Social Terms

Dif­fer­ent coun­tries or con­ti­nents of the world are not equal­ly devel­oped this is because of the dif­fer­ence is in resources dif­fer­ence in cul­ture and dif­fer­ences in polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic sys­tems of the coun­try. The health of a per­son is pri­mar­i­ly depen­dent of the lev­el of socio eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. Exam­ples are per capi­ta income Gross National […]

Behav­ior is asso­ci­at­ed with health and dis­ease, health relat­ed behav­ior of an indi­vid­ual is very impor­tant to ensure good health for him or her. For exam­ple a per­son main­tain­ing per­son­al hygiene is health relat­ed behav­ior and it effects his or her health.  Behav­ior of one indi­vid­ual leaves impact on anoth­er per­son­’s health for exam­ple impact

Gen­der refers to the social­ly as well as cul­tur­al­ly defined roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties of men and women. The gen­der roles are learnt through social­iza­tion in dif­fer­ent social insti­tu­tions. Gen­der inequal­i­ty is the dis­crim­i­na­tion based on the per­sons sex in terms of oppor­tu­ni­ties in the allo­ca­tion of resources ben­e­fits or access to the ser­vices. Gen­der equality

Cul­ture is a sys­tem of thoughts and behav­iors saved by a group of peo­ple. Our cul­tur­al back­ground have tremen­dous impact on our life spe­cial­ly on our health. Cul­ture varies from one local group to anoth­er. It and there’s and evolves as well as is val­ued for itself. Anthro­pol­o­gist have focused on both artis­tic as well

Com­mis­sion on social deter­mi­nants of health was formed by World Health Organ­i­sa­tion in 2003. The com­mis­sion released its final report in 2008 and this doc­u­ment serves as a guid­ing prin­ci­ple to pol­i­cy mak­ers in devel­op­ing coun­tries like India to shaped health poli­cies and pro­grams that acknowl­edg­ing the role of social deter­mi­nants of health.  It acknowledged

Social deter­mi­nants of health can be defined as the con­di­tions in the social, phys­i­cal and eco­nom­ic envi­ron­ment in which peo­ple are born, live, work and this includes access to Health­care. Day con­sists of poli­cies pro­grams and Insti­tu­tions and oth­er aspects of the social struc­ture includ­ing the gov­ern­ment and pri­vate sec­tors as well as com­mu­ni­ty factors

Health is a broad con­cept that includes a broad range of mean­ing that ranges from nar­row tech­ni­cal def­i­n­i­tions to all embrac­ing philo­soph­i­cal def­i­n­i­tion. Health is often described as devoid of ill­ness and as a state of well being. These are cre­at­ed and main­tained by a set of fac­tors which are known as deter­mi­nants of health.

Besides the Vedas, the Brah­mins, the Aranyakas and the Upnishads are also a part of the Vedic lit­er­a­ture. The Brah­mins con­sists of the Vedic hymns in sim­ple prose. The Aranyakas were meant for those who gave up word­ly life and lived in the forests.  The Upan­ishads deal with the Indi­an Phi­los­o­phy that is the theory

Sources of His­to­ry Unwrit­ten sources like tools weapons coins jew­ellery cave paint­ing and draw­ing as dug out from below the earth are the evi­dence for the Pre­his­toric peri­od.  Archae­o­log­i­cal Sources There are many archae­o­log­i­cal sources few of them are: Tools and Weapons- the ear­ly man made crude tools from hard stones. Lat­er Flint anoth­er vari­ety of

At the time of inde­pen­dence India’s health sta­tus was one of the worst in the world. the life expectan­cy at birth was esti­mat­ed at 36.7 years in 1951. the infant mor­tal­i­ty rate was high at 146 per 1000 in 1951. Poor socio-eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties cou­pled with dead­ly dis­ease gift mor­tal­i­ty rates very high. How­ev­er the