Many
important social determinants of health also were spotlighted, including fair funding for public education, support for TAFE and apprenticeships, equality for women and the need for action on family violence.
Education and the economic stability that it can bring are
important social determinants of health.
«Our findings offer new evidence for a potentially
important social determinant of health that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
Not exact matches
Centered around the child and family's
health and wellbeing, Bubup Wilam is making positive changes in the outcomes
of those engaged at the service through self determination and empowerment —
important positive
social determinants of health.
Similar initiatives are underway in nursing, including innovative programs that are graduating new cohorts
of Indigenous midwives.25 In addition, the ACCHSs have always had a major role in Aboriginal
health worker (AHW) training, and the introduction
of national AHW registration will standardise the quality
of this
important component
of the
health workforce.26 The services» ability to deal with the impact
of social determinants and lower
health literacy is due, in part, to ACCHSs being significant providers
of Aboriginal employment and training.
Lisa Briggs: The
Social and Cultural
Determinants of Health are
important, and these are a few underpinning examples: