Health Hygiene & Sanitation

Lesson 04 : Determinants Of Health

Introduction

Health is multi factorial, depends on the interplay of a number of complex factors which exert their influence on life style of an individual. Some of the factors which influence health are beyond the control of the individual, while others are more traceable to personal manipulation. Some of the factors lie within the individual while others are externally present in the environment where the person lives. Former are quite often referred to as genetic and latter as environmental. Both these factors interact and may turn out to be promoting or deleterious to health.