Aware of the importance of this area of knowledge, we want to comply, albeit briefly, to complete the sanitary tripod; Physical, mental and social health.
The social are the people who surround us the individual, who influence their lives, who design their future. The social being is the human being, therefore, the physical and mental health of the individuals, will be influenced by the factors that come from the society.
Balance is health; the disorder, the disorders, the pathology is the disease. The social factors condition health and disease.
The WHO defines health as the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.
The socio-economic policies that leave the population too poor, without access to a balanced diet without drinking water, without drainage, without the most elementary hygiene rules, mean that the health of these people is affected by diseases.
In the same way, the same effect is caused by the production processes that allow the contamination of places of work, housing, or recreation, with hazardous substances. Individual habits, both in foods, beverages, psychotropic substances, as well as tobacco, are the roots of many diseases.
Where dirt and malnutrition reign, infectious diseases and infant mortality predominate. In these cases you can not talk about social health.
Overfeeding, sedentary life and excesses in the use of tobacco and drugs are charged to middle-aged people in the form of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
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