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Provide a 12 pages analysis while answering the following question: Inequalities in Health. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The definitions of ‘health’ fall into three major groups:

•&nbsp.Cultural: health is a standard of physical and mental well being appropriate to a particular society.

•&nbsp.Normative: health as an fixed level, or an ideal physical and mental state

•&nbsp.Functional: health is a state of being necessary to perform certain physical and mental activities (Townsend, Davidson &amp. Whitehead 1990)

However, none of the existing definitions or groups fully reflects the essence of this highly complex and multilateral concept. One common definition of health is the following: “health is positive concept that emphasises social and personal resources, as well as physical capabilities. It involves the capacity of individuals – and their perceptions of their ability – to function and to cope with their social and physical environment, as well as with specific illnesses and with life in general” (WHO, 1984). The broadness of this definition implies that the factors influencing health are multiple and complex. Other popular definitions and models of health highlight the same feature of this concept.

Thus, Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991) in one the most widely used models of health identify the following levels of individual health:

•&nbsp.The first-layer factors including age, gender and genetic inheritance.

•&nbsp.The second-layer factors including behavioural patterns (physical activity, smoking, dieting).

•&nbsp.The third-layer factors including social position, economic resources and the material environment.

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