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Public Health 302

This guide is to work alongside and guide students through the research journal for students enrolled in Public Health 302

The Five Key Determinants

A circle of circles showing the 5 main social indicators of health: Neighborhood and built environment, health and healthcare, social and community context, education, and economic stability.

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
This organizing framework was developed by a US government program called Healthy People 2020. It has been used to establish an initial set of objectives for the topic area as well as to identify existing Healthy People objectives (i.e., in other topic areas) that are complementary and highly relevant to social determinants. It is anticipated that additional objectives will continue to be developed throughout the decade.
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