Social Determinant Assignment

Social Determinants of Health Work Sheet

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1. What is the zip code and name of the geographic area you are reviewing? (no citation needed)

2. Which determinants affect the largest number of people in your community? Must fill in all 3 areas. (See Table 3.1 Applying Assessment Methods to Different Types of Social determinants, page 46 in the CDC workbook https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/programs/healthycommunitiesprogram/tools/pdf/sdoh-workbook.pdf.)

Social –

Economic -

Environment -

3. Which social determinants identified in Question 2 do you think are most important to your community?

4. Why are these determinants important to your community?

5. Which of these social determinants have the greatest positive or negative impact on the health of the community? Why and how do they impact the community? (Be specific – look at community or area websites for data.)

6. Which determinants are easiest to change, and why?

7. What other groups (that currently work in that area) can help you make changes to this problem?

8. What is the expertise of those groups? (For example, if you choose American Heart Association – what information is on their website that shows how they can help the community in question. Do they have offices in that community?)

9. What are the barriers to addressing these determinants in your community?

10. Other than the groups listed in Q7, what other resources are available in your community to address these determinants?