Social determinants affect access to health care, foster or interfere with the ability to practice health behaviors, affect physiology through influences on stress hormones, and result in ecological/epidemiological changes that can affect multiple generations. Culture and lifespan have a profound effect on designing a health promotion program.

• Discuss how health disparities can be reduced through the application health promotion research in a specific culture or population aggregate such as an Ethnic Group, low socioeconomic community, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning or any population that has health disparities .

• What are the advantages of using logic models when planning and evaluating health promotion programs?