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🧭 Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
These are the non-medical factors that affect a person’s health and well-being.
They include:
- 🏠 Housing (safe vs overcrowded or unstable)
- 💰 Income & employment
- 🎓 Education
- 🍎 Access to food
- 🏥 Healthcare access
- 🌍 Neighborhood & environment
- 🤝 Social support networks
👉 In simple terms: where you are born, live, and work strongly shapes how healthy you are.
🔗 Intersectionality
Intersectionality is the idea that different parts of a person’s identity overlap and can affect their experiences—especially with inequality or health.
These identities include:
- Gender
- Race/ethnicity
- Income level
- Disability
- Age
- Immigration status
👉 The key idea:
People don’t experience health risks in isolation—multiple factors combine.
🧠 How they connect
When you combine both concepts:
- A low-income woman of a minority group may face multiple overlapping barriers
- These barriers can increase health risks more than any single factor alone
- Health outcomes are shaped by systems and social structures, not just biology
🏥 Simple example
Two people may have the same disease, but:
- One has insurance, stable housing, and access to care → better outcome
- The other lacks transport, money, and support → worse outcome
That difference is explained by social determinants + intersectionality
📌 Simple takeaway
- SDOH = external conditions affecting health
- Intersectionality = how overlapping identities shape those effects
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