Medical Laboratory Technology
Community Medicine and Epidemiology
Health:
“A state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”
This is the utopian definition of health, “complete physical, mental and social well-being” is neither practical nor feasible. According to this definition, health is no static entity, but it resembles a pendulum oscillating between positive health and death.
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| Health and its determinants |
Determinants of health
Health is a combined property of man and his environment. These are all the factors, ultimately, who determine the health of the individual.
1 Genes
Genes will continue to produce ailments and we can at most go for genetic screening and counseling of high-risk parents.
2 Environment
a) Internal environment. The cause of majority of noncommunicable disease like ischemic heart diseases, diabetes, etc.
b) External environment. Most communicable diseases/“environmental” diseases are due to the external environment. The external environment can be divided into physical, biological and psychosocial components—each of which affects health.
3 Lifestyle
It is‘the way people live’. It includes culture, behavior, and personal habits(smoking, etc.). Lifestyle develops from a combined influence of peers, parents,siblings, teachers and media (television, internet).
4 Socioeconomy
a) Economic status. It determines the purchasing power, standard of living, quality of life and disease pattern.
b) Education. The world map of poverty, unemployment, communicable diseases closely coincides with that of illiteracy.
c) Occupation. Unemployment leads to high morbidity and mortality, psychic and social disorders (like eveteasing).
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