* Six determinants of health
* Physical environment.
* Economic status and income.
* Social relations.
* Culture.
* Availability of health services.
* Education and employment.
* Physical environment
* It include noise level,air quality,availability of water and other natural resources,man
made buildings which influence the health of a person.
Eg; A clean environment with out air pollution can avoid lot of health problems in people
living in that area.
* Economic status and income.
* It include financial stability or status of people with directly influence the ability to approach
good health care services and avoid nutritional deficiency problems due to proverty.
Eg; People who live in low economic status have malnutrition and vitamin deficiency
diseases.
* Social relations.
* Maintaining good social relations help to improve the mental health of people who live
in a society.
Eg; Participation of people in social welfare programs,festivals help to enhance the
mental status.
* Culture
* Cultural practices which a group of people follow will influence their decisions regarding
seeking health care for different diease conditions.
Eg; In some tribal cultures people only use herbs from the forest for all diseases and
refuse to take advanced medical treatment.
* Availability of health services.
* Availability of speciality hospitals and community health care services help to improve
the well being of people in the society.
Eg; Community health care centers in rural areas help to manage health problems of
people in that area.
* Education and employment.
* Awareness about various communicable and non communicable diseases in a
population established by education and working situvations in a company or institution
will affect the health of the people.
Eg; Knowlege about life style diseases like hypertension,diabetic melitus,obesity help
to prevent it's occurance.
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