Health Determinant Model

Words: 157
Pages: 1

The World Health Organization define social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age” and that are “shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources.” (World Health Organisation,2014). There are many factors that impact on health of individual, family, groups and communities such as environment conditions where people live, genetic, income and level of education and relationship with family and friends. The common factor is access and use of health services but have less impact on health. (WHO,2012). The main scope this essay is to clarify the factors affecting health with the help of three significant landmarks and by using the Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991) health determinant model