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PHC212
Identify key factors affecting the health of individuals around the world? and the most important one in your country ( i need 250 words)
Key factors affecting the health of individuals around the world? and the most important one in your country
Key factors affecting the health of individuals around the world
Health is not only physical wellbeing. It includes mental, social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of an individual. There are many determinants that can influence the health and wellbeing of an individual. These include things like heredity, life style including dietary habits and physical activity, socio economic status, gender, built environment, personal habits such as alcoholism and smoking, sanitation and personal hygiene, education, occupation, access to health care, health seeking behavior.,etc. Ischaemic heart disease and CVA (stroke) are the world's highest killers. This are non-communicable diseases which has both modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. The non-modifiable risk factors are heredity, gender, age etc. Modifiable risk factors includes behavioral risk factors such as sedentary life style, lack of physical activity, smoking, drinking, drugs, diet etc.). Change in the life style and habits can really make an individual healthy to a great extend
Most important one in my country
In India, burden of non-communicable and communicable diseases are increasing day by day. There are inequalities in health between states. Health seeking behavior, access to health care, malnutrition, life style habits, sanitation, lack of safe drinking water are some of the main factors affects the health of the individuals. Use of alcohol and tobacco products contributes to huge number of NCD and Cancer deaths in the country. Poor sanitation in slums and other areas are making infectious diseases and other health problems in the country.