LibGuides: Antiracism Resource Guide: Social Determinants of Health

Public Health

Racism Is a Health Crisis. Why Aren’t We Treating It Like One?
By Daniel Reynolds, June 23, 2020.

This resource includes comments from former OSU President Drake and Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, chair of the department of family medicine at the Medical Center. This posting highlights the “growing body of research confirming that racism, in addition to being a societal ill, is indeed a public health crisis, one that has been hard to ignore with the arrival of COVID-19”.

American Public Health Association: Racism and Health
The APHA provides suggested readings, tools, and offers webinars related to racial equity.
Ted Talk: How racism makes us sick
Public health sociologist, David R. Williams, presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system and offers methods for measuring the impact of racial discrimination on health care.

Social Determinants of Health

World Health Organization: Social Determinants of Health
WHO resources including publications, videos, and learning resources are provided to raise awareness of and provide insight into the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) in order to reduce international health inequities.
MedEdPortal: Adverse Childhood Experiences: A case-based workshop introducing medical students to trauma-informed care
This educational program on ACEs is valuable for enhancing awareness among future physicians and offering an introduction to evidence-based interventions that mitigate the long-lasting physical, psychological, and social effects of trauma. Recommended for inclusion in health equity curricula.
TED Talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Nadine Burke Harris, MD, discusses the ACEs study and how childhood trauma unfolds across a lifetime, increasing the risk for heart disease and lung cancer.
Ted Talk: Why your doctor should care about social justice
Mary Bassett, MD, director of Harvard’s Center for Health and Human Rights, speaks out in support of equitable health care in the U.S.
American Medical Association (AMA): Social Determinants of Health
Public and population health and health equities are covered in this continuing series of online resources from the AMA.

A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health by Committee on Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
ISBN: 9780309392624
Publication Date: 2016-11-14
A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health also puts forth a conceptual model for the framework (TM)s use with the goal of helping stakeholder groups envision ways in which organizations, education, and communities can come together to address health inequalities.
The Social Determinants of Health by Kathryn Strother Ratcliff
ISBN: 9781509504329
Publication Date: 2017-09-18
Each chapter explains how the policies, politics, and power behind corporate and governmental decisions and actions produce unhealthy circumstances of living, and demonstrates that putting profit and politics over people is unhealthy and unsustainable. While the book examines how these unhealthy conditions of life generate significant class and ethnic health disparities, the focus is on everyone's health. Arguing that none of us should be placed in health-threatening situations that could have been prevented, Ratcliff's provocative analysis uses social justice and human rights lenses to guide the discussion "upstream," toward possible changes that should produce a healthier world for us all.