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Social Determinants of Health – SPHA 556
Social Determinants of Health – SPHA 556
Health, both individually and collectively, is socially produced. Social determinants of health considers why health differences matter on ethical and practical grounds, and how can we act to effectively intervene on these differences.
A variety of personal, social and economic factors influence health status. SPHA 556 Social Determinants of Health (MHA Year One) provides an introduction to some of the foundational thinking that has given rise to the concept of population health. Students will be able to identify the key social determinants of health and a selection of frameworks that link these to the population’s health and to articulate case examples of policy initiatives and programs either proposed or currently in place to address issues in population health.
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Instructor Profile
Associate Professor, SPPH
Head, Occupational and Environmental Health Division
Program Director, MSc in Occupation and Environmental health (OEH)
Co-Director, Partnership for Work, Health and Safety
Dr. McLeod’s research focuses on the evaluation of occupational health policies and practices and on the causes and consequences of work-related injury and disease.
Current areas of research include an assessment of the effectiveness of occupational health and safety management systems on work injury; and national and international comparative work with jurisdictions in Ontario, Manitoba, Australia, and New Zealand. More broadly, his research explores how institutional and economic structures across countries affect health and health inequalities over the working life course, using high quality comparable longitudinal data from representative economies to examine the relationship between employment and working conditions and worker health within and across countries.
His work examining the relationship between unemployment and health, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, has been recently published in the Annual Review of Public Health and the American Journal of Public Health.
