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Question - Nursing Discussion - What are the main influencing factors on health? Define the social determinants of health and discuss how they impact access and equity.

They are different factors that influences health which may be generally categorized into about five that includes the financial factors which are considered very important and critical resource for the help functionality to happen. Another factor influencing health is the inadequate healthcare professionals who are considered who are considered to be very important for an organization to be able to achieve their daily is objectives relating to health services such as the nurse's lab technicians and many more has been a very paramount issue over the different measures which are being put in place to help on dealing with the issue (Goldberg, 2017). Another factor is that genetics which is more common in the essays the commonly diseases which are hereditary, and also on the genetic patterns of is germs and bacteria. How do I choose the environmental on the physical influences which are there in the healthcare sector buy it translates into having a conducive working environment which healthcare professionals will be able to deliver quality health care related services (Merrill, 2019).

In terms of the physical influences this relates into such as the laboratories, wards, beds and many more which are considered to be very important in the delivery of health care services. Politics is another factor that is affecting health translate into the policies things which are being offered to the healthcare sector body of health care services either positively or negatively.

The social determinants of health are considered to be there people are born leaves work such as the social economic status, physical environment, social support networks, education and many more. the social determinants of health is noted to be having major impacts on access and equality of getting the healthcare services whereby factors such as lack of education, stigma, poverty, racism and many more are noted to limit victims on having quality healthcare services access (Badran & Al-Khateeb, 2017).

References -

Badran, S. A., & Al-Khateeb, S. (2017). Factors influencing the uptake of orthodontic treatment. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 73(4), 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12034

Goldberg, D. S. (2017). Public health ethics and the social determinants of health. Springer.

Merrill, R. M. (2019). Introduction to epidemiology. Jones & Bartlett Learning.