Surveillance Systems that Include Deprivation Indices & Social Determinants of Health

Surveillance Systems that Include Deprivation Indices & Social Determinants of Health

Objective This roundtable will provide a hands-on workshop to learn about three surveillance systems developed and used by the Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Team at KFL&A Public Health. It will be an opportunity to address issues relevant to syndromic surveillance including: equity, emergency response, health preparedness, and health systems management. Additionally, participants ...

Social Determinants Affecting Oral Health of School Children in Hamadan

Background & objectives: Dental caries is one of the most common chronic diseases and affected by many determinants identified as social inequalities. So, this study explored how social determinants of health had impacts on dental health in school children of Hamadan. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted based on data related to the examination of 14858 students in Hamadan in 2016...

The Social Determinants of Health Related to Diabetes Control–Yazd

Objective: Social determinant of health (SDH) are different from medical care and services. These factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. Due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in Yazd, and assuming the effect of SDH, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

Systems change for the social determinants of health

BACKGROUND Inequalities in the distribution of the social determinants of health are now a widely recognised problem, seen as requiring immediate and significant action (CSDH. Closing the Gap in a Generation. Geneva: WHO; 2008; Marmot M. Fair Society, Healthy Lives: The Marmot Review. Strategic Review of Health Inequalitites in England Post-2010. London; 2010). Despite recommendations for actio...

social determinants of INDIGENOUS HEALTH