Question

Think about being a 30yr old working college student. How did the social determinants of health influence your life choices? Which of the three levels of influence (proximal, distal or ultimate) do you feel had the biggest influence on those choices?

Answer 1

Answer: Nowadays due to need of the job and busy schedule people are neglecting their health. The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels. Examples of these resources include safe and affordable housing, access to education, public safety, availability of healthy foods, local emergency/health services, and environments free of life-threatening toxins.

The three levels of influence as ultimate, distal, and proximal. Ultimate-level causes are broad and relatively stable, and they are causes that individuals have little control over such as their cultural environment. Distal determinants of health include the national, institutional, political, legal, and cultural factors that indirectly influence health by acting on the more proximal factors, their interrelated mechanisms, levels, trends, and distributions. These distal factors are usually more stable than proximal determinants.