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.
192 Dimensions of performance First, social and economic determinants of health fall outside the health system and beyond the scope of health policy and health care. Second, such an action might require restrictions on the ways in which people choose to live their lives (Mooney 1983).