Unit One Health

Factors that effect heath

This should take about 15 minutes

Step 1

The aim of this box exercise is to identify factors that affect your health (Adapted from Tones and Tilford 2001 p19).

You are at the centre of the diagram:

In the inner box, you would write in factors that influence your health and that are to do with yourself as an individual. (Micro level factors)

In the second box, you would write in factors that influence your health and that are to do with your immediate social and physical environment. (Meso level factors)

In the outer box, you would write in factors that influence your health and that are to do with your wider social, physical or political environment. (Macro level factors)

Complete on paper by writing lists for each box.

Step 2

Do the above factors influence your health positively or negatively?

Make short lists:

Factors that influence my health positively:

Factors that influence my health negatively:

Factors that I consider to be the most important: