CQ2: What influences the health of individuals? The determinants of health COPY NOTES • • • • • An individual’s level of health status and quality of life are the result of many factors interacting. These factors are referred to as determinants of health. Some of these factors can be controlled or modifiable by the individual‚ such as smoking cigarettes. Some factors are beyond an individual’s capacity to control‚ so they are termed non-modifiable‚ eg. age/heredity. Determinants of health affect
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Introduction Social determinants of health have attracted the attention of governments‚ policy makers and international health organisations in the last couple of decades (20). This is because the social conditions in which people are born‚ live and work is an important predictor of good or poor health (WHO ?). According to Kibesh (1200) social determinants drive health disparities‚ disrupts the human developmental process and undermine the quality of life and opportunities for people and families
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Determinants of health. Biological Determinants –body weight & genetics. (Introduction- Biological determinants) Biological determinants of health include those factors that influence the health status of an individual through genetics or as a result of the effect of micro-organisms. Biological determinants are also the structure of the cells‚ tissues and systems of the body and how well they function. The effect of micro-organisms is both positive and negative to our body. Many miro-organisms
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Health is essential to living a comfortable and fulfilling life‚ however it’s not granted to everyone as health is determined by various economic and social factors‚ also known as social determinants of health. Social determinants of health affect the health of the individual‚ communities and jurisdiction as a whole; consequently it is in charge of determining the extent to which a person can access physical‚ social and personal resources to health (Hobbs & Rice 2013‚ p.456). Understanding social
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Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 50e59 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Social Science & Medicine journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed Comparing social determinants of self-rated health across the United States and Canada Steven G. Prus* Department of Sociology‚ Carleton University‚ D795 LA‚ 1125 Colonel By Drive‚ Ottawa‚ Ontario‚ K1S 5B6 Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Available online 18 May 2011 A large body of
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Describe what is meant by the term `social determinants of health’. Discuss the evidence of how work has an impact on health. Outline the implications for nursing practice. Introduction The aim of this assignment is to discuss the evidence of the impacts that work can have on an individual’s health. Health has been defined as a state of complete physical‚ mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (World Health Organisation - WHO‚ 1946). Therefore‚ health is viewed
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Public health and social justice are very much interlinked (Gostin & Powers‚ 2006). Public health focuses on addressing the health care needs of the community rather than the individual‚ and on prevention rather than cure (Blacksher‚ 2014). Social conditions is one of the important underlying determinants of health. In view of this‚ social determinants such as living conditions‚ housing‚ a unhygienic and polluted environment which depend on the socio-economic status of the individual have to be addressed
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determining factor of health. Inequality in health‚ in the context of public health is the aspect where difference in health status amid in diverse populace (RCN‚ 2012). Although‚ various concepts have been suggested to understand the transformations and inclinations in peoples’ health‚ however‚ there has been lack of progress (Mabhala‚ 2009). In understanding the determinants of health‚ it function‚ and how it can be changed to improve health and reduce health inequalities‚ the World Health Organization
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of the social determinants of health are based on the social disadvantages based on which they where born into. As the author explains‚ “It is being a member of this disadvantaged “class” that makes one substantially more likely to experience the send of isolation‚ powerlessness‚ alienation‚ and foreshortened time preference that leads directly to lower levels of education‚ with resultant lower occupational status and lower income.” (77) They are 5 steps of the causal cascade of the social determinants
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Health and Wealth The statement‚ “people with more money live longer than those who are poor because rich people can afford better health care services” is inadequate. It leaves me to believe that income and health care are the only things that determine one’s health. An individual’s income is one of the social determinants of health that contributes to a person’s own health and has a variety of effects on an individual. Social determinants of health can be defined as the “economic and social conditions
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