A service was held at Notre Dame Cathedral and hundreds of people congregated at the Place de la Republique. France held a two-minute silence at midday on Monday (11am GMT). People gather for a national service for the victims of the terror attack at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris Photo: AP.
Determinants account, in some measure, for the underlying rates of disease in a population, while variations in these rates are explained by risk factors. The social determinants of health include socioeconomic circumstances, social structure and function, and cultural factors.
Separating out the different directions of causality is an important and difficult research challenge. Health outcomes, however defined and measured, are produced by determinants or factors. They often are sorted into the five categories presented on the right in the following model.Health care determinants generally include access, cost, quantity, and quality of health care services.ealth care determinants generally include access, cost, quantity, and quality of health care services.