Which social determinants of health have the greatest impact on health outcomes in developing countries?
The World Health Organization describes that the social determinants of health include “wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life”, wider to the conditions in which people are born, work, grow, and live. As Cynthia wrote on her post, it would be obvious to incline towards the most basic needs of humans such as access to clean water, but in my opinion what has the greatest impact on health outcomes in developing and developed countries are the wider set forces and systems shaping the conditions that the WHO describes. The economic policies, the social norms and policies, the political systems, and development agendas …show more content…
What do you think should be done to reduce the disparities?
Cuba is a good example of a country where health is a human and constitutional right, but there are still inequities between specific groups. According to this week’s lecture 4, the two major principles on this country’s health care system are equity and free access to health care for all (Diamond, n.d.), but also described on this lecture, some health facilities are only used by tourists who pay for these services as well as local high rank workers, who use these special facilities for free. Even though Cuba has one of the most effective health systems in the world, there are some inequities as the previously described. Cuba is a poor country with a gross domestic product less than $48 billion dollars annually (Keck 2012). Because the limited resources that this country has, modernization of facilities such as hospitals has been slowed, the salaries of health worker remain low, and the shipment or acquisition of materials and equipments is always behind schedule. The current inequalities are related to this economic problem since some resources are just for tourists and high rank workers from the government. Some of the implications of this problem is that many health worker need to have a second job based on their …show more content…
Cultures for effective learning. In: Vincent C, ed. Clinical risk management. London: BMJ Books: 355–68.
What is the role of health care systems to better educate people about nutrition and cooking and eating practices? What social policies are needed to ensure people have equitable access to fresh and healthy food products? And finally, even with improved education and access, how can people’s cultural practices be
The World Health Organization describes that the social determinants of health include “wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life”, wider to the conditions in which people are born, work, grow, and live. As Cynthia wrote on her post, it would be obvious to incline towards the most basic needs of humans such as access to clean water, but in my opinion what has the greatest impact on health outcomes in developing and developed countries are the wider set forces and systems shaping the conditions that the WHO describes. The economic policies, the social norms and policies, the political systems, and development agendas …show more content…
What do you think should be done to reduce the disparities?
Cuba is a good example of a country where health is a human and constitutional right, but there are still inequities between specific groups. According to this week’s lecture 4, the two major principles on this country’s health care system are equity and free access to health care for all (Diamond, n.d.), but also described on this lecture, some health facilities are only used by tourists who pay for these services as well as local high rank workers, who use these special facilities for free. Even though Cuba has one of the most effective health systems in the world, there are some inequities as the previously described. Cuba is a poor country with a gross domestic product less than $48 billion dollars annually (Keck 2012). Because the limited resources that this country has, modernization of facilities such as hospitals has been slowed, the salaries of health worker remain low, and the shipment or acquisition of materials and equipments is always behind schedule. The current inequalities are related to this economic problem since some resources are just for tourists and high rank workers from the government. Some of the implications of this problem is that many health worker need to have a second job based on their …show more content…
Cultures for effective learning. In: Vincent C, ed. Clinical risk management. London: BMJ Books: 355–68.
What is the role of health care systems to better educate people about nutrition and cooking and eating practices? What social policies are needed to ensure people have equitable access to fresh and healthy food products? And finally, even with improved education and access, how can people’s cultural practices be