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African Nova Scotian Health Resource

Questions to Consider - Health Equity

  • What are health equities?
  • What are health disparities? 
  • What kinds of political decisions affect health? Can you name them and how they affect health?
  • What are some factors that contribute to health disparities?
  • What are some groups of people that are more likely than others to be affected by health disparities?
  • What kinds of institutional or social changes are needed to tackle health disparities? 

Health Equity Overview

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Questions to Consider - Social Determinants of Health

  • What drives health inequities? How do they affect health?
  • Can you name a social factor that affects health?
  • Do the social determinants of the past affect the present?
  • Should one consider sociological factors when discussing health policy?

Social Determinants of Health Overview

We give credit to the University of Maryland’s Project SHARE for the content of this slideshow which can be found here: https://bit.ly/2KNpywy. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Health Disparities/Inequalities

Social Determinants