Social determinants of child mental health
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
An outlined approach to understanding and assessing social determinants of health by examining how children's environments affect their biology and their pathways in health.
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour / Medical Foundation 4 / Part 4 / Week 1
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Understand the definition of social determinants of health and why they are important to child development.
- Remember the four determinants of healthy child development and apply these to your assessment of children.
- Describe risk and protective factors for conduct disorder as they relate to these determinants of health.
- Outline an approach to prevention and intervention for children with conduct disorder based on social determinants of health organized across three levels of intervention: universal, targeted and clinical.
General Objectives
- Theme 3: The relevance of past/early experiences to mental health and illness and development
- Describe the sequelae associated with adverse childhood experiences.
Assessments
Concept Application Exercise (CAE)
Tags
Basic Sciences
Diagnosis
Epidemiology
Etiology
Human development
Curriculum Block
Brain and Behaviour
Medical Foundation 4
Part 4
Week 1
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Week 9
Discipline
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Attention, Learning and School Problems
Child Abuse
Concepts of Health and Its Determinants
Developmental Delay
Failure To Thrive (Infant, Child)
McMaster Program Competencies
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
MeSH
Child Development [F01.525.200]
Conduct Disorder [F03.625.094.300]
Mental Health [F02.418]
Personality Development [F01.752.747]
Social Determinants of Health [N01.400.675]
