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Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health - Coggle Diagram
Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health
Social Systems and how they affect public health
Enforcing self control patterns: rules and regulations can improve the overall health of a population.
Provide opportunities to engage in healthy behavior: Having access to things like a public gym encourages people to work out, improving the population health
Shape norms: everyone else is being unsafe/unhealthy so Its okay for me to also.
Encouraging healthy coping strategies
Socioeconomics
While greater socioeconomic status does not correlate to longer life span, it does correlate with access to things like better healthcare, living conditions, food, environments, and healthy occupations.
Culture
Different cultures have different responses to health issues and habits that can cause issues
Religion
Religion may restrict people from getting the treatment that would technically be most effective
Change in Individual behavior
In recent years many healthy behaviors have decreased in favor of unhealthy ones.
There is hope because behavior can be changed and encouraged.
Stages of change model
Preparation: Plan and set goals for how to make the change
Action: positive feedback for change
Contemplation: Assess pros and cons of change
Maintenance: set long term goals and methods
Pre-contemplation: Assessing readiness for change
Social Factors significantly impact health outcomes
healthcare alone cannot close the gap in health inequalities.
To solve this, we must address social determinants and doctors need to advocate for policies that take care of these social issues.