Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

Name: Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health
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Local Faith Communities as partners in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

Created byErwin Tembo

Last updated 11/2021

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What you'll learn

An introduction to Social Determinants of Public Health.
Establish the relationship between Religion and Public Health.
Identify roles of Religion through Local Faith Communities in Public Health.
Overview of the Sustainable Development Goals on Health.
Explain the partnerships between Local Faith Communities in Public Health to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Course content

6 sections • 15 lectures • 34m total length

Introduction2:24
Explore religion as a social determinant of public health. Engage with local faith communities to improve health outcomes and reduce communicable and non-communicable diseases, supporting the sustainable development goals.

Social Determinants of Public Health. What are they?1:53
Explore how socioeconomic status shapes health outcomes and how poverty reduction, income, and education influence life expectancy within the social determinants of public health and Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
The "wider set of forces" in Social Determinants of Public Health2:42
Explore the wider set of forces shaping health, including social environment, identity, and socio-economic status, and examine how policy, built environment, and inequality affect access to health services and education.
How do the "wider set of forces" affect Public Health?2:49
Explore how the wider set of forces—social environment, social identity, and socioeconomic status—shape public health. These factors affect exposure to hazards, access to care, and health behaviors.

Religion, a Social Determinant of Public Health3:07
Explore how religion acts as a social determinant of public health, central to many people's lives and shaping health perceptions, narratives, and well-being.
Roles played by Religion in Public Health action2:12
Explore how religion shapes public health through social support, social control, and social capital, with religious communities providing belonging, behavior regulation, and education and health services for impoverished populations.

Local Faith Communities as partners for Public Health1:40
Explore how local faith communities, driven by religion, act as partners for public health by influencing health via beliefs and social groupings, uniting health development and humanitarian action.
Significant attributes of Local Faith Communities1:39
Explore significant attributes of local faith communities and their role in public health partnerships, including influence on behavior, sustainability, and social and material assets.
Local Faith Communities, influenced by religious narratives on community health2:13
Explore how local faith communities shape community health through religious narratives uniting people around dignity and values, guiding holistic care for the vulnerable across physical, social, economic, and spiritual well-being.
Local Faith Communities, ability to influence individual and community behaviour2:21
Local faith communities influence both individual and community behavior by leveraging trusted religious leaders to embrace health initiatives and prevent ill health within their culturally aware communities.
Local Faith Communities have greater levels of sustainability and endurance1:46
Local faith communities show greater sustainability and endurance through a strong commitment to people and localities. They reach remote areas where governments fail to provide health care, sustaining community action.
Local Faith Communities hold social and material assets1:53
Local faith communities hold social and material assets, with members across society and diverse skill sets. Leverage their physical infrastructure to implement community programs that improve health care delivery.

Overview of the Sustainable Development Goals on Health3:00
The course explains sustainable development goals in public health, outlining goal 3's 13 health outcomes and seven thematic areas, and highlights prevention through education, vaccination, and health services toward 2030.
Local Faith Communities: Partners in meeting the SDGs on Health1:50
Explore how local faith communities influence social determinants of health and partner with public health interventions to accelerate progress toward the health-related sustainable development goals.

Requirements

No prerequisite

Description

Low income situations negatively affect health outcomes of populations, hence, threatening the ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Research carried out so far on issues of income, education and life expectancy, have come to a common consensus that poverty reduction would promote healthier populations.

In seeking partners to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, this course seeks to understand the relationship between health and religion. Undertaken is the study of religion in influencing public health outcomes in communities. Highlighted is the importance of religion as an element in the Social Determinants of Health. This is particularly important in the efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations by 2030.

Thus, in reflecting on the interaction between religion and health, one thought can be that, if religion is central in many people's lives then religion can be said to be central to managing public health issues and be a driver for wellbeing in communities. This leads us to a conclusion that, religion and health cannot be regarded as independent of each other.

Hence, established is that Local Faith Communities are driven by religion, which in this instance, is said to be a social determinant of health. And in enforcing the notion that health, cannot be separated from religion, Local Faith Communities, therefore, should be considered as partners for public health.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in the subjects of Religion and Public Health

Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Social Determinants of Public Health3 lectures • 7min