LibGuides: Global Health: Social Determinants

Databases

CINAHL PLUS (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the standard, essential comprehensive index to nursing articles, containing cover-to-cover current full text of more than 400 of the top journals it indexes. It covers alternative and occupational therapy as well. CINAHL also includes some e-books and short monographs, as well as providing more than half a million historical full-text articles dating back to 1937. CINAHL uses a controlled subject vocabulary for better search results. Evidence-based Care Sheets, Quick Lessons, and Continuing Education Units augment the student experience. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
MEDLINE 2007 - present (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
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References and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics

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CDC: Social Determinants of Health The social determinants of health are the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps (CHR&R) CHR&R allows lnationwide comparison of counties with similar populations based on key demographic, social, and economic indicators.

HealthyPeople.Gov: Social Determinants of Health Healthy People 2020 highlights the importance of addressing the social determinants of health by including “Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all” as one of the four overarching goals for the decade. This emphasis is shared by the World Health Organization, whose Commission on Social Determinants of Health in 2008 published the report, Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. The emphasis is also shared by other U.S. health initiatives such as the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities and the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy.

World Health Organization Social determinants of health The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels.

Environmental Health Section of American Public Health Association APHA promotes programs and strategies that create healthy communities and health equity by addressing the social determinants of health.