Social Determinants Of Health

Health is a serious and very delicate matter, health does not only revolve around one idea or situation. Health has many different perspectives and definitions that come cross when talking about society or an individual, and how they manage their lifestyles when comparing it to their day to day life activities. Factors such as unemployment, lack of education, living in unhealthy environments and unsanitary, play a major role towards how an individual presents his or herself and where they rank when compared to the society. For some individuals it is hard to provide for their family or even themselves cause them to be one of the few people that suffer in poverty and cannot do anything about it. Nowadays, students do not understand the true value
This is where social determinants comes into play as a course for students to gain the knowledge and share with others and make a difference that other people failed at doing and help end these factors, that create a gap in society, one individual at a time. Society’s perspective towards the causes and maintaining of diseases. Before taking the social determinants course the causes of diseases was a general acknowledgment by us individuals thinking that diseases occur genetically or were only causes by people living in unhealthy environments. Before social determinants, not only me but society in general, the knowledge of healthy living was very general, it was believed that the only reason an individual faced diseases or life threating risks was because lack of physical activity, unhealthy dietary choice and lack of income. The causes of diseases were generally understood by not having a strong immune system which lead that body not being able to fight off the diseases and lead to chronic threat (Lynn, 2013). Lack of physical fitness and activities
Housing conditions were also consistent because it was generally known that living in a house was a better solution to stay away from diseases and to maintain proper health. Physical activity and dietary consumption were also consistent to health before taking the course as being physical and performing tasks on daily basis is a way to stay healthy and strong fighting back the bacteria and eating healthy also helps strengthen the immune system allowing the human body to be less affective when exposed to diseases and these are also very good health maintaining technique. One specific perspective that was consistent is the flight or fight reaction which allows physiological response to danger or threat to survival. This allows the body to react to the situation and form an outcome reaction which would help the body try to maintain a positive environment or react in a way to push the body to move to a safer place while fighting the germs and bacteria. Social determines has shown many different roles health takes in society, from the knowledge contained before taking the course and after taking social determinants this course has shown what goes on in the