Race and Health Outcomes PDF

Race is not based in biology but constructed by society (migration, mixing, mingling) languages...

Race is not based in biology but constructed by society (migration, mixing, mingling) languages appearance food Ethic identity: people share --> society may allocate valued resources religion cultural traits: based on this construct Race and ethnicity dress meaningful symbols have a common ancestral homeland --> Society may allocate valued resources based on this construct Race + ethnicity --> affect health outcomes = media of culture and society stress reduction nutrition helping others in distress sleep difficulties depression and anxiety Descending order of interst of physical activity students: sexual assault violence prevention sexually transmitted disease (STDs) tobaco use pregnancy prevention cold/flu/sore throats alcohol-impaired drives 1/3 traffic fatalities drugs (legal + illegal): 16% SAMHSA 30% 18-35 years old had co-occurring  substances abuse disorder WHO: environmental factors Blue line or Red line + yellow line: seven + > years of account for 24% of global disease living in the life expectancy burden and 23% of all deaths center of town identifying the roots of problems and potential points of intervention ex: Societal --> Community --> Relationship --> Individual ecological model look at the outer layers of a problems and work on solution to these New policies and structural interventions--> more sustainable than individual interventions Health communication strategies (61) technique from engineering used to analyze what went wrong in a disaster elimanating intravenous found in: healthcare settings line infection Root cause analysis drug delivery young adults used to prevent disasters suicide drug overdose "The people and places model of framework developed to diagram the process of communication in terms of social change" potential impact within an ecological model What about the people and what about the places, needs to be happening for all to be healthy? The people and places forces: affect people at individual, social framework (PPF) asks: people fields of influence networks or community  linked to a higher administrative level place flieds of influence (state, nation, world) suggest that: business-to-business mainly affect place fields of approaches and policy advocacy influence promote voluntary behavior change based on: information, motivation, Social marketing and health self-efficacy, other psychological communication processess and more effective at changing people fields can use information to develop strategy health communicator: will target the desired ecological levels public health had enormous impact on population health 19th century through infection control power of technology and medicine to improve health 20th century through medical treatment health communication --> affects individual knowledge, 21st century behavior