Chapter 4 Socioeconomic Determinants of Health

Chapter 4 Socioeconomic Determinants of Health

1. Define the social determinants of health. Select two determinants and explain how it affects their health both in a positive and negative.

2. What are the two most common ways of measuring the economic status of a household?

3. Percentage of the population living on less than ____per day, the international poverty line, between _____ and _____.

4. Poverty is often linked to a ___living environment

5. Men, who do manual labor are more likely than nonmanual workers to die from?

6. Compare the following countries: India, Kenya, and Sierra Leone and explain the percentage of children born at a health facility, by the educational level of the mother.

7. Explain the “Big Mac Index”.

8. Explain how immigrants may experience an increase in access to health care when they move from a country with poor health infrastructure.

9. Prisoners are entitled to all ______________ human rights, and need to be protected from medical neglect, starvation, abuse, forced medical experimentation, and other civil rights violations.