The Social Determinants of Health: How the Context in Which We Live Impacts Health

1. The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are defined as the conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

a) True
b) False

2. Social Determinants of Health influence a person’s morbidity, heath status, and functional limitations.

a) True
b) False

3. Some social determinants that influence health care include: health coverage, provider availability, quality of care and provider linguistic and cultural competency.

a) True
b) False

4. Some examples of Social Determinants of Health include which of the following:

a) Food/Nutrition security
b) Neighborhood and build environment
c) Educational attainment and access
d) Transportation
e) All of the above

5. Economic stability is influenced by employment, income, debt, medical expenses and support.

a) True
b) False

6. Chronic stress and toxic stress are two physiological impacts on a person’s health as a result of their exposure to different social determinants of health.

a) True
b) False

7. Intergenerational trauma can influence a patient’s susceptibility to disease, including diabetes, due to the social determinants involved around it.

a) True
b) False

8. The following is/are affective physiological response(s) to acute stress:

a) emotion
b) motivation
c) regulation
d) All of the above

9. Trauma Informed Care is an example of an upstream intervention to help educate professionals on the influences of social determinants that their patients may face.

a) True
b) False