Look after your nature deficit! Protecting & expanding green spaces, & ensuring they are accessible, can be considered an investment in good health.
@sarzberry
covers off the benefits by exploring nature prescriptions. #wellbeing #SDOH #socialprescribing https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/is-it-time-for-your-doctor-to-give-you-a-nature-prescription-20230406-p5cyle.html

Why do we have to be told to #exercise and eat more vegetables? Great article on how profits are driving our unhealthy lifestyles. #SDoH https://t.co/tYdFzkotAU

Protective factors for good health extend to cognitive health; new research finds eating a Mediterranean-like diet reduces risk of #dementia by an astounding 23% -!! #sdoh https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2023/03/mediterraneandietdecreaseddementiarisk/

Access to green spaces may be correlated with a slowed ageing process. An incredible finding & more evidence for looking after our nature deficit. #wellbeing #SDOH https://lens.monash.edu/@medicine-health/2021/09/16/1383807/surrounding-plant-life-linked-to-slower-biological-ageing

A healthy lifestyle protects against long #COVID - timely study here emphasising the importance of public health measures! #SDOH https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/following-healthy-lifestyle-may-reduce-risk-of-long-covid/

Precarious #employment is a key driver of physical & #mentalhealth outcomes. Precarious employment is also a highly gendered phenomenon. Placing a gender lens on economic recovery policies is critically important. Great work here! #SDOH https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/12/e068190

Evidence continues to mount for the serious #health & #wellbeing effects of social isolation. New research from @johnshopkinssph confirms earlier findings that socially isolated older adults are more likely to develop #dementia.
-> These protective factors seem like no big deal until they are absent from your life. #sdoh
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/new-studies-suggest-social-isolation-is-a-risk-factor-for-dementia-in-older-adults-point-to-ways-to-reduce-risk

Please re-post: Grant alert for Victorian-based researchers!

@VicHealth
is looking to fund innovative research to support:
- Social connection & #Wellbeing
- Active communities & #sport
- Healthy & Sustainable #FoodSystems
- Climate, environment & #health

#SDOH #HealthEquity

More info: https://bit.ly/3Z5XiM9

Excited to be leading the MSc course "Social determinants of global health."

Alongside 48 MSc students, I will be living, breathing, dreaming #sdoh for the next 3 weeks.

#AcademicLife #EpiVerse

Improving diets at any age brings reductions in mortality & increases in quality of life.
Modeling shows 10+ years for a 20-year-old who improves diet; however modeling shows impressive gains for people in their 60’s (9 years) and even 80’s (3 years).
Most significant change is reduction of 🥩 & increases in legumes, but reducing processed foods & increasing 🍉 🍎 & 🥗 also impactful.
HT @erlesen #SDoH #wellbeing
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889

More evidence for the negative #health effects of #poverty - new research finds associations between childhood poverty and accelerated cell ageing and insulin resistance. #sdoh https://www.mentaldaily.com/article/2022/07/researchers-link-accelerated-cell-aging-and-insulin-resistance-to-early-poverty

The causes of #obesity are complex, but researchers agree it’s not explained by individual failings. #SDoH #wellbeing

Okay - an #introduction

My #PhD is in #psychology - #wellbeing & the evolutionary foundations of #Music, including social connection & #emotion regulation. Also an MSc in #OrganisationalBehaviour - focus on #decision making processes.

I have researched & published in #GenderEquality & social justice issues. I am currently in the public health space. I am focused on the #SDOH for #mentalhealth & #wellbeing & issues of #HealthEquity.

Also fascinated by animal cognition, emotion & connection

ICYMI - Magda's Big National Health Check explores how the social determinants of health impact on how much we exercise, what we eat, & our mental health. Fabulous & accessible 3-part series now available on demand (in Australia anyway - not sure what global access is?). #exercise #SDOH #mentalhealth #wellbeing https://iview.abc.net.au/show/magda-s-big-national-health-check

Are there social determinants of #mentalhealth ? Absolutely! If you are in Australia be sure to tune in to part 3 of Magda's Big National Health Check tonight to explore the connections b/w healthy mind/healthy body & touch on some of those #SDOH for our mental #wellbeing. https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/11/magdas-big-national-health-check-nov-15.html

I'm writing a book (about 500 words a day) about different innovative ways that nonprofits and governments support people experiencing material hardship. I’m reading a lot of #economics, #socialwork, #sdoh, and #policy researchers who’ve been doing great work on material hardship, its consequences, and why we have the system we have.
#Macademia #academic - I’d love to know more of you doing this work. Please introduce yourself so I can follow you and read your work.

An overview of global urban health research priorities for 2022–2032 from the WHO Team of Social Determinants of Health.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240041820

#urbanhealth #politics #sdoh #who