1. Define and describe the determinants of health.
2. What are the Healthy People Reports and their importance to healthcare?
Ans) 1) Determinants of health
- It is defined as the range of behavioural, biological, socio-economic and environmental factors that influence the health status of individuals or populations. –Adapted from the World Health Organization 1998.
- Factors that combine together to affect the health of individuals and communities.
Examples of Determinants of health include:
-Income
-Social status
-Social support networks
-Education
-Employment/working conditions
-Social environment: Interactions with family, friends, coworkers,
and others in the community.
-Geography
-Physical environment: That which can be seen, touched, heard,
smelled and tasted.
-Personal health practices
-Coping skills
-Gender
-Culture
-Health services
-Biology/genetics: An individual's genetic makeup
-Healthy child development
2) Healthy People Reports and their importance to healthcare:
Healthy People 2020 defines the nation's health agenda and guide it's health policy, goals set by department of health and human services. set also for 2000 and 2010.
- Increase the quality and years of healthy people
- Eliminate health disparities
- It also has 38 focuses and about 467 specific objectives under
each.
Importance of Health People Reports to healthcare:
- It enable the nation to achieve health equity.
- Helps in eliminating disparities and creating social and physical environments that promote good health, quality of life, healthy development, and positive health behaviors across all life stages.
- Providing culturally competent health care increases the compliance with health lifestyles.
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