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MODULE-3 Introduction to Health

Holistic Health
Socio-economic Conditions

Our income, educational level, nutritional status, employment and health services
are included in socio-economics conditions.
a) Income: Level of income would affect our health. A wealthy
person has the capacity to go for better medical treatment and
for poor it is not possible. So you can say our income has an
Note impact on our health.
b) Education: Educational status has an influence on health,
especially female educational status. Education helps us to
understand the importance of clean and conducive environment,
better lifestyle, good food habits as well as maintaining good
health.

c) Nutrition: Our socio-economic status decides what will be in
our plate to eat. If we are economically sound then we can
have better nutritional food. But it is a misconception that only
rich can have nutritional food, there are lots of food stuff
available in market which a poor man can have. But they must
have knowledge about it. Poor diet or starvation has an adverse effect on
our health; so try to have good nutritional food which is essential for normal
growth and help to fight against infection.

d) Occupation: Our occupation plays a deciding factor in
determining our health. If we are better employed then
we can have better income and work environment. Better
employed persons have easy access to health care but it
is not possible in case of unemployed person due to lack
of money.

e) Health services: It is believed that if we wish to go for
better health services that requires lots of money. That is
true in larger context. Better health services like safe and
pure water supply and timely immunization cost a lot, but
they prevent us from lots of illness.

External

External factors could be anything. It could be an accident,
sudden trauma or injury, your exposure to electromagnetic
frequencies by the use of laptops, mobile phones, remote
keys, wireless networks, working conditions and hours etc.
It also relates with use of chemicals in our personal care
items. The influence of external factors on our health is
very huge and it is required to address for better and healthy life.

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