HEALTH INFORMATION FOR HALIBURTON COUNTY: PHASE TWO

HEALTH INFORMATION FOR HALIBURTON COUNTY: PHASE TWO

Fahrun, Dan; Fraser, Cheryl; Moss, Jaime; Clarke, Jackie; Balsar, Brittany; Smith, Devon; Duncan, Heather; Duesling, Bailey; South, Jennifer; Shea, Amanda-Lee; Wickham, Trevor; Rogers, Zoe; Hayes, Nathaniel; MacDonald, Candice; Page, Laura

SDOH Advisory Committee
Host contact: Reid, Heather

Skinner, Mark
Department: Geography

TP-622

2009

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Haliburton County

Social determinants of community health

The ultimate purpose of the research was to bring information and people together to strengthen the community's overall health. The advisory group described the project in the following way:"The health of a community is influenced by a wide range of factors, many of which lie outside traditional definitions of "physical and mental health". These factors, known as the social determinants of health, are the economic and social conditions under which people live that determine their health.

The purpose of this project was to develop and demonstrate skills in writing and presenting community based research on a social determinant of rural health issues. It includes a series reports for the Health Information for Haliburton County project. The reports focus on a specific rural health theme. The topics to covered were: Income and social status, Housing, Education and Literacy, Social support networks, Personal health practices and Coping skills, Healthy child development, Women and poverty, and Food security. The final reports feature three-parts: a literature review on how this issue relates to health in rural/remote areas, a community profile for Haliburton County based on available secondary data relating to the selected theme, and a research proposal to fill gaps in exiting knowledge about the theme in Haliburton County. The recommendations from each report are included in the summary of recommendations.

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