Universal Health

What are social determinants of health? How do social determinants of health contribute to the development of illness? What is a communicable disease chain? Are there steps that a nurse can take to break a link within the communicable disease chain? Give a specific example.

Readings within your text covering international/global health and the following websites will assist you in answering these questions:

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global Health website: http://www.cdc.gov/cogh/index.htm
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Global Health website: http://www.globalhealth.gov/index.html
Families USA – Why Global Health Matters—Here and Abroad website: http://www.familiesusa.org/
World Health Organization (WHO) website: http://www.who.int

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The social determinants of health are simply the conditions that individuals are born, grow, age, live and work in. These circumstances are usually shaped by the distribution of resources, power and money at the local, national and global levels (Marmot & Wilkinson, 2005). These determinants of health are the major causes of the unfair health inequities in the ..

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