Region and Social Determiners

Select a country or region other than the United States to serve as the focus of your entire project. (To keep the work manageable, a region would consist of two or three adjacent countries such as Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.) In your Region and Social Determiners paper:

1- Analyze the social determiners of health for the region. Be sure to include the following in your discussion:

-Levels of wealth or poverty.

-Educational attainment and availability of schools.

-Cultural beliefs and how they might impact women's rights and access to education for girls.

-Access to public health.

-Quality of housing and sewage disposal.

-Access to food and shelter.

2- Summarize the public health status for the region, including an analysis of the impact of social determiners.

3- Describe any physical, psychological, or environmental factors crossing international boundaries that impact public health practice in your region. Include things such as:

-Climate.

-Access to drinkable water.

-Farmland available to feed the local culture.

-Cultural prejudices (including those that might interfere with admitting to or getting help for a disease like HIV/AIDS).

-Potential psychological challenges due to ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.

-Diseases influenced by environmental conditions.

4- Examine the relationship among global, national, and local conditions as it relates to your selected region.

5- Identify a particular public health issue in the region as the focus of your project.

6- Examine the impact of social determiners on the health issue.

7- Describe how the interrelationship and interdependence of domestic and global public health systems affect the issue.