Discussion Forum for Lecture-03

Determinants of health

Determinants of health

by Rabeya Khatun -
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1.What do you mean by the term determinant?Write in your own language.   
Ans:Determinant is a function which as an input accepts matrix and output is a real complex number that is called the determinant.
2.Please enlist the determinants of health.
Ans: Health is influenced by many factors ,which may generally be organized into five broad categories known as determinants of health:
  • Policymaking
  • social factors
  • health services
  • individual behaviour
  • biology and genetics
Other determinants of health-
  • food and agriculture
  • education
  • science and technology
  • standard of living
  • social justice,equity,human rights
  • govt. polices to raise stand of living
  • inter sectoral contributions
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