Question

How do socioeconomic factors compound the risk of chronic diseases? Consider how these factors may interact with each other to increase the risk of disease.

Answer 1

* Socioeconomic factors like education,income,lifestyle,social status and physical environment

   influence both physical and mental health of the person.

* Poor socioeconomic standards increases the risk of chronic ilness by

                  * Living in areas with lack of hygiene and overcrowding increases the risk of developing

                     diseases.

                  * Lower level of education result in lack of awaireness about importance of healthy practices

                   like regular exercises,balanced diet,vaccination etc to prevent chances of develop both

                     acute and chronic diseases.

                  * Unemployment elevate stress level of person leads to various physical and psychological

                     problems like depression,diabetic melitus,hypertension,heart diseases etc.

                   * Low income of the people leads to follow a poor nutritional pattern which result in

                      nutritional deficiency diseases.

                   * Lack of awaireness about health problems related to smoking,alcohol use and addictive

                     drugs in people who lives in low social class make them to continue this bad habits result

                     in chronic diseases.

                   * Because of lack of money and education people who live in poor socioeconomic condition

                     will not come for routine health check ups at regular intervals which increase the risk of

                     development of chronic illness.

                    * Lack of education leads to people in lower social class to follow only cultural belifes and

                      practices instead of seeking advanced medicine in chronic and acute diseases.