Topic 3 AOS 1 - Sociocultural factors affecting health status and behaviours of youth

Question 1

What is a sociocultural factor?

Answer 1

help determine an individual’s or populations health and wellbeing, and are considered to be anything related to the social and cultural conditions into which people are born, grow, live, work and age.

Question 2

What are the 7 sociocultural factors (3 of which relate to socioeconomic status)

Answer 2

1. family
2. housing
3. peer group
4. Access to health information (including through digital technologies)

and the three socioeconomic status factos:
1. education
2. employment
3. income

Question 3

What is a health behaviour?

Answer 3

An action relating to ones health that can have a positive or negative impact on their health and wellbeing or health status

++ say a health behaviour and relate it back to a heath indicator and then say it improves or lowers health status++

Question 4

as mortality rates, the prevalence of chronic conditions and the rate of

Peer group impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 4

impact on health behaviours:
1. influences participation in physical activity
2. positive social network
3. may encourage unhealthy, risk-taking behaviour

impact on health status:
1. decreases weight gain, increases fitness increasing life expectancy
2. decreases likelihood of mental ilness, reducing incidence and prevalence
3. increases risk ok accidents and contributing to burden of disease

Question 5

family impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 5

impact on health behaviours:
1. Healthy food habits
2. Encouragement of regular physical activity
3. Strong family relationships
4. family being in a low SES group can impact the physical health and wellbeing of youth

impact on health status:
1and 2. Decrease risk of weight gain and other associated conditions in later life increasing life expectancy
3. Decrease risk of mental illness and morbidity
4. mortality rates, the prevalence of chronic conditions and the rate of avoidable deaths are all higher and life expectancy is lower among those with lower SES status.

Question 6

Education
impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 6

impact on health behaviours:
1. Encourage health promotion activities, and discourage tobacco smoking and negative health behaviours
2. greater levels of education links with increased income in the future
3. higher educational attainment is less likely to be obese

impact on health status:
1. When messages are followed, decrease risk-taking behaviour and therefore accidents and injuries improving health status
2. allows individual to pay for health services decreases burden of disease and increasing life-expecftancy, improving health status
3. decreasing burden of disease and improving health status

Question 7

Employment
impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 7

impact on health behaviours:
1.Acquisition of lifelong skills
2. New friendships formed
3. unpleasent working conditions

impact on health status:
1 and 2. Increase self-esteem confidence, decrease risk of mental illness improving life expectancy
3. increASE BURDEN OF DISEse from injury

Question 8

income
impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 8

impact on health behaviours:
1. Allows the consumption of healthier and nutritious foods, which are more expensive
2. Participation in sports and recreational activities
3. having a low income dont have access to a number of recources and experience social exclusion

impact on health status:
1 and 2. Decrease risk of overweight and obesity and other related conditions - decrease in morbidity
3. increasing phychological distress and lowering ocerall health status

Question 9

Access to health information
impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 9

impact on health behaviours:
1.Young people tend to search online first for health information. Can be reluctant to seek face-to-face medical advice, depending on the situation.

impact on health status:
Incorrect diagnosis can lead to further health complications.
- However, when seeking correct medical advice, morbidity decreased.

Question 10

Housing impact on health behaviours and impact on health status

Answer 10

impact on health behaviours:
1. -Inadequate housing includes overcrowded housing and also unsafe housing
2. - Location of housing can depend on the type of social environment the young person is bought up in, either encouraging or discouraging risk-taking behaviour such as illicit drug use.

impact on health status:
1. Increase risk of mental health conditions contributing to YLD/YLL and burden of disease
2. Risk-taking behaviour, if encouraged by those in the neighbourhood, increases likelihood of accident and injuries and burden of disease
2. living in a place with plenty of physical acrivity oppurtunities (bike paths etc), deaceses risk of obesity and increases life expectancy therefore improving health status