Question

What are the top 3 factors in improving the health status of an individual and explain your reasoning?

This is for a health care economics class. Please provide 250 words in your response.

Answer 1

The top three factors in improving the health are:

• Physical Environment
• Socioeconomic status
• Life style

Phsical Environment:The phsical environment includes land,air,water, plants and animals,buildings and other infrastructure, and all of the natural resources that provide the basic needs and opportunities for social and economic development.A clean healthy environment is important for peoples' physical and emotional wellbeing.Physical working conditions such as exposure to dangerous substances, such as lead, asbestos, mercury as well as phsical demands examples carrying heavy loads, human factors, and ergonomic problems can affect the health and safety of employees.Human activities affect the operation of phsical environment processess, and the results rebound on the human world.The physical environment provides resources and a platform to use these resources, but can also be a hazard to people.Therefore human impact as a subject is of special concern to physical geographers.Globally, 23% of all deaths among children under age 5 are due to preventable environmental factors.These environmental factors are diverse and far reaching.They include exposure to hazrdous substances in the air, water, soil and food.So control of the pollution, proper disposable of waste, maintaing hazardous free environment helpsin the promotin of health.

SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS:

Low socioeconomic factors and its correlates, such as lower educational acheivement,poverty and poor health, ultimately affect our society.Society benefits from an increased focus on the foundations of socioeconomic status in the United States and abroad.Socioeconomic status whether assessed by income , education, or occupation is linked to a wide range of health problems including low birth weight, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, arthritis, diabetes and cancer.Poverty is a socio economic issue.Socioeconomic issues are factors that have negative influences on an individuals' economic activity including lack of education, cultural and religious discrimination, overpopulation,unemployment and corruption.Low socioeconomic status leads several diseases and it has greater inflence over health.So people of low socioeconomic status should take efforts in reaching out for the sources that are available in the government hospitals and should consume less cost high nutritious food like green leafy vegetables, dates,milk,green leaves etc inorder to promote health.

LIFE STYLE:

Behavioural and social issues that impact on health include smoking,diet,nutrition and alcohol which together account for many Congestive heart disease , Cancer deaths,poor diet leading to obesity which reduces the life expectancy or alternatively malnutrition,lack of physical exercises, sexual behaviours leadind to infections.Life style modificational factors helps in promotion of health.They are as follows

• No smoking
• Stay physically active
• Eat a healthful diet
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Keep your cholestrol under control
• Keep your blood pressure at good levels
• Keep your blood sugar in check
• Avoid junk food
• Avoid carbonated foods.