Overview of Social Determinants of Health Findings and Vignettes

Abstract

Chapter 33 provides ‘a bird’s eye view’ of all the patterns identified in relation to the SDH. A comprehensive table maps the SDH and associated sub-themes, as they relate to each child/young person. The aim is to highlight the great complexity arising from children/young people’s exposure to numerous factors which contribute to and perpetuate health inequity. The chapter also introduces readers to six of the real patients included in the study to provide insight into how the social circumstances into which the child/young person was born and is being raised are shaping his/her life.