Four Socioeconomic Determinants of Health

Many evidences are increasing and giving the health minister more reasons to believe that housing, income, employment and education (abbreviated as a healthy socio-economic determinant) will bring some health and inequality (Public Health Advisory Committee PHAC, 2004). The purpose of this task is to discuss these four determinants and their impact on health from the perspective of the Public Health Advisory Committee. Employment and residence will be discussed in more detail and include government policies, strategies or legislation.

Choosing an explanation means not judging a healthy socio-economic position, but health (or determinant factor of health) judging socio-economic status. These selection mechanisms depend on the occurrence of social mobility, ie the change in the socio-economic status of an individual's life compared to the parent (intergenerational) or early (intergenerational).

The causal effect of socio-economic status on health may be mainly indirect, through various contacts to more specific determinants. The consequences of this causal relationship occur when socioeconomic conditions determine human behavior, living environment, medical use, etc., and these specific determinants lead to higher or lower frequency health problems. Experience shows that the main determinants that play an important role in explaining health inequalities are physical and psychosocial environments as well as behavioral and biological factors 5 , 10-12.

Healthy socioeconomic determinants traverse different levels of intervention and different life stages. Our aim is to closely monitor data on health inequality and healthy socioeconomic determinants, but this field proved to be another big gap in the literature. There are measurable gaps in health inequalities related to various access and experience to health care, health and illness as follows.