HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Food Contaminant, Environmental Health, Population Health
Document Summary
According to the who, the social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. Affect the distribution of money, power and resources, at global, national and local scales. Can also be thought of as the upstream factors affecting our health and how long we live - treating a source/underlying cause of poor health, not just the symptoms. Mostly responsible for health inequities: unfair/avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries. We as a society are aware of the significant differences in people"s health and longevity. Some succumb to disease, disability and death more than others. We usually think this is due to genes, personality (habits), or environment. Behavioural - within the individual"s control (ex: smoking, riding a bike without a helmet) Environmental - dependant on regulations and societies (ex: air pollution, food contamination, airborne pathogens)
