Competencies:
5. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.
6. Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
8. Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
12. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
16. Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue.
21. Integrate the social determinants of health into dental public health practice.

Learning Objective:
1. Discuss your own personal determinants of health.

Core Professional Attributes:
1. ATSU: Critical Thinking

Now this is how I would do the “My Determinants of Health Assignment”
understand what determinants of health is?
• Then for the assignment,
• Lastly before beginning to go for my chosen option, I will focus on the below topics
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• Examples of social determinants include:
• Availability of resources to meet daily needs (e.g., safe housing and local food markets)
• Access to educational, economic, and job opportunities
• Access to health care services
• Quality of education and job training
• Availability of community-based resources in support of community living and opportunities for recreational and leisure-time activities
• Transportation options
• Public safety
• Social support
• Social norms and attitudes (e.g., discrimination, racism, and distrust of government)
• Exposure to crime, violence, and social disorder (e.g., presence of trash and lack of cooperation in a community)
• Socioeconomic conditions (e.g., concentrated poverty and the stressful conditions that accompany it)
• Residential segregation
• Language/Literacy
• Access to mass media and emerging technologies (e.g., cell phones, the Internet, and social media)