What is health?

How would you define health? There are several interconnected and related
dimensions of wellness that are dynamic – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508938

Model of determinants of health. In the middle of the image are biological factors, then individual lifestyle behaviors, then social and community networks, then socio-economic, cultural and environmental factors

What makes your health better or worse? All of the factors that influence
your health for better or worse, including your genetic code, your behaviors, and your environment,
are called the determinants of health – https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health

Social determinants of health – https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/index.htm

To learn more about how social determinants of health can impact our lives,
watch this movie (this is optional). Go to the BMCC Library website – http://lib1.bmcc.cuny.edu/ and click on Databases. Select Video Databases, then select Kanopy Streaming Videos. If you are not on campus, you will have to log in with your BMCC log-on (the same credentials you use to log into computers on campus). When you are in the Kanopy database, search for Unnatural Causes. Your result will say Collection on it. Watch the movie titled In Sickness and in Wealth.

Is the United States a healthy country? Read more here – https://unnaturalcauses.org/assets/uploads/file/AmazingFacts_small.pdf.