.png){kind=icon}
Recommended Readings
Fisher, Sylvia K., Jeffery M. Poirier, and Gary M. Blau. 2012. Improving Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes for LGBT Youth: A Guide for Professionals. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks Publishing. This book offers recommended practices, interventions, and policies for professionals, policymakers, program developers, and school psychologists for dealing with LGBTQ+ youth, with the aim of lessening their likelihood of developing mental illnesses.
Fitzpatrick, Kevin. 2013. Poverty and Health: A Crisis among America’s Most Vulnerable. Westport, CT: Praeger. This book examines the physical health conditions of low-income and no-income men, women, and children in the United States, paying particular attention to issues of healthcare delivery, access, and disparities among the poor.
Kronefeld, Jennie J. 2013. Social Determinants, Health Disparities and Linkages to Health and Health Care. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This book examines social determinants and social inequalities of health and healthcare while encompassing the perspectives of patients, caregivers, and providers of care.
Parkes, M.W. and B. Poland (lead authors). 2018. “Ecological Determinants of Health in Public Health Education in Canada: A Scan of Needs, Challenges and Assets.” Ecological Determinants Group on Education, June (https://www.cpha.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/about/cmte/EDGE-scan-needs-challenges-assets-2018-final.pdf). This report intends to promote the incorporation of ecological determinants of health into public health training and education in the Canadian context.
Smylie, Janet, Michelle Firestone, Michelle Spiller, and Tungasuvvingat Inuit. 2018. “Our Health Counts: Population-Based Measures of Urban Inuit Health Determinants, Health Status, and Health Care Access.” Canadian Journal of Public Health 109:662–70. Unlike most surveys of Inuit health, this research studies urban Inuit in Ottawa. It finds a familiar pattern of poor living conditions, poor health, and poor healthcare.
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. 2012. “Social Determinants of Health and Well-being among Young People: Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children: International Report from the 2009/2010 Survey” (http://www.euro.who.int/en/publications/abstracts/social-determinants-of-health-and-well-being-among-young-people.-health-behaviour-in-school-aged-children-hbsc-study). This report studies the impact of social and demographic factors on the health of young people in 43 counties across Europe and North America.
Recommended Websites
Canada Without Poverty
Canada Without Poverty is a federally incorporated, not-for-profit charitable organization with the goal of combating and erasing poverty in Canada by producing new knowledge and influencing public policy. This website contains information and links to publications on the health effects correlated with living in poverty.
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA): Ontario: “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Identified People and Mental Health”
CMHA is an initiative that aims to promote equal access to mental health services and reduce mental health inequalities. This site includes information on the health of the LGBTQ+ community, methods to promote the mental health of LGBTQ+ individuals, and information for health providers to better service LGBTQ+ individuals.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The CDC is dedicated to promoting health and improving quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. They have various publications that address social determinants on health, including the white paper, which addresses health disparities and aims to increase health equity.
National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCAH)
www.nccih.ca/28/Social_Determinants.nccah
The NCCAH was established by the Government of Canada with the aim of making the public healthcare system more responsive to the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples while addressing issues facing Indigenous health. This organization strongly focuses on social determinants of health, such as poverty, standard housing, and barriers to education caused by changes in culture, languages, land rights, and self-determination within the Indigenous community due to colonization.
Public Health Agency of Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada’s website includes a page on social determinants of health. This website includes 12 key determinants, including income/social status, social support networks, education, employment, social environments, physical environments, and gender and its impact on health.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action
https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
The commission made numerous calls for action in respect to health. This includes calls for recognition of government responsibility, establishment of measurable health goals, recognition of the need to respect the distinct health needs of the Indigenous Peoples, provision of sustainable funding for Indigenous healing centres, and recognition of the value of Indigenous healing practices.
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.int/social_determinants/en
The WHO is an organization within the United Nations responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, influencing health research, setting standards, sharing policy alternatives, and overseeing and assessing health trends. The WHO also publishes information on social determinants of health.
Recommended Films
Forever Young. 2017. Produced by the CBC. Canada (https://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/episodes/forever-young). This film challenges viewers to rethink how we view life, aging, and death. It visits Okinawa, Japan, and the island of Sardinia, examples of the world’s “Blue Zones,” which are geographic regions with extremely long life expectancies that are leaving demographers stumped.
One Nation Under Stress. 2019. Produced by HBO. United States. In this film, Dr Sanjay Gupta explores the link between stress and life expectancy in the United States. Life expectancy in the States continues to decrease and it is now shorter than all other major developed nations.
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? 2007. Produced by California Newsreel. United States: Vital Pictures Inc. This four-hour PBS documentary examines the social determinants of health, especially race, in creating health inequalities and health disparities. It examines how inequalities in housing, wealth, jobs, and education can translate into bad health.