Determinants of Health

environmental

Built

Indoor air quality

Can help body temp, provides oxygen, can cause spread of sickness

Add text

Walkability

Uneven ground can cause people to trip and hurt themselves, saftey hazards,

Add text

Transport

Bad for the enviorment (pollution), encourages the spread of sickness

Add text

Greenspace

Good/bad airflow, can provide places to excersise, can help build social skills like on the playground

Add text

Environmental noise

Can negatively affect wildlife, can also impact hearing and can cause sleep disturbances and high blood pressure

Add text

Housing

Can provide saftey and shelther but also bills, gas leaks and house fires.

Add text

Definition: Anything that acts on the body and can be linked to a change in health can be considered a enviormental determent of health.

Natural

Extreme weather

Droughts, Tsunamis, tornado, fires

Add text

UV radiation

Heat stroke, sun burn/poisoning, can supply you with essential vitamin D, can cause skin cancer

Add text

Vector agents

Can transmit diseases

Add text

Outdoor air quality

Smoke from fires can cause breathing issues

Add text

Food and water quality

Unclean water and bad food quality can cause serious illnesses

Add text

Socio-economic

Income

money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.

harms children's health, social and emotional wellbeing, and education

Add text

Employment

the state of having paid work.

Unemployment can make it more difficult for individuals to meet their basic needs.

Add text

Definition: Refers to society related economic factors. These factors effect each other.

Education

the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

Higher crime rates, exposing residents to greater risk of trauma and deaths from violence and the stress of living in unsafe neighborhoods.

Access to services

the ability of people to reach places and services and the ability of places to be reached by people and goods

Add text

Social

Stress

a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.

high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, obesity and diabetes.

Add text

Early life

The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty

The more adverse experiences in childhood, the greater the likelihood of developmental delays and other problems.

Add text

Food

any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.

coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, some forms of cancer, type 2 diabetes, dental caries, gall bladder disease and nutritional anaemias

Add text

Definition: Conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.

Transport

a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place.

rescheduled or missed appointments, delayed care, and missed or delayed medication use.

Add text

Social exclusion

exclusion from the prevailing social system and its rights and privileges, typically as a result of poverty or the fact of belonging to a minority social group.

lowered self-esteem, greater anger, inability to reason well, depression and anxiety, and self-defeating perceptions and behaviours.

Add text