Social determinants of health as a tool for a better nursery intervention

Abstract

Investigations in the nursery field have stopped in knowing and deepening in the risk facts that could affect, in one or another way, the individual, the family or the community. There might be risk facts in any setting favoring diseases, like physical environment (infectious agents, drugs or chemical substances), psychic condition (stress), and social background (behavior and life styles, socioeconomic characteristics, way of life, level of life) and inherited facts. For the nursery staff, recognizing risk facts is relevant because it allows their identification and correcting their effects. That is why it is very important to highlight a risk approach through the profession's scientific method, Nursery Care Process. Its capacity of solving is inherent in taking in to account actions from the point of view of the participants motivational implication, adapting them to population groups ordered by age, personal and group characteristics, based on the micro and macro-social influences as expression of the developmental social situation in a context of health actions contributing to improve the populations health status, all of that through the Health Social Determinants, the global framework explaining the dimension of the society stratification and vulnerability complexness and its impact on health. The structural determinants: entering, education, sexuality, genre and ethnicity, conform an explaining base, besides the traditional lineal explanation, cause-effect, of the health impact, when involving intermediary determinants conditioning vulnerability, exposition and health answer.