Race, or more accurately racism (systemic, institutional and individual/everyday discrimination based on race), is well known as one of the social determinants of health (SDOH). Numerous studies show that racism-related stress is a powerful predictor of health and social outcomes. In this editorial we describe how racism and colonialism are strong determinants of cardiovascular disease.We inclu...

OBJECTIVE to review the social determinants of health more characteristic of the child and adolescents of immigrants, by reviewing the literature and assess its effect on nutritional status. METHODS a systematic review was performed using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in PubMed (Medline) and The Cochrane Library, in order to identify undetected studies; articles bibliographic lists were exa...

The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) theory and life course theory (LCT) are emerging fields of research that have significant implications for the public health and health promotion professions. Using a DOHaD/LCT perspective, social determinants of health (SDH) take on new critical meaning by which health promotion professionals can implement DOHaD/LCT guided interventions, ...

INTRODUCTION We developed screening criteria to identify population health interventions with an equity focus for inclusion on the Public Health Agency of Canada's Canadian Best Practices Portal. We applied them to the area of "healthy weights," specifically, obesity prevention. METHODS We conducted a review of the literature and obtained input from expert external reviewers on changes to mid...

The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health (CRCAIH) was established in September 2012 as a unifying structure to bring together tribal communities and health researchers across South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota to address American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) health disparities. CRCAIH is based on the core values of transdisciplinary research, sustainability and tribal ...

BACKGROUND In Germany, educational deficits or potential benefits involved in global health education have not been analysed till now. OBJECTIVE We assess the importance medical students place on learning about social determinants of health (SDH) and assess their knowledge of global health topics in relation to (i) mobility patterns, their education in (ii) tropical medicine or (iii) global h...

According to World Health Organization (WHO), the Social Determinants of (SDH) have an important influence on health inequities – unfair and avoidable differences in status seen within between countries. In countries at all levels income, illness follow a social gradient: lower socioeconomic position, worse health. The main objective this paper is understand these determinants that are prevaili...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the perception of lay people regarding determinants of health at global level and factors affecting it. methods: data was collected from international social survey program (issp) and world bank website. multilevel regression analysis was done and lay people’s perception regarding health behavior, environment, poverty and genes as health determinants was...

Health inequality exists in this world, across, within, and between every society and in every State. These inequalities manifest themselves in a number of ways, including but not limited to malnutrition levels, chronic diseases such as diabetes, access to fresh foods, rates of incarceration, and exposure to environmental hazards. There is an association between a lower Socio-Economic Status (S...