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Unit 3: Resilience as a community and global resource
Quick questions on Determinants of health and community resilience for QCE Health Unit 3
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What are social determinants?Show answer
Social determinants are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. Education level, social connectedness, employment, housing security and access to health services all shape how readily a community can draw on resilience. A community with dense social networks, trusted local organisations and good service access has more protective factors to call on when a shock (such as a health crisis or a road trauma cluster) hits.
What are economic determinants?Show answer
Income and socioeconomic status are among the strongest predictors of health outcomes. Lower income reduces access to nutritious food, safe housing, transport and preventive care. At the community level, economic disadvantage concentrates risk factors and thins out the resources that build collective resilience, which is why disadvantaged areas often carry a higher burden of chronic disease and injury.
What are cultural determinants?Show answer
Cultural identity, connection to community and culturally safe services are protective factors, especially for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Culture can be a powerful resilience resource when services respect and build on it, and a barrier to health when services are not culturally safe.
What is using determinants in a health inquiry?Show answer
When you investigate a priority issue, you use the determinants as your analytical frame: identify the issue, gather population data, identify which determinants are driving the trend, then target action at the determinants you can actually shift. This is what separates an analytical response from a descriptive one. Naming five determinants is descriptive; showing that two of them are the binding constraint on a specific community's resilience is analytical and earns the higher criteria band.
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