Determinants of health
From the perspective of health education, the factors affecting health are divided into the following four categories:
1. Behavioral and lifestyle factors
It means that people's own bad behaviors and lifestyles bring direct or indirect harm to the health of individuals, groups and even society. It has the characteristics of latent attack, accumulation and extensive influence on the body.
2. Environmental factors
It refers to the external world with people as the main body, or the sum of objective events around people. Including natural environment and social environment.
3. Biological factors
Including pathogenic microorganisms, heredity, growth and development, aging, personal biological characteristics (including age, sex, shape and health status, etc.). )
4. Health service factors
Health service elements refer to the activity process in which health institutions and health professionals use health resources and various means in a planned and purposeful way to provide necessary services to individuals, groups and society in order to prevent diseases and improve health.
Health related behavior
Health-related behaviors refer to the behaviors of individuals or groups related to health and diseases, which are generally divided into two categories: behaviors that promote health and behaviors that endanger health.
(1) Health promotion behaviors: daily health behaviors, health care behaviors, behaviors of avoiding harmful environment, behaviors of quitting bad habits, behaviors of warning, behaviors of seeking medical treatment, behaviors of obeying medical treatment, behaviors of patients' roles, etc.
(2) Behaviors endangering health: refers to objectively unhealthy behaviors that deviate from the health expectations of individuals, others and even society.
1) Bad lifestyle: such as smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, bad living habits, etc.
The influence of unhealthy lifestyle on people's health has the following characteristics: ① long incubation period; ② poor specificity; ③ Strong synergy; (4) high variability; ⑤ widespread.
2) Pathogenic behavior patterns: such as type A behavior and type C behavior.
3) Bad disease behaviors: such as self-abandonment, hiding disease behaviors, fear behaviors, etc.