Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

❖ What are the major paradigm shifts in the ways that we look at the social determinants of health? Use Dennis
Raphael’s descriptions of the seven perspectives on the SDH, and clear, concise examples from course content,
readings and discussions.
❖ Describe, using clear, concise examples from course content, readings and discussions, what is meant by
“complex spheres of power and influence” (micro, meso, macro).
❖ Using one clear example, describe how complexity theory provides a comprehensive context for thinking about
public policy and health.
❖ Using the film ‘When the bough breaks’, © Adleman, describe public policy interventions to address racism and
the health of pregnant women. Specifically, describe what policy interventions might look like in each of
Raphael’s seven characterization of the SDH.
❖ Using ONE clear example, explain how are the SDH, the Ecological Determinants of Health and the Structural
Determinants of Health are synergistically linked.
❖ Using a course concept of your choice (e.g. complexity science, critical perspectives on the SDH, structural
determinants of health, Gaventa’s Power Cube) concisely describe how racism as a determinants of health
❖ Use Gaventa’s Power Cube to analyze a public policy problem of your choice.
❖ Describe what is meant by positivism. Concisely describe how positivism might impact public policy to tackle
childhood poverty.