External Factors
People’s health is a result of internal and external factors. Describe two factors and explain their effects on people’s health.
This assignment will be looking at how a person’s health is affected by both internal and external factors. Health can be affected by several different causes and may vary for each person due to the influence and nature of these factors. However, this assignment will be looking specifically into the biological aspect discussing topics such as obesity and genetics as the internal factor and exploring the physiological elements such as beliefs and emotions as the external factor.
An example of how an internal factor such as biology affecting health is a person’s weight. Studies have shown that “height and body weight …show more content…
A common habit people have is to “comfort eat”, where food is used as a comfort and then the person ends up overeating, even if a person is unhappy with their weight comfort eating is common. People have a tendency to turn to overeating, comfort eating or alcohol due to being “stressed or unhappy” (The Open University, 2015), this could signify a link between stress and emotions and how people cope with stress and the effects on the person’s health. Another factor that has an input into a person’s health is their beliefs, these beliefs and their attitudes are formed due to society and social normality as seen from “family, friends, culture, relationships, laws, TV/Media and institutions” (The Open University, 2015), what is seen as healthy to one person would depend on the influence of these social forces on the person. For example, a person who sunbathes may do so because they feel that the tan “is attractive” or it gives them confidence (The Open University, 2015), this may be due to friends and family or TV/Media who show tanned people in a positive light. However there are a lot of dangers of skin cancer linked to sunbathing that would negatively effect a person’s health, however, they either may not know about the dangers or they may choose to ignore them due to their belief that they look
This assignment will be looking at how a person’s health is affected by both internal and external factors. Health can be affected by several different causes and may vary for each person due to the influence and nature of these factors. However, this assignment will be looking specifically into the biological aspect discussing topics such as obesity and genetics as the internal factor and exploring the physiological elements such as beliefs and emotions as the external factor.
An example of how an internal factor such as biology affecting health is a person’s weight. Studies have shown that “height and body weight …show more content…
A common habit people have is to “comfort eat”, where food is used as a comfort and then the person ends up overeating, even if a person is unhappy with their weight comfort eating is common. People have a tendency to turn to overeating, comfort eating or alcohol due to being “stressed or unhappy” (The Open University, 2015), this could signify a link between stress and emotions and how people cope with stress and the effects on the person’s health. Another factor that has an input into a person’s health is their beliefs, these beliefs and their attitudes are formed due to society and social normality as seen from “family, friends, culture, relationships, laws, TV/Media and institutions” (The Open University, 2015), what is seen as healthy to one person would depend on the influence of these social forces on the person. For example, a person who sunbathes may do so because they feel that the tan “is attractive” or it gives them confidence (The Open University, 2015), this may be due to friends and family or TV/Media who show tanned people in a positive light. However there are a lot of dangers of skin cancer linked to sunbathing that would negatively effect a person’s health, however, they either may not know about the dangers or they may choose to ignore them due to their belief that they look