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.
Social determinants of health are economic and social conditions that influence the health of people and communities [1]. These conditions are shaped by the amount of money, power, and resources that people have, all of which are influenced by policy choices.Social determinants of health affect factors that are related to health outcomes.eterminants of health are factors that contribute to a person's current state of health. These factors may be biological, socioeconomic, psychosocial, behavioral, or social in nature. Scientists generally recognize five determinants of health of a population [2, 3]: 1  Genes and biology: for example, sex and age.