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CURATED CONTENT MHST 601

Curated jewels to facilitate learnings in this course

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Unit 3 Understanding Health and Determinants of Health

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Andermann, A. (2016). Taking action on the social determinants of health in clinical practice: A framework for health professionals. Canadian Medical Association Journal,188(17–18). https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160177

  • This article discusses how health professionals can incorporate specific actions within their clinical practice to address the social determinants of health.

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Bradley, K. L., Goetz, T., & Viswanathan, S. (2018). Toward a Contemporary Definition of Health. Military Medicine, 183(suppl_3), 204–207. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usy213

  • The concept of health is redefined to include disability and disease. The authors also discuss how health is a dynamic state. 

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Brook, R. H. (2017). Should the Definition of Health Include a Measure of Tolerance? JAMA, 317(6), 585.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.14372

  • The author expands on the WHO’s definition of health to include acceptance and tolerance, and discuss how hate and racism can make a population unhealthy.  

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​Government of Canada. (n.d.). Social determinants of health and health inequalities. 

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/population-health/what-determines-health.html

  • Canadian Federal website discussing the social determinants of health, health inequalities and interventions in place to support health equalities in Canada.

 

Huber, M., Knottnerus, J. A., Green, L., Horst, H., Jadad, A. R., Kromhout, D., Leonard, B., Lorig, K., Loureiro, M. I., van der Meer, J. W., Schnabel, P., Smith, R., van Weel, C., & Smid, H. (2011). How should we define health? British Medical Journal, 343(7817), 235-237. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4163

  • A discussion on the WHO's definition of health and its limitations. Also, the concept of adding adapting and self-managing to the WHO's definition of health is approached. 

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Sartorius, N. (2006). The meanings of health and its promotion. Croatian Medical Journal, 47(4), 662–664. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2080455/

  • This article discusses the definition of health as per the WHO and how it has changed in order to reflect that a healthy life can also include disease.  

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Thornton, R. L., Glover, C. M., Cené, C. W., Glik, D. C., Henderson, J. A., & Williams, D. R. (2016). Evaluating Strategies For Reducing Health Disparities By Addressing The Social Determinants Of Health. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 35(8), 1416–1423. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1357

  • Proposed interventions  for education, community development, housing and income enhancement, focusing on the social determinants of health to improve health and reduce health disparities.

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