Chapter 2

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What factors influence health outcomes?
Behavior, biology, and social factors
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What are determinants of health?
Personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health
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What are the main categories of determinants of health?
Policymaking, social factors, health services, individual behavior, and biology and genetics
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How does policymaking improve population health?
Through policies like tobacco taxes and traffic laws
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What is individual behavior in health?
Personal actions that affect disease risk
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What is an example of individual behavior that reduces disease risk?
Quitting smoking or exercising
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What are examples of individual health behaviors?
Diet, physical activity, substance use, and hygiene practices
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How do biology and genetics affect health?
They influence health risks across populations
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What are examples of biological factors affecting health?
Age, sex, HIV status, inherited diseases, and family history
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What is human behavior?
Responses to internal and external stimuli including actions and emotions
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What is health behavior?
Actions taken to promote or protect health
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How are health behaviors different from risk behaviors?
They protect health rather than increase disease risk
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What is lifestyle?
Patterns of behavior shaped by values, beliefs, and environment
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How do unhealthy lifestyles affect health?
They contribute to chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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What are examples of healthy lifestyle habits?
Proper diet, exercise, sleep, hydration, and stress management
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What are social determinants of health?
Conditions in which people live, learn, work, and age
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What are examples of social determinants?
Education, income, safety, discrimination, and transportation
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What are physical determinants of health?
Built and natural environments that affect health
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How do health services influence health outcomes?
Through access and quality of care
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What are common barriers to health services?
Cost, availability, insurance, and language barriers
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What is required to develop a healthy lifestyle?
Long-term psychological, behavioral, and dietary changes
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What lifestyle areas often need improvement?
Nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress, and supplements
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What is the DOH Go4Health Program?
A Philippine initiative to prevent noncommunicable diseases
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Why are lifestyle programs important?
They reduce NCDs, improve productivity, and promote healthy living
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What shapes overall health according to the summary?
Behavior, environment, biology, and policy


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