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They are non-medical factors that influence health outcomes and have a direct correlation with health equity. This includes: Access to health education, community and social context, access to quality healthcare, food security, neighborhood and physical environment, and economic stability.
Education has a lasting, continuous, and increasing effect on health. [1] Education is a special determinant of health because it enables people toward self-direction, which leads them to seek goals such as health. [1] Education helps the impoverished develop usable skills, abilities, and resources that help individuals reach goals, including ...
Health can be considered a capital good; health capital is part of human capital as defined by the Grossman model. [30] Health can be considered both an investment good and consumption good. [31] Factors such as obesity and smoking have negative effects on health capital, while education, wage rate, and age may also impact health capital. [31]
The relationship between education and health was expanded in the model by Isaac Ehrlich. [5] Regarding the relationship between education and medical care demand, one important question is whether the marginal efficiency of capital elasticity with respect to education is less than or greater than one.
Jere Behrman's research revolves around the empirical determinants and impacts of human resources such as early childhood development, education, health and nutrition in the presence of unobserved factors (e.g. innate ability or health), the economics of households and imperfect markets, and the economic consequences of imperfect information. [8]
Interventions in population health "shift the distribution of health risk by addressing the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions" [7] and are implemented through "programs or policies designed and developed in the health sector, but they are more likely to be in sectors elsewhere, such as education, housing or employment". [7]
For example, limitations in public health surveys in the United States to collect data on race, ethnicity, and nativity; (2) Institutionalized exclusion – codification of exclusionary social structures in research practices, instruments, and scientific models resulting in an inherent bias in favor of the normative group.
Complexity: Health promotion often involves multiple strategies and targets various determinants of health simultaneously. Ethical considerations: Randomized controlled trials, often considered the gold standard in medical research, may not always be feasible or ethical in community-based health promotion. [22]