Health, Health Determinants and the EU summary

Week 1: Determinants of Health This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).  CO1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO1) What are some factors that make some people healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020 identifies five determinants of health that influence the health of individuals and populations. Healthy People 2020 describes them as "a range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status" (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, About Determinants of Health, para. 1). Determinants fall into five categories, including (a) policy making, (b) social factors, (c) health services, (d) individual behavior, and (e) biology and genetics.  Go to the Determinants of Health link at measures/Determinants-of-Health (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and click on each determinant to read about it.  Choose one of the five determinants other than individual behavior (as we are all aware of how individual behavior impacts health). In your post, describe this determinant and its importance.  Discuss how a community health nurse (CHN) could use one of the 17 intervention categories from the Public Health Intervention Wheel to address this determinant (Nies & McEwen, 2015). Dear Professor and Class, The one of the five determinants that I choose is Social Factors. According to Healthy People 2020, Social determinants of health reflect the social factors and physical conditions of the environment in which people are born, live, learn, play, work, and age. Availability of resources to meet is an example of Social factors. If you live in a country and many people do that have minimal resources to healthful foods, there is going to be deficiencies. This is very important because without these resources there is no way for people to get the right nutrients. Social determinants of health such as poverty, unequal access to health care, lack of education, stigma, and racism are underlying, contributing factors of health inequities. Social factors are extremely important to your health. Some social factors are easily changed, some are hard, and some cannot be changed. We are learning more and more every day on how we can change some that a few years ago we thought could not be changed. For example, if soil is contaminated and or not right for growing food we now can use hydroponics to grow above ground