Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes -International Standard Book Number, Making Money, Viking Press

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The statement, people with more money live longer than those who are poor because rich people can afford better health care services is inadequate. It leaves me to believe that income and health care are the only things that determine one"s health. An individual"s income is one of the social determinants of health that contributes to a person"s own health and has a variety of effects on an individual. Social determinants of health can be defined as the economic and social conditions that influence the health of individuals, communities, and jurisdictions as a whole (raphael, 2004). The knowledge of the social determinants of health has gone through a vast amount of changes in perspectives as to how society decides to define health. My experiences and readings thus far have not only expanded my understanding of health, but also the economic and social conditions affecting health.

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