Question

Review the Healthy People 2020 determinants of health; select two; and determine how these determinants would affect an/or one of the populations - an infant, an adolescent, an adult with disabilities, and a frail elderly person.

Answer 1

These five key areas (determinants) include:

• Economic Stability
• Education
• Social and Community Context
• Health and Health Care
• Neighborhood and Built Environment

Each of these five determinant areas reflects a number of key issues that make up the underlying factors in the arena of SDOH.

Economic Stability

• Employment
• Food Insecurity
• Housing Instability
• Poverty

Education

• Early Childhood Education and Development
• Enrollment in Higher Education
• High School Graduation
• Language and Literacy

Social and Community Context

• Civic Participation
• Discrimination
• Incarceration
• Social Cohesion

Health and Health Care

• Access to Health Care
• Access to Primary Care
• Health Literacy

Neighborhood and Built Environment

• Access to Foods that Support Healthy Eating Patterns
• Crime and Violence
• Environmental Conditions
• Quality of Housing

How this affects population

Infants

Economic stability

Without proper economic stability there will not be asses to enough nutrition and will lead to different diseases

Health and health care

Asses to health care will help to avoid neonatal infection and many other disease condition and will help to become a healthy individual

Adolescent

Economic stability

Economic stability will bring about good food and good education facilities that will lead to a good literate population

Health care

Better health care facility will help to take vaccine and treat disease condition in an effective manner an reduce. Spread of disease

An adult with disabilities

Economic stability

If economic stability and employment of these people occur them it will lead to the development of the population.

Health care

Provide the best care to the disable will help him leave a peaceful life . providing aids to overcome his disabilities is important

A frail elderly person

Economic stability

It will lead to better life a better fools at old age.when economic stability comes the housing stability will come and this will help to reduce the burden ans reduce risk for accident like falls in elderly

Health care

With the development of healthcare it will lead to betterment of his condition.Better facilities can be utilised