Healthy individuals.

People’s health is a result of internal and external factors. Describe two factors and explain their effects on people’s health.

There are numbers of factors which effects people’s health.The factors, which affect human health can be dividing into two categories: internal and external factors.

Some internal factors considered to be important in psychological aspects. Like knowledge about risk factors and risk reduction, attitudes, beliefs, social and life adaptation skills.

Some external factors are important in social support, media, public sectors, economic and political factors, biologic, health care system, environmental and societal laws and regulations. These are the factors we cannot control for example environmental, family upbringing.

This essay will concentrate firstly on psychological aspects, as a part of internal factors and secondly on environmental and social aspects, as a part of external factors. Block 3, Open University.

The internal factors of psychosocial health are very important. This part is harder to see because it is what is inside you. These are factors which includes self-efficacy, personality changes when we mature. Some of them are hormonal functioning, physical health status, physical fitness level, and mental and emotional health.

Psychological health factors we could divide in being:

 mentally well, it gives us the ability to reason, interpretation, sorting information and making decisions.

l, and mental and emotional health.

Psychological health factors we could divide in being: emotionally are actually intensified feelings or complex patterns of feelings.

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...to do with all this, because depending on how mentally and physically strong you are, internal and external things affect you.

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