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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

The measurement of health status inequality within a population requires using appropriate

indicators and empirical epidemiological evidence that focuses on their effective reduction.

Social factors such as education, employment, income level, and housing are directly proportional

to health indexes, in other words, ensuring that opportunities, orientations, skills, talents, and
individual resources sustain and promote health, well-being, and quality of life.

Moreover, the feeling of control over one’s own life influences the state of health on a physical

and mental level (Nunes et al. 2017).

In short, health is influenced by several factors: genetic, biological, behavioral, environmental,

social, economic, and health services.

In turn, these are determined by both individual and societal actions (Nunes and Rego 2014).

However, the legal system of each nation-state can, and should, restrain the behavior of cite Zen’s
either through punitive measures or through their pedagogical and therefore, preventive role.

Only a concerted intervention in which all agents involved par tic pate proactively may, in the

future, lead to even better global health standards (Kaplan et al. 2009).

Understanding the social determinants of health is essential for the transversal improvement of
the health of any society and even more so, the global population.

If there is no doubt that social factors create and shape the patterns of health and disease, then

according to this paradigm, they do so predictably.

Moreover, we can possibly say that this association has remained stable over time and regard less
of the most prevalent type of disease, subsisted in cultures as diverse as the European, North

American, or Eastern countries.

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