Dear Dr Faiza Meer
First of all thank you for sharing your valuable issue by me!
My field is green chemistry and environmental ..., but your question touch me deeply. according to my experience , I think:
Analysis of exposure over the life-course to advantage and disadvantage shows that these negative and positive factors and processes accumulate over
time, influencing epigenetical, psychosocial, physiological,and behavioural
attributes among individuals as well as social conditions in families, communities,and social groups including gender. This accumulation of
advantage and disadvantage leads to social and economic inequities and
consequently to inequitable mental and physical health outcomes.
These processes are dynamic, in the sense that the accumulation of positive and negative influences takes place throughout life.These processes of accumulation leads to the factors that most immediately affect mental health, and indicates the need for action at every
stage of life.
Accept my best regards , Parisa
Faiza - psycho-social determinants of health, to me, are the wider health promotion agendas that dictate the fact that preventative population health is determined at both the lifespan and settings-based level. They are the essence of 'love, work and play' - and may not involve 'traditional' health services and merely the 'absence of disease'.
The attached article may assist.
Faiza
WHO definition: The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems.
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en/
For clinical aplication in Primary Care (for exemple) maybe you can use tools like these:
CLEAR TOOLKIT: https://www.mcgill.ca/clear/download
See also CLEAR COLLABORATION: https://www.mcgill.ca/clear/
Health status is characterized by different complex interactions between several socio-economic factors, in close interdependence with the physical environment and the behavior of each person. These factors are called "determinants of health". Their action is not isolated but the combination of their effects on health. Each country has its own determinants. The characterization of health determinants is not the same from a poor country to a rich country. For example, a developed country like Canada has 12 determinants.
Dear Dr Faiza Meer
First of all thank you for sharing your valuable issue by me!
My field is green chemistry and environmental ..., but your question touch me deeply. according to my experience , I think:
Analysis of exposure over the life-course to advantage and disadvantage shows that these negative and positive factors and processes accumulate over
time, influencing epigenetical, psychosocial, physiological,and behavioural
attributes among individuals as well as social conditions in families, communities,and social groups including gender. This accumulation of
advantage and disadvantage leads to social and economic inequities and
consequently to inequitable mental and physical health outcomes.
These processes are dynamic, in the sense that the accumulation of positive and negative influences takes place throughout life.These processes of accumulation leads to the factors that most immediately affect mental health, and indicates the need for action at every
stage of life.
Accept my best regards , Parisa
The conditions that contribute to a person's health are varied-biological, socio-economic, socio-cultural, behavioral or psychosocial factors.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘psychosocial’ as ‘pertaining to the influence of social factors [norms, political systems, cultural systems, economic systems] on an individual’s mind or behavior, and to the interrelation of behavioral and social factors.' Therefore, the psycho-social determinants of health are the relationship that one's personality, mood states, cognitive factors and social environment have with his/her physical health.
The roots of ‘psychosocial health’ lie in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.' Many insanity situations, suicidal, depressions, psychological traumas, and seizures are sometimes attributed to the psycho-social state of persons. The general health conditions of individuals are improved when their psycho-social environment is favorable. Thanks for the enlightenment via this question. Best regards
Dickson Adom
Born in a zip code with low-socioeconomic status will affect health outcome throughout the life.
Others are early childhood exposure, market, poverty, unemployment, transportation, social support, family cohesion, food supply, religious belief, and type of welfare state.
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Good Day,
Please, see the first poster which is about the "Determination of Health", and the second poster which is about "How Determinants Influence Health Outcomes",...
https://www.slideshare.net/aneez103/psycho-social-dynamics-in-causation-of-disease
https://www.slideshare.net/zamaka7/jessicas-presentation-sdh
Health is wealth & generally for every human beings to remain healthy he should practice certain norms of physical exercise , to keep his behavior approach calm & quite ,to keep certain habit to come out from the daily & official routine .To make the environment of the family joyful & pleasurable & last but not the least to keep a controlled diet habits. This would certainly keep us to live in healthy habits.
Very often our friends & the members of our relative society offend give us a example of our healthy outlook due to our habits & this will certainly prove that Health is wealth .
This personal opinion
To add to the comments above: the psycho-social determinants of health may also be referring to the co-occurrence of mental disorders with physical conditions or illnesses, which contribute to increased mortality. Examples include the high prevalence of depression in those with chronic illness such as cancer or diabetes, or the higher prevalence of disordered eating or obesity in psychiatric patients.
Hi Faiza, adding to the contributions above I would cite a specific example of a powerful impact of social and psychological environments and contexts on people's health and wellbeing. This is the issue of loneliness and isolation, which met-analyses show have a profound and significant impact on overall mortality - for example see work by Holt-Lunstad et al http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 which finds that the impact on mortality rates of being socially isolated is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day.
Similarly there is major research showing the many negative impacts of bullying and discrimination on health, similarly multiple negative health and social consequences of early childhood trauma and adversity.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
how person start his day is an very important determinant of Psycho-social health.
I agree with Carolines answer - from a Health Psychology perspective, I use the term "psychosocial" to discuss how an individual interprets/perceives (psychologically) the events that are happening around them (socially, eg: peer pressure, divorce; unemployment; bullying; bereavement). Sometimes, if the individual reacts in a certain/ineffective way, mental health issues may arise.
I will use a simple example off the top of my head: Peer pressure.
At almost every age of life, we are faced with peer pressure. Some people can handle/resist peer pressure effectively and they go through life with relative ease. However some others do not cope so well - the absence of an effective coping mechanism can manifest in different ways in different individuals, including anxiety or depression or eating disorders or another mental health condition, for instance. So for the individual who has a mental health condition in this case, a psychosocial factor/cause/trigger of their condition may be peer pressure.
Psychosocial factors are not usually this simple and numerous factors come into play at once but for the purpose of explaining the meaning, I tried to keep my example linear.
I hope this helps!
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