Using an oral health topic from Healthy People 2020, identify a specific population and discuss the social determinants of health that influence this topic. Why is this population vulnerable and/or marginalized? What are its needs across the lifespan?

Critical Thinking

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:
Discuss the determinants of health relating to a particular Healthy People 2020 topic using this sources and bring reference from this websites.

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health

https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/tools/index.htm