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Factors Influencing Health

1. Factors Influencing Health Presented By Gagan Kumar B.Sc. Nursing 1 st Sem DD22113301039

2. Introduction Health Influenced by various factors which interact with each other and determine the health status of many individual, family and community at large at any given point of time. These factors known as determinants of health .

3. These factors are categorized as: Genetic Make up Environment Life Style Socio-economic Conditions Education Occupation Health Services

4. Genetic Make up The physical and mental traits of human being are to a large extent determined by the nature of genes that are generally transferred from the parents to the offspring's. A number of diseases that results due to transportation of genes or irregular genes:- eg Chromosomal abnomalies , Errors of metabolism, Mental Retardation, Some type of diabetes etc.

5. Environment This is composed of internal and external factors that determines the health. Internal environment implies to cells, tissues, organs and all the body system, External environment composed of all the physical, biological, social, cultural factors that affects the health both positively as well as negatively and makes a person more susceptible to illnesses.

6. Life Style Life style is a very important determinant of health. It is composed of socio- economic status, habits of an individual, socio-cultural factors, customs, religion etc. The habits of smoking, alcoholism affect badly the health status of an individual. Good environmental sanitation, good nutrition, sound sleep, sufficient physical activities etc. denote the positive side of health status than the poor environmental conditions etc.

7. Socio-economic Conditions In the developed country, there is very less percentage of morbidity and mortality cases. Now a days due to increase in economy of developing countries the morbidity and mortality cases gradually decrease. As the people with good socio-economic status can buy better nutritional component, have better sanitation conditions, that helps in improving the health status of an individual.

8. Education Education too determines health status, as an educated person have more knowledge about the factors improving quality of life than an illiterate person.

9. Occupation Occupation plays a very important role in determining health status. As the persons who are involved in the occupation that require only documentary work are more susceptible to get obese and hence develop heart diseases. And the persons who are involved in an occupation that require more physical activities are more active and healthy.

10. Health Services Provision of health services too determines health status. As now a days the health services/facilities are provided better to the urban community than the rural area people that is why incidence of illness is low in urban areas. Examples of health services are : Immunization of children. Provision of safe water supply. Care of pregnant women and children. Primary health care

11. Summary and Conclusion There are many factors that can affect the health like Genetic make up, Environment, Life style, Socio-economic conditions, Education Occupation and Health services. Socio-economic status, race, social network/social support and the psychological work environment all have been shown to affect health outcomes.

12. MCQs Qus.1 Health can be considered as: Physical health Mental Health No disease or illness All of the above. Qus.2 "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Definition is not given by:- WHO H.S. Hayman Pericles Both (b) and (c)

13. References Lakhwinder Kaur , Maninder Kaur A text book of Nursing Foundation, Edition 2017 Page No. 04-41 Annu Kuushik , Jyoti Sarin , A text book of Nursing Foundation, South asian edition 2020 Page No. 02-10

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