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Community
Preventive Services-
Sociocultural Environment Background-
Sociocultural
Environment Background
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Sociocultural
Environment Background
Health is
the product of multiple levels of influence.
- These
included genetic and biophysiologic
processes, individual behaviors, and the
context within which people live – the
sociocultural environment.
- The
sociocultural environment is an
interconnected system that includes
social, physical, cultural, economic and
political structures and processes.
- The
sociocultural environment exerts an
influence on health through resources in
physical settings – living conditions
in neighborhoods and communities – and
through the position people occupy in
the hierarchy of societal structure –
social position.
Conditions
in the sociocultural environment can be
measured, which offers a means to account
for why communities with few social
resources experience poorer health outcomes,
and to suggest suitable intervention
strategies.
- These
could include: affordable family
housing, increasing neighborhood safety,
supporting children’s healthy
development and learning, or community
development to increase economic
opportunities.
Recommendations
Early
Childhood Development Programs
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Publicly
funded, center-based early childhood
development programs
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Strongly
Recommended
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early
childhood development programs are
effective in improving preparedness to
learn: children who participated in
these programs are more likely to be
promoted with classmates and less
likely to be placed in special
education classes than children who
were not in such programs.
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Residential
Income Mixing Intervention Strategies
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Mixed-income
housing (deconcentration models)
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Insufficient
Evidence
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Rental
vouchers (dispersal models
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Recommended
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Neighborhoods
of concentrated poverty lack the
fundamental resources needed for good
health. Residents of poor
neighborhoods are exposed to a wide
variety of health and safety risks
including intentional injuries,
victimization and crimes against
person and property Tenant-based
rental voucher programs are effective
in improving household safety by
providing families the choice to move
to neighborhoods with lower risk of
victimization
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Access to
Quality Health Care for All Ages
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