1.1.5

Question 1

Determinants of health

Answer 1

Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a population or individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict trends in health and why some groups have better or worse health than others.
PEBBS (Physical environment, Biological, Behavioural, Social)

Question 2

Biological determinants

Answer 2

Factors relating to the body that impact on health, such as genetics, hormones, body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol levels

Question 3

Mortality

Answer 3

The number of deaths caused by a particular disease, illness or other environmental factors.

Question 4

Morbidity

Answer 4

Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group