Factors Influencing Health in Community: A Comprehensive Report

This report delves into the multifaceted factors that influence community health. It highlights the importance of environmental factors, individual beliefs, and access to healthcare. The report identifies key indicators of community health and wellness, such as physical activity, environmental quality, and access to healthcare, emphasizing their significant impact on the health of community members. Furthermore, it explores the crucial role of media, particularly social media and advertising, in promoting health and improving community health outcomes. The report suggests that effective health promotion strategies should leverage these media channels to raise awareness and encourage positive health behaviors. It emphasizes the need for a holistic approach to community health, focusing on both environmental factors and individual knowledge regarding health and wellness. This assignment is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors shaping community health and effective strategies for improvement.

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FACTORS INFLUENCE HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
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Most Affective Factors in Community Health
Community health is a factor in the health care system that focuses on the health
improvement of the people of a community or each community of the country. In this context, it
can be stated that the factor of the community health can be affected by different factors as it is a
collective factor in the health care system. A community is comprised with individual, culture,
religion and the environment. Hence, these different factors are the main depending aspects of
the community health. Thus, it can be found that the community health is affected by the external
environment mostly. The external environment such as the air, water and the health care facility
or access to the health care is the factors that impact over the health of the community people. In
this context it can be stated that the quality of life of the community people are mostly affected
with the health care access or the environmental resources (Cheu & Balal, 2018). Moreover, the
community health can be affected by the individual belief and the cultural or religious aspects
(Gray, 2018). Hence, based on these factors it can be highlighted that the environmental
resources can affect the community health mostly and the individual belief and behaviour can
affect the health of the community in small scales. Thus, the improvement of the community
health should be focusing on every aspect of the community especially environmental factors
and the individual knowledge regarding health and other aspects as well.
Indicators of Community Health and Wellness
As per Healthy people 2010 it can be found that that the health promotion agenda is
depending on different aspects of the human life and the community health issues. In this,
context, the Healthy people 2010 identified the most important indicators which should be
improved in accordance to the health improvement of the community. It can be found that the
process of the health improvement is mostly dependent on the following indicators:

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 Physical activity.
 Overweight and obesity.
 Tobacco use.
 Substance abuse.
 Responsible sexual behaviour.
 Mental health.
 Injury and violence.
 Environmental quality.
 Immunization.
 Access to health care (Cdc.gov, 2015).
Thus, it can be stated that the physical activity, environmental quality and the health care
access are the most important indicators as these factors impact on the health in a significant
way. Improving these indicators can boost the health quality of the community people.
Health Promotion Media
In terms of the health promotion for the community health improvement media plays a
crucial role. In this context, it can be found that the present lifestyle is attracted to the digital
media. Hence, the social media based health promotion can be very much effective in terms of
the health promotion and improvement. Moreover, the health promotion through advertisement
can also be effective as it can develop awareness in a significant way. Hence, it can be stated that
the health improvement through health promotion can be effective if the social media and
advertising media are involved in the process (Gabarron et al., 2018).

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