Applying the DHHS Healthy People 2020 Model of Health Determinants

1 Credit.

Presents the model of health determinants, and focuses on the effects on population health and community and personal wellbeing. Explores the health determinants model introduced by the US. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 Committee. Discusses the model which links negative social and physical determinants of health, such as abuse, lack of social support, or poor-quality living conditions, with trauma responses, and then with behavioral and health conditions. Discusses population health as an approach to understanding and intervening in this system to prevent trauma and subsequent illness. Examines the dimensions of wellbeing to reflect subsequent health status.Introduces and explores the model and several areas of application.