Social Determinant Of Health Essay

There are different issues that affect the health of people. Whether they become healthy is dependent on their situation and where they live. Factors including where we live, education, level of income, genetics, access to health care services and much more has a significant influence on our health. The determinants of health are factors which influence a person’s state of health.

The image above is an example of a social determinant of health. The social determinant of health involves the condition in which people are born, live, grow and work (WHO, 2010).

The image above shows school going aged children within the ages of eight to ten who are working on an illegal mining site. These children are not supposed to be working at their age moreover

It is established that as a person goes higher in their academic career they have a greater opportunity in earning higher incomes, good employment opportunities as well as an improvement in their daily living conditions (WHO,2014, as cited Swain et al.,2014). Evidence suggests that children who have access to good early childhood education tend to earn a good income, low crime rate, reduction in teenage pregnancies, improved adult health status and decrease behavioural risk factors (Muennig et al.,2011 as cited in Swain et

Access to equity health care

Access to healthcare is considered as an important component to the determinants of health. Access to healthcare is relative to the mortality rate as seen in developing countries.

Access to health does not only relate to how available the services are but also how they are delivered at the point of care. People should have access to equity healthcare which means the provision of fair goods and services and opportunities needed for the physical, psychological and spiritual health (McGibbon, Etowa & McPherson, 2008). These health services can be made available through the creation of more public clinics and hospitals. Several studies done in developing countries indicates that introducing medical user fees leads to reducing utilization which tends to affect the poor (CSDH, 2008).

Affordable health care services will be considered to be a way of encouraging people to utilize the health care services that are being