DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH:-

A) INDIVIDUAL:-

1) GENETIC:- Herediatory factor is one of the causes of certain disease. The genetic characters inhereted from parents are responsible for giving rise to some kind of illhealth. eg. there are greater chances that the children of diabetic parents may suffer from diabetes. The state of health therefore depends partly on the genetic constitution of individual.

2) LIFE STYLE:- The way of style attitude towards life and awareness regarding healthy living all affects the health of individual. The life style affects health in both the ways ie. it may maintain health or it may adversly affect the health.

B) ENVIRONMENTAL:-

1) SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT :- The way of life of human beings is governed by the set of rules and regulations framed and accepted byt the society in which they live. Many customs and traditions of a particular human society may affect healty of individual. Development of society plays important role in getting rid from health hazardous customs and traditions.Socioeconomic development and growth of society is multifactorial in nature. Integrated effords of different sectors result in the development of society. Thus inprovement in economic, educational, cultural sectors can collectively cause development of society. It is essential to realize that we are very much of the health is "not merely" an issue in isolation, but very much a part of the development process.

2) POLITICAL WILL:- If we look at the causes of illhealth then we can see that thepoverty is the root cause. The poor people living in slums, lacking good hygeinic conditions are the targets of disease agents. People in rural areas who do not have access to health seevices, and who can't afford to pay for medical treatment are too the victims of ill health. How far the policy makers are aware of the health problems of this group of people is issue primarily of political nature.The policies framed and implemented with the object of maintaining and promoting health of these people can certainly affect status of these communities.