Exploring Health Systems Within the Context of Social Determinants of Health: A Global Health Case Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Global health case studies can highlight, often in dramatic fashion, topics such as health disparities, health systems, and the social determinants of health. This resource presents a case study of an adolescent Haitian boy requiring lifesaving heart surgery in the US due to an acquired mitral valve disease from untreated streptococcal pharyngitis.

Methods

While the case begins in a US clinic setting, it then goes on to explore the patient's home context-an impoverished village in rural Haiti-in order to demonstrate the effect of social determinants on both an individual's health and the capacity of health care systems to provide appropriate care. The case study concludes by asking the students to explore which health interventions, from a list of options, they

SUBMITTER: Fredrick NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464409 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature