How would you define both the built environment and the social environment. Discuss how these two...

How would you define both the built environment and the social environment. Discuss how these two environments can affect health at the individual, community, and population levels.

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1. Built environment is defined as the human made surroundings. It includes transportation, building, money, education, health and physical activity. Social environment is the physical social setting in which the people live. It includes society beliefs, customs, practices and behaviour.
2. Many factors can affect health of an individual which includes hazards in the air, soil and water. This is due to the wastes from agricultural and industrial areas, landfills and leaking underground storage tanks. The other factors that affect health are poor air quality which leads to cancer and damage to the respiratory system and contamination of water leads to mild to severe illness. The social factors that affect health are poor social and economic factors affect health, stress can cause poor coping, damage to health and premature death, some cultures think obesity is health and encourage high birth rates in families.

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