Essay - Social Determinants of Health Health is a Social Factor Considered...

Social determinants of health

Health is a social factor considered essential to the maintenance and survival of human society, and because of its importance to the individual and ***** society, studies have been conducted both in the fields ***** ***** and biological science for its improvement and development of medical science and *****care. The role that research plays ***** the development of public health policies and ***** science are illustrated in the works of A. Br*****t ("The case ***** ***** Tuskegee Syphil***** study"), L. Mullings ("Inequality and African American Health Status"), and K. Shulman ("The effect of race ***** sex on physicians' recommendation for cardiac catherization"). In these researches, ***** is the determined and common dependent variable used, ***** across ***** three studies, ***** authors consider ***** and gender as the independent variables ***** influence health. While these studies look into the same set of ***** and dependent variables, ***** studies differ on how health and its in***** variables are *****terpreted and functioned ***** the purpose of the respective studies. *****'s study was the only research that demonstrated how health is a function of gender and/or race, discounting the role that other external variables play into the study. Brandt's and Mullings' *****, meanwhile, showed that health is determined by more than just the independent ***** gender and race. In Brandt's analysis ***** the Tuskegee syphilis study, non-provision of treatment for syphilis became a crucial variable that influenced the subjects' health and progress of the disease. Mullings' ***** on black American women's reproductive ***** and increased infant mortality rate in this specific group uncovered ***** ***** than just ***** and race, health am*****g black American women is an ***** variable itself, wherein the social structures influencing healthc***** towards ***** ***** result to the "health