What are socio cultural factors affecting health?

Answer 1

Sociocultural factors are the larger scale forces within cultures and societies that affect the thoughts feelings and behaviors of individuals.

These can include:

• socioeconomic position,
• social roles and circumstance,
• and cultural factors.

These sociocultural patterns are complex and specific to sex, age, and sometimes racial groups, as well as type of society, with patterns of relationships observed in developed countries sometimes reversed in developing countries.

Answer 2

Culture refers to the beliefs and ways of live of communities. The way a community lives impacts on their health for example Irish travellers have lower life expectancy rates than their settled counterparts, this is due to the impact of their culture on their health. They way they live, how they deal with illness/disease/mental health, the lack of access to clean running water, discrimination experienced in the health care system/government/community all have negative impacts on their health.

Answer 3

In a nut shell, we all have to challenge our beliefs about what we eat, how it's cooked and why we eat some foods and others we won't touch with a long handle spoon. One way to do that is to find someone you trust and follow there diet plan. Until then, since we all learned about the 4 basic food groups in elementary school, that would be a great place to start. That means to eat lean meats, veggies, fruit and dairy with each meal. But we also know to add plenty of water to our diets.

Answer 4

There are so many socio cultural factors affecting health. Some of the most popular ones include taking alcohol and smoking.

Answer 5

Culture has a great impact on health. Cultures decide what foods are popular for example and these food affect the health of an individual.

Answer 6

• Stress
• drinking/smoking/drugs

Answer 7

sociocultural factors includes wife inheritance, male dorminance, traditional birth practices, supersitions and the likes

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