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Faculty of Nursing
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5 Fewer harmful practices (e.g., smoking and alcoholism);

6 Healthier overall lifestyles (e.g., physical exercise);

7 Housing in areas with high sanitization standards (e.g., drinking water and waste management);

8 High-quality primary and secondary education and consequent high level of general education
and health literacy;

9 Higher levels of digital inclusion (World Health Organization 2019b).

Socioeconomic status, representing money, knowledge, prestige, and power, decreases the risk
of morbidity and mortality.

From the socioeconomic status per spectate, the better-off adopt preventive and curative

strategies to avoid disease risks, thereby mitigating the associated mortality.

In this way, they can gradually improve their health and well-being.

When discoveries emerge in the biomedical domain, such as measures to prevent cancer or

cardiovascular disease, those who are socioeconomically better-off are more likely to adopt these

discoveries primary idly because they are more connected to digital society (European Union
Agency for Fundamental Rights 2018).

This is a reality in any society. In contrast, the worse-off tend to score lower in health promotion,

even more when there are intersectional circumstances such as ethnicity or gender (Nunes 2020).

In more developed countries, the main causes of mortality have changed radically over the last

two centuries.

Cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases have given way to new

epidemiological realities, namely the overwhelming growth of mortality due to cancer and

cardiovascular disease.

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