249974 Determinants of Health: A Framework for Reaching Healthy People 2020 Goals

Monday, October 31, 2011: 6:37 PM

Kimber Wukitsch, MPH , Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
Determinants of health include the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. Policymaking, social factors, health services, individual behavior, and biology/genetics are broad factors that impact both individual and population health. Healthy People 2020 emphasizes an ecological approach to disease prevention and health promotion, which focuses on both individual-level and population-level determinants of health and interventions. This presentation illustrates the concept of health determinants, offers examples of interventions that address determinants of health, and discusses how Healthy People 2020 is exploring these factors.

Learning Areas:
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related public policy
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. The interrelationships among these factors determine individual and population health. Discuss examples of interventions that could address more than one health determinant. Interventions that target multiple determinants of health are most likely to be effective.

Keywords: Health Disparities, Health Objectives

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to present because I oversaw the development of the media submission, and am Program Manager of HealthyPeople.gov.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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