How Health Happens
Understanding Social Determinants of Health and Community Health Resources
Module Information
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Oral Health Subjects: Public Health, Career Pathways
Keywords: Social Determinants of Health, Living Wage, Health Literacy, Health Professional Shortage Areas
Learning Goals:
- Describe how the health and appearance of a person’s teeth can shape that individual’s daily life.
- Identify social determinants of health that could affect your present or future oral health.
- Identify practices you can use at home to maintain your oral health and resources in your community that may be available to help you and others.
- Understand pathways to improving oral health and health literacy in your community.
Educational Standards
National Health Education Standards
1.12.1 Apply ways to build upon strengths and assets to support individual and collective health and well-being
1.12.2 Analyze the relationships between various dimensions of wellness as related to health outcomes
1.12.3 Evaluate behaviors that reduce or prevent illnesses and injuries
1.12.4 Evaluate practices and behaviors that support health and well-being, including how to manage health conditions
1.12.5 Examine connections between individual health literacy, organizational health literacy, and health outcomes
1.12.6 Analyze how individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental factors are interrelated and impact health outcomes
1.12.7 Analyze the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of health behaviors
1.12.8 Examine how self-efficacy, perceived susceptibility, and perceived severity affect health behaviors
1.12.9 Analyze the relationship between access to health care and overall health and well-being
2.12.1 Evaluate the interrelationships and impacts of various influences and health behaviors on health and well-being
2.12.2 Evaluate how social determinants of health influence health behaviors, health outcomes, and health equity
2.12.3 Evaluate how individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental influences and factors affect health equity
2.12.4 Formulate strategies to manage influences that impact health and well-being
2.12.5 Use resources to manage influences that impact health and well-being
3.12.1 Analyze the accessibility of trusted adults, other individuals, health professionals, and other resources to promote health and well-being
3.12.2 Analyze supports and barriers to accessing valid and reliable health information, products, services, and other resources
3.12.3 Evaluate the validity, reliability, and accessibility of health information, products, services, and other resources
3.12.4 Use valid and reliable sources of health information, products, services, and other resources
3.12.5 Apply strategies to manage misinformation and disinformation
4.12.3 Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to support the health of self and others
4.12.9 Adapt strategies to communicate with others with different perspectives and values in various contexts
4.12.10 Communicate with empathy and compassion
5.12.1 Analyze how health-related decisions may affect personal and community health and well-being from a variety of perspectives
5.12.2 Determine when and why health-related situations require the application of a thoughtful decision-making process.
5.12.4 Analyze a variety of options based on priorities and potential outcomes when making a health-related decision
5.12.5 Analyze the potential impact of a decision on the health and well-being at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels
5.12.7 Evaluate the impact of supports and barriers that affect decision making at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels
7.12.1 Analyze supports and barriers to engaging in health-related practices and behaviors
7.12.2 Evaluate practices, behaviors, and other factors supporting individual and collective health and well-being
7.12.3 Adapt practices and behaviors to support individual and collective health and well-being
7.12.4 Demonstrate a variety of practices and behaviors supporting individual and collective health and well-being
8.12.1 Examine a variety of factors that affect advocacy at individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels
8.12.2 Advocate for health issues either collaboratively or individually to promote health and well-being
8.12.3 Customize advocacy skills and strategies for varying audiences and contexts
8.12.4 Demonstrate self-advocacy skills and strategies to promote health and well-being
8.12.5 Demonstrate advocacy skills and strategies to promote health and well-being at interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels
8.12.6 Evaluate the process, outcomes, and impact of advocacy efforts at the individual, interpersonal, community, societal, and environmental levels
8.12.7 Analyze the role of collaboration among different people in a community to prevent and solve community health issues
National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies:
D2.Geo.5.9-12. Evaluate how political and economic decisions throughout time have influenced cultural and environmental characteristics of various places and regions.
D2.Psy.9.9-12. Describe biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that influence individuals’ cognition, perception, and behavior.
D2.Psy.12.9-12. Explain how social, cultural, gender, and economic factors influence behavior and human interactions in societies around the world.
D2.Soc.3.9-12. Identify how social context influences individuals.
D2.Soc.4.9-12. Illustrate how sociological analysis can provide useful data-based information for decision making.
D2.Soc.13.9-12. Identify characteristics of groups, as well as the effects groups have on individuals and society, and the effects of individuals and societies on groups
D2.Soc.14.9-12. Explain how in-group and out-group membership influences the life chances of individuals and shapes societal norms and values.
D2.Soc.15.9-12. Identify common patterns of social inequality.
D2.Soc.16.9-12. Interpret the effects of inequality on groups and individuals.
D2.Soc.18.9-12. Propose and evaluate alternative responses to inequality.
D4.6.9-12. Use disciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses to understand the characteristics and causes of local, regional, and global problems; instances of such problems in multiple contexts; and challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address these problems over time and place.
D4.7.9-12. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.