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    main determinants of health, these are social determinants, biomedical risk factors and behavioral risk factors. All these determine how long people are likely to stay healthy or avoid injury (Australia Institution of Health and Welfare, 2016). Social determinants of health refer to the social and economic conditions that influence people’s health status such as living, working and growing conditions (National Rural Health Alliance LTD, 2017), for example people with poorer social determinants have

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    the social gradient. Throughout life, poor social and economic circumstances seem to affect health, and those people further below the social ladder seem to have twice the chance of serious illnesses or premature death, compared to those near the top (Marmot & Wilkinson, 2006). Another main determinant of health according to Wilkinson and Marmot (2003), is stress. It can be caused by many factors from studying, work and relationships. It is hypothesised to be a major influence in the social determinants

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    people who are homeless. When I thought about this more, I linked it with the social determinants of health, and the fact that that the less a person meets the social determinants of health the more vulnerable and marginalized they are. For example, if someone does not have stable income they most likely will not have a house that has good living conditions or no house at all. Another part that fits in is the fact that social status, gender and culture also play a part in the overall health of individuals

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    health can be affected by many factors such as housing, income and environment. This essay will define and explain the term ‘social determinants of health’, discuss why housing, income and environment are considered social determinants of health and how these determinants can have a negative affect on one’s health. The World Health Organisation posits that the social determinants of health (SDoH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and

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    Determinants of Health and Childhood Obesity The Determinates of health are social factors that contribute to an individual’s overall health. On April 2014, an article was published in The Toronto Star Magazine discussing the recent increase of obesity rates in children and the dangers associated with this rise (Sick Kids, 2014). Theresa Boyle discusses the cause of high risk factors in adolescents, and the different health conditions that can result from obesity such as: stroke, heart disease

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    other literature, and is contributed to by many interconnected and interdependent social determinants of health negatively affecting this minority. The focal point of this research has been identifying the main ‘upstream’ social determinants – also referred to as ‘distal’ determinants – and thoroughly investigating their impact on Indigenous health. This issuing will examine and link the following distal determinants as the primary causes for the existing intolerable state of Aboriginal and Torres

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    that have taken place around the world in the last 60 years. Already in 1948, the World Health Organization declared that health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not

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    Factors like where people live, their environment, their income, their relationships, their education, and genetics affect a person’s health; these are known as the social determinants of health. This paper will be discussing which social determinants of health affect the rates of diabetes in the Aboriginal population of Canada. The determinants of health that this paper will cover are income, physical environment, and education. This paper will also use the Population Health Promotion Model (PHPM) to

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    care and wellbeing is not just the physical well-being of the individual but includes the social, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the individual and community (Sherwood & Edwards, 2006). Rather than focusing on isolating the specific cause of illness, health initiatives for Aboriginal communities look beyond the traditional biomedical model and adopt a model that incorporates the broader social determinants of health, which focus on Aboriginal societal structures and psychosocial factors (Dudgeon

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    Social determinants of health can be referred to as the living conditions that can affect an individuals’s health. Some of these determinants of health include; qualify of life during infancy, education, employment, working conditions, food security, gender, health care services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social exclusion, employment security and aboriginal status (Raphael, D., 2010, Pg 148). Those with higher socio-economic status; such as the upperclass and the upper

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