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Social Determinant Approach To Health Essay

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How is the social determinant approach used in healthy people 2020 to combat tobacco use, obesity, and physical inactivity-three of the leading contributors to morbidity and mortality in America?
Tobacco use, obesity, and physical inactivity are the leading contributors to morbidity and mortality in the United States. We can decrease the morbidity and mortality of the three leading contributors.
Around 16 million Americans have diseases related to smoking such as lung diseases, diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), erectile dysfunction, and vascular diseases, smoking has a role in increasing the risk for many diseases such as tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and certain eye diseases. Around 6 million …show more content…

The person is considered obese when the body mass index is 30 or more, more than 30 percent of the United States adults are obese, and the obesity is a risk factor for many diseases such as heart diseases, lipid abnormality, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and cancer.
Obesity occurs due to eating a large amount of food, and or eating high-calorie food, and lack of physical activity, annually, 300,000 deaths in the United States due to obesity.
To reduce the obesity epidemics in the United States through food policies such as increasing the prices and taxes of unhealthy food, and decreasing the prices and taxed of healthy food, making healthy food images more attractive than unhealthy food, encouraging vending machine companies to replace snacks, chocolate, sweetened beverages by organic food, fruits and vegetable, also physical activity has a role in controlling obesity through regular exercise.
Physical inactivity is a leading cause to morbidity and mortality, physical inactivity can cause obesity, and as I mentioned above the obesity causes many diseases, to limit physical inactivity that needs well-designed community with parks, bike path, sidewalks, street lightening, physical education classes, and physical activities in the school, all of these encourage children and adult to do physical

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