[PDF] 4 determinants of health pdhpe

The determinants of health are: individual, sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. This is essentially a list of what influences the health of individuals. The determinants will come up over and over again both in Preliminary PDHPE and in HSC PDHPE. Therefore, understanding them deeply is a must.
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  • What are the 4 determinants of health?

    Health is influenced by many factors, which may generally be organized into five broad categories known as determinants of health: genetics, behavior, environmental and physical influences, medical care and social factors. These five categories are interconnected.

  • What is Blum's model of health determinants?

    Blum's Model of Health Determinants explains that there are four factors that contribute to the overall health of an individual: lifestyle, environment, medical services and heredity. Blum argued that each factor affects health to a different degree.

  • What are individual determinants?

    Biological and genetic determinants are fixed individual characteristics that we cannot control, such as age, sex, and family history of disease. Behavioral determinants are modifiable individual characteristics that we have some control over, such as diet, exercise, and tobacco use.
  • Modifiable means that it can be changed and as such it can be controlled to a certain extend. Below is a list of the determinants which are modifiable: knowledge, skills, attitude (individual) peers, religion (sociocultural)
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