DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Determinants of Health

Determinants of Health

Introduction

Many reasons come together to influence the health of society and individuals. Whether people are healthy or not, is determined by their environment and circumstances. To a great extent, reasons such as where we live, the state of our environment, our income, education level and genetics, and our interaction with family and friends all have great impacts on health, whereas the health care services have less impact.

There has been continuous and remarkable development on healthiness over the last twenty years in Australia. At present, the residents of New South Wales are among the healthiest on the globe. However, this has partly done through innovation in medical sector. Improvements in working and living conditions, good life style, economic success, political stability and levels of Education have played key roles in this progress.

In identifying the importance of fitness; community level support, behavioural health risk factors and psychological; biological; and the wider structural and social influence that impact on health is difficult. Though, increase in the budget of medicine and health care does not impact positively on individual's health. The immense community health advances of the nineteenth century that saw spectacular development in health related to sanitation, water supply, public education, structural & legislative changes, living conditions and proceed in health concerned remain considerable these days.

Discussion

The determinants of health are such factors that have a strong influence on individual's health and also have an impact on society. Usually, economic, social, natural and political environment are such factors that impacts on both individual's health and society. The social determinant includes family, friend, culture, society, ethics and educational background. The economic determinant includes income, unemployment and occupational status. The natural environment includes surroundings, your neighbours, town, transportation, infrastructure, quality life standards and health and safety standards. The political environment includes political system, governance and trust on government (Baum, F 2008 Pp. 21-25). Such factors do not essentially influence physical condition openly but can act as prevailing channel during which primary inherited, health risks or existing illnesses can be prejudiced.

Kogarah is situated 15km south of the Sydney CBD in the province of New South Wales; it covers almost 20 square kilometres and has a population of around 60000 people. It is a part of the St George region. Kogarah City is predominantly residential, with most of the housing types found in the City comprising of separate houses. This presents rising housing pressures as the population continues to grow. Urban development in Kogarah leads the countryside character, where most of the land is utilized for house enlargement, business centres, transport and roads, open spaces and to a lesser degree light industrial development.

Although, whole New South Wales is the major consumer of energy and water and they are adopting the strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy savings and water use. The most energy consuming items in Kogarah are boilers, heaters, use of high voltage bulbs and air conditioners. According to a study in Kogarah, a normal house could ...