Determinants of Health and Illness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY....................................................................................................................................1
Background.................................................................................................................................1
Main Section...............................................................................................................................2
The Physical Surroundings Factor.............................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................6

Determinant of Health and Illness
INTRODUCTION
Health is the biggest virtue of a human being. Having a good health and well being
will help a person to improve its performance and have a personal and professional
growth. This will help in carrying out of the services which will lead to suitable rise in
setting up of operations related to treatment of illness. There are various determinants
of health and illness, which are required to be well monitored. The essay covers the
details about determinants of health care because maintaining a good health has
became a challenge for the people in present scenario (Greenwood, Leeuw, and
Lindsay.2018). The essay will also cover a lifestyle determinant and detailed information
about it with summery about the measures taken by UK government on maintaining of
the health and prevention of illness.
MAIN BODY
Background
The determinants of health and illness can be determined by the factors that impact the
health and well being of an individual. It is based on many attributes including the social,
economic, physical, behavioral and personal characteristics which will help in carrying
out of suitable heath care measures. Besides this, it will also include the factors that can
cause an illness within person (Cassel, 2017).
The types of the various determinants of health care functions such as:
Biological: It includes the biological factors like gender, body type, age, height and
weight, genetics etc. Some determinants can be controlled while few attributes like
genetics can be managed properly. This is one of the major determinants of health and
illness and required to be effectively monitored.
Social: The social factors like friends and family, job, financial status, and other
psychological factors are also a major determinant of health and illness which will help
in determining the healthy living and well being of a person (Compton and Shim, 2015).
Besides this, it will also help him to see through effective treatment of an illness.

Lifestyle and personal habits or behavior can also be an important factor which can also
include the factors like education and sanitation. Maintaining of this factor will help in
proper planning of the health care facilities (Zar and et.al., 2015).
Environmental: The environmental factors like pollution, global warming, lack of
purity and cutting down of forests has been a major determinant of health. The climate-
based diseases and other illnesses have affected the health condition in UK to a greater
extent.
The health inequality can be termed as a major difference between the distribution of
health resources and health status which will help in carrying out of services which will
lead to carrying out of services (Baum, 2016). Also, it includes the unfair and improper
mixing of government health policies. Health equity on the other hand, is the proper
planning of the services and health care measures which will be allocated to all the
people in need of medical attention or health care-based services, without any
discrimination or biasness. The effective planning of the maintaining of health equality
measures with determinants will help in developing a proper well being policy or
treatment measures.
Main Section
There are many elements that combine collectively to affect the well-being of individuals
and groups. whether individuals are healthy or no longer healthy, it is decided by means
of their conditions and environment (Keleher, and MacDougall.2015). Further, elements
consisting of where we live, the condition of our surroundings, genetics, our earnings
and training degree, and our kinship with friends and own family all have sizable
impacts on health, whereas other considerable elements together with get approach to
and utilization of health services regularly have less of an effect. However, there are
three major determinants of health which consist of:
The Social and Financial Environment: These factors in the social
surroundings are essential for health as it includes factors which are relevant associated
with protection, hostility, and social sickness in standard, and greater unique factors
related to the sort, first-class, and stability of social relation, such as social engagement,