our lives are constantly under the influence of risks and circumstances that may endanger our welfare state. Among these factors are genetic conditions inherited ideological and psychosocial environment where individuals are submersible, daily care for the person who has health and lifestyles and habits of all these factors; the most important are the lifestyles or behavior.
Heredity / genetics It refers to the transfer of biological characteristics from parent to child. This factor may cause a genetic predisposition toward a disease. Commonly it is not controllable by humans. This means that sooner or later, the individual will suffer the condition that was predisposed by genes from their parents. The diseases can be inherited include mental disturbances (eg, schizophrenia), infectious diseases, coronary heart disease (coronary artery disease of the heart), diabetes mellitus or saccharin (inadequate production or utilization of insulin, manifested by hyperglycemia), hemophilia (absence of blood coagulation, as evidenced by bleeding), or sickle cell anemia (abnormal red blood cells / patients), among others. Today, scientific research is directed towards the elimination of genetic diseases through genetic engineering, genetic counseling and health education. This factor comprises 16% of what determines the level of health of an individual.
Environment The environmental factor that represents all external element to the human body, which surrounds and interacts with the individual, on which the person has some degree of control. The environment may be physical, ecological, biological and socio-cultural. The physical environment includes the ecological conditions of weather and climate stations, housing, land / land, sanitation, water, electricity, food SUPPLIES, drugs, radiation, clean or polluted air, recreational facilities, cars, hospitals, solar and school buildings, among others. On the other hand, biological factors account for all the things that have life, such as fauna (animals) and flora (plants), other people, germs, disease vectors, reservoirs, disease agents, among others. Finally, sociological and cultural factors are those created solely by humans. The social includes the interactions between people. This includes overcrowding, housing quality, working conditions, physical and social security, affection, communication, health care, work, progress, wealth distribution, among others. The cultural factor represents those cultural patterns in a given time and place. Is the pattern of life that continues from generation to generation, ie, the habits, mindset, create and feel. Also, be described as the set of capabilities that the human being acquires as a member of the society we live in, ie, their knowledge, beliefs, customs, social status, law, morality, arts, among others. 21% of the individual's ability to control the disease results from their environment.
Health care (medical and hospital)
It refers to the way in which the individual care of your health and stay healthy. It is based on preventive medicine and proper care of the sick. 10% of this factor that affects our health can be controlled by the person.
Behavior or lifestyle The way the individual interacts with the environment describes what a behavior is. This factor results from the interaction of physical, ecological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual. This interaction can be positive or negative, depending mainly on the personal decisions that affect the well-being. Only the individual himself has control over his MINORS. Selection is a matter of individual responsibility. Lifestyles are patterns of behavior, values and way of life that characterizes an individual, group or different social classes. More specifically, lifestyle factors account for the daily practices, habits and activities that affect the health of the individual. These factors may affect the quality of lifestyle are as follows: individual behaviors, relationships and decisions made by the person
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