Question

• Consider all aspects of a person’s environment (e.g., physical, socio-economic, environmental) and identify two factors that have been shown to increase the risk of acute or chronic health conditions in men.
• Which interventions might help address these risk factors?

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Answer 1

Ans) Determinants of health are factors that contribute to a person’s current state of health:

- These factors may be biological, socioeconomic, psychosocial, behavioral, or social in nature. Scientists generally recognize five determinants of health of a population:

Genes and biology: for example, sex and age
Health behaviors: for example, alcohol use, injection drug use (needles), unprotected sex, and smoking
Social environment or social characteristics: for example, discrimination, income, and gender
Physical environment or total ecology: for example, where a person lives and crowding conditions
Health services or medical care: for example, access to quality health care and having or not having insurance
Other factors that could be included are culture, social status, and healthy child development. Scientists do not know the precise contributions of each determinant at this time.

In theory, genes, biology, and health behaviors together account for about 25% of population health. Social determinants of health represent the remaining three categories of social environment, physical environment/total ecology, and health services/medical care. These social determinants of health also interact with and influence individual behaviors as well. More specifically, social determinants of health refer to the set of factors that contribute to the social patterning of health, disease, and illness.