Social determinants of health

What are social determinants of health? How do social determinants of health contribute to the development of illness? What is a communicable disease chain? Are there steps that a nurse can take to break a link within the communicable disease chain? Give a specific example. Readings within your text covering international/global health and the following websites will assist you in answering these questions: 1. US. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Global Health website: httpflwwwcdcgov/cogh/index-htm 2. US. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Global Health website: htth/wwwglobalhealth.govflndex.html 3. Families USA - Why Global Health Matters-Here and Abroad website: htth/wwwfamiliesusaorg/ 4. World Health Organization (WHO) website: http://www-who.int For this DQ, since this is a community health nursing course you will want to make sure that you provide interventions to break the communicable disease focus from a community based focus and not acute care settings- If you use handwashing as your intervention, please be sure to add at least one additional example-