This assessment will cover the following questions:
- Define health inequalities and equalities and how it influences the behaviour of the individual.
- What are the three determinants of health and its implications for health at individual and at whole society.
- What are the factors that influences the health status as well as social aspect of health?
- Identify the determinants of health, health equality, health inequality and briefly explain with the help of example.
INTRODUCTION
Determinants of Health refers to the variety of factors that impacts health state of individuals or groups. It includes social, behavioural, biological, economic and physical determinants that influence the health of people adversely (Adler, Glymour and Fielding, 2016). Health inequities are characterised as the systematic differences in status of health of different groups of population. This report covers the concept of health and health inequality along with different determinants of health. The ill effects of smoking, disability and bad housing condition are determined. Apart from this, the facts and figures associated with determinants in context of UK and government strategies, policies or laws to minimise those are included in this report.