Who defines the social factors of health as: the living and working environment determined by people's social status and resources and other factors that have an impact on health, in addition to those factors that directly lead to diseases.
The decisive factors of a healthy society are considered as the fundamental causes of people's health and diseases, including all social and environmental characteristics of people from birth, growth, life, work to aging, such as income, education, drinking water and sanitation facilities, living conditions, community isolation and so on. It also reflects people's different status in social structure in terms of class, power and wealth.
In WHO's concept of determinants of a healthy society, its core value concept is health equity, which embodies the idea that "health is a basic human right and will not change due to race, religion, political beliefs, economic or social conditions".
Behavioral Framework of Determinants of a Healthy Society
In the report Bridging the Generation Gap, CSDH puts forward the action framework of determinants of a healthy society, integrates various determinants of a healthy society, and discusses how to use the theory of determinants of a healthy society to solve global health problems.
The framework divides the social determinants of health into daily living environment and social structure factors.
Daily living environment refers to the environment in which people are born, grow up, live, work and get old. The rightmost column in the map includes physical environment, social support, social psychological factors, behavioral factors and biological factors.
Social structural factors refer to the social structural factors that determine the daily living environment, and reflect the different distribution modes of power, wealth and resources. In the picture, the middle column is the social structural factors at the individual level, including social status, education, occupation, income, gender, race and nationality; The leftmost column is the social structural factors at the macro-social level, which refers to the social political and economic environment, mainly including political governance, social policy culture, social norms and values.