Weekly Wrap-Up
March 18, 2022
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Social Determinants of Health

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

SDOH can be grouped into 5 domains:

Economic Stability
Education Access and Quality
Health Care Access and Quality
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Social and Community Context

SDOH also contribute to wide health disparities and inequities. For example, people who don't have access to grocery stores with healthy foods are less likely to have good nutrition. That raises their risk of health conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity — and even lowers life expectancy relative to people who do have access to healthy foods.
Women of Color and the Wage Gap
 
Women of color continue to suffer the most severe gender wage gap in the United States, a reality that reflects the effects of intersecting racial, ethnic, and gender biases that threaten the economic security of them and their families.
Gender Pay Gap Contributes to Increased Rates of Depression and Anxiety Among Women
 
A recent study from researchers at Columbia University (Platt, Prins, Bates, & Keyes, 2016) puts forth a possible new explanation for the higher rates of depression and anxiety seen in working women—and women in general—compared with rates in their male peers: the well-documented gender wage gap.
 
New California Bill Aims at the Combined $107 Billion Lost to Gender, Racial Pay Gap
 
After a study found vast gender and racial wage gaps for workers in the same roles, a new bill would force companies to share their wage data publicly.
 
Companies with more than 100 employees in California could be required to publicly share how much they pay their workers in an attempt to close the gender and racial pay gaps.
 
Sen. Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, introduced a bill this week that would require companies to share aggregated data on wages broken down by race, gender, and ethnicity on their websites in addition to salary ranges on their job postings. It’s an attempt to shrink California’s gender and racial pay gap through pay transparency.
 
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