Sentences with phrase «critical social determinant»

In fact, mental illness is a critical social determinant of health.

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These life skills should not be approached from the point of view of the individualisation of health risks; on the contrary, they include critical stances aimed at proactively deconstructing the social determinants that have a negative effect on public health.

2 Mitigating the effect of harmful social determinants is critical for promoting the optimal health and development of children throughout their life span.

He explored the critical role of social justice, social and cultural determinants of health and increasing the numbers of Native Hawaiian medical practitioners in achieving «Mauli Ola» or optimal health and wellbeing for all Native Hawaiians.

Racism is considered to be critical to closing the health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, as a key social determinant of health, which can lead to other social problems.

The Communique did not focus on the social and economic determinants of health for people with disability, despite recognition of the critical importance of this in the opening and closing sessions of the Summit.

The Minister, who this year became Australia's first Indigenous member of a Federal Ministry, told the conference the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and he believed the subsequent Implementation Plan has «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

It illustrates the critical importance of tackling poverty, homelessness, violence against women, and other social determinants of health (without actually once mentioning this term, SDOH, although there is a section on the social determinants of incarceration).

Wyatt said the acknowledgement of racism as a critical component for health in the National Health Plan was a «huge step forward» and said he was delighted the Implementation Plan had «sown seeds to tackle social and cultural determinants of health», which he said contributed to 31 per cent of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

[135] The Campaign Steering Committee is of the view that personal safety and freedom from abuse are a critical determinant of the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.