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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

Further, it persists even when risk factors such as alcohol, tobacco, obesity, or a sedentary lifestyle

are excluded.

According to Wilkinson and Marmot (1998), the social determinants of health that complement

certain biological and genetic factors include the following:

1 Economic and social gradients,

2 Ability to control the circumstances of life,

3 Start of healthy life and early development,

4 Existence of social and family support,

5 Existence of stable employment,

6 Absence of addictions,

7 Consumption of nutrient-rich food and other healthy products, and

8 Use of healthy means of transportation.

There is a significant association between an individual’s socioeconomic status and the health of

their spouse and children, mortality in the retirement age, and accidental mortality.

Parents with higher levels of education provide their children with greater academic success,
which indirectly influences health.

Experimental evidence supports the association between social class and the rate of mortality,

morbidity, and disability (GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators 2018).

This relationship finds its foundation in the effect of socioeconomic status on health (social
causation); even though there is an inverse relationship, the effect of health on social status (social

selection) is also important.

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