Level 2 Healthcare Participant Exam 2 Practice

Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources. These determinants encompass the social and physical environments and the infrastructure that affect health, such as housing quality, neighborhood safety, social support, and access to clean water. Biology and genetics, on the other hand, are inherent biological traits that people are born with; they influence health risk but are not shaped by social conditions in the way determinants are defined. So biology and genetics are not social determinants, while the social environment, physical environment, and access to clean water are.