Description
This unit explores economic stability as a social determinant of health, focusing on how financial factors like income, employment, and financial security impact health outcomes. You’ll examine the link between economic stability and access to essential needs such as housing, food, and healthcare. Through interactive activies and discussions, you’ll gain insights into how economic challenges contribute to health disparities and explore potential solutions to improve economic stability and health equity.
Objectives
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Understanding how socioeconomic status affects health
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Explore how poverty affects decision making and health outcomes.
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Understand how assets can be seen as stressor or resource.
Resources
- Video: Social Determinants of Health - Economic Stability - Share video with students to provide foundational information and context for students.
- Lesson Outline - Relates to the presentation "Understanding Economic Stability". There are a number of discussions included.
- Presentation: Understanding Economic Stability
Activity Options
- Interactive Website Lesson Outline: Exploring Poverty and Decision-Making Through "Spent"
- Inquiry Worksheet and Outline: Financial Health and Its Impact on Physical Health
- Inquiry Worksheet and Outline: Exploring Poverty and its Impact on Health
- Economic Worksheet and Outline: Mapping Community Assets