The health of a community evaluated by considering many factors, these factors can be grouped into different categories called as determinants of health, which mainly includes genetics, behavior, environmental and physical influences, medical care and social factors.
All these factors have a direct impact on the health of individuals. The impact of these factors can be evaluated on health by comparing various health indicators.
Social factors are also called social determinants of health (SDOH). The SDOH is the socioeconomic conditions prevailing in society that have an influence on the health of the people. Social determinants of health consist of a wide range of factors such as education, employment, economic policies, physical environment, public safety, healthy transport systems, social status and support policies, and many others. As per the WHO, SDOH are the 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.
SDOH is an essential health element as it relies on bringing “Health equity” (or equity in health)‘. It reduce health disparities as it avoids any unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people based on their social, economical, and geographical differences.
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