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Health and other parts of life
Many parts of life can affect our health.
Social factors of life affect our health.
Social factors include
- culture and identity, like being a First Nations person
- how much money we have
- having a safe place to live
Other social factors include
- what we know about healthy living
- the freedom to make choices about health
- unfair health services or being treated unfairly in daily life.
Relationships and support from family, carers and friends is an important social factor that affects our health.
These are sometimes called 'social determinants of health.
Health people who know this can give better care to meet your needs.
Everyone has social factors that affect their health.
For people with intellectual disability these influences include:
- culture and identity, like being a person
First Nations people are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. They are the first peoples of this land.
- how much money a person has
- what a person knows about healthy living
- the freedom to make choices about health
- support from family, carers and friends
- feeling lonely
- unfair health services
- having a safe place to live
- , or being treated unfairly in daily life.
Discrimination means treating someone unfairly because of who they are or a personal feature they may have. For example, a person may experience discrimination because of their age, gender or disability
These are sometimes called 'social determinants of health'.
Health professionals who understand these factors can give care that meets each person’s needs.