Public Health Action Model for Cancer Survivorship
In the Caribbean, colonialism and inequality mean hurricanes hit harder
Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on September 19. The next day, in Puerto Rico, NPR reported via member station WRTU in San Juan that “Most of the island is without power…or water.” Among the Caribbean islands impacted by both deadly storms are Puerto Rico, St Kitts, Tortola and Barbuda. In this region, disaster damages are frequently amplified by needlessly protracted and incomplete recoveries. Nor were the effects of a 7 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti in 2010 limited to killing some 150,000 people. These are not isolated instances of random bad luck. Risk, vulnerability and poverty The country is among the Western Hemisphere’s poorest in large part because of imperialism. Geography and gender No place for politics
Social vulnerability from a social ecology perspective: a cohort study of older adults from the National Population Health Survey of Canada | BMC Geriatrics | Full Text
We identified seven dimensions of social vulnerability (self-esteem, sense of control, living situation, social support, engagement, relations with others, and neighbourhood SES) in a sample of 2740 older Canadians and situated them within a social ecology framework of social vulnerability. The low percentage of variance explained by the seven dimensions is a limitation of our study and reflects the challenge of parsing many very different contributing factors to overall social vulnerability (from self esteem to SES to social supports and engagement) into distinct domains. As a result, one important interpretation of our findings is that a deficit accumulation approach, or social vulnerability index, is more appropriate for the conceptualization and study of social vulnerability. Nevertheless, our attempt at factor analysis does illustrate that inter-relationships between the social variables that contribute to overall social vulnerability have complex inter-connections.
Social Ecological Model Offers New Approach to Public Health | The Borgen Project
People do not act in isolation, which is why it is important to understand the ways they interact with their communities and environments, in order to determine why they do what they do. One way of measuring these networks of interactions is the Social Ecological Model. This model, developed by sociologists in the 1970s, studies how behaviors form based on characteristics of individuals, communities, nations and levels in between. In examining these intervals and how they interact and overlap, public health experts can develop strategies to promote wellbeing in the U.S. and abroad. The Social Ecological Model is broad in scope. Different organizations use variations of the Social Ecological Model organizational hierarchies in a given society. Individual: An individual’s various traits and identities make up this level of the Social Ecological Model. The Social Ecological Model is useful in the creation of sustainable solutions for at-risk individuals and societies. – Sabine Poux
Multilevel Interventions To Address Health Disparities Show Promise In Improving Population Health
Understanding Health and Its Determinants - Improving Health in the Community - NCBI Bookshelf
Ecological Model
What makes some students, faculty, and staff healthy and others unhealthy? How can we create a campus community in which everyone has a chance to be healthy and live long, healthy lives? Healthy Campus 2020 explores these questions by emphasizing an ecological approach to improve student, faculty, and staff health. An ecological approach focuses on both population-level and individual-level determinants of health and interventions. It considers issues that are community-based and not just individually focused (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators [NASPA], 2004, p. 3). Campus ecology identifies environmental factors and influences, which interact and affect individual behavior. Because significant and dynamic interrelationships exist among these different levels of health determinants, interventions are most likely to be effective when they address determinants at all levels. Public policy — Local, state, national, and global laws and policies. Ecological Approach
Developing a Multilevel Approach to Improving Population Health
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, yet heart disease is largely preventable through healthful lifestyle practices. Effective prevention requires more than just educating people on how they can live healthier lifestyles; it’s critical for a community to support its citizens in their efforts to do so. Inspired by this, the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF), Allina Health, New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC), and the rural community of New Ulm, Minnesota, teamed up to create Hearts Beat Back: The Heart of New Ulm Project (HONU). This population-based prevention demonstration project aims to reduce heart attacks and heart disease risk factors over 10 years among the New Ulm population. Recognizing the complex web of personal, institutional, and societal factors that influence an individual’s heart health, HONU leaders implemented a multilevel population health strategy. Key aspects of this strategy included: Health outcomes
Reframing inequality? The health inequalities turn as a dangerous frame shift | Journal of Public Health
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Multi-level Modeling | The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph
It is well known that there are substantial area variations in mortality rates in the U.S. However, the presence of area differences in mortality does not necessarily mean that area matters. Area variations in mortality can be observed due to a number of reasons some of which may be due to characteristics that relate to areas and others that relate to the characteristics of the individuals who live in these areas. Disentangling the two sources of variation (e.g.: individual and area) in mortality is therefore vital to distinguishing area differences from the difference that area makes. Such an approach to examining area variations in mortality, consequently, entails describing the patterning and causes in mortality variations, which in turn, requires answering the following empirical questions preferably in a sequential manner. Before we outline the questions, it is worth asking what role could places or areas play in influencing mortality (and indeed other health outcomes). Hox J.
