Health is a multifactorial phenomenon

HEALTH AS A MULTIFACTORIAL PHENOMENON

FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH

A. POLITICAL

Involves one's leadership how/she rules, manages and other people in decision making.

1. Safety

- the condition of being free from harm, injury or loss of authority or power

2. Oppression

- unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power

3. Political will

- determination to pursue something which is for the interest of the

majority.

4. Empowerment

- the ability of a person to do something

- creating the circumstances where people can use their faculties and

abilities at the maximum level in the pursuit of common goals

B. CULTURAL

- relating to the representation of non-physical traits, such as values, beliefs, attitudes and customs shared by a group of people and passed from the generation to the next.

1. Practices

- a customary action usually done to maintain or promote health like use

of anting-anting and lucky charms.

2. Beliefs

- a state or habit of mind wherein a group of people place into something

or a person.

C. HEREDITY

- the genetic transmission of traits from parents to offspring; genetically

determined.

D. ENVIRONMENT

- the sum of all the conditions and elements that make up the surroundings

and influence the development of the individuals.

E. SOCIO-ECONOMIC

- refers to the production activities, distribution of and consumption of goods

of an individual.