This document discusses several determinants of health: 1. Heredity - Genetic factors passed down from parents can influence health outcomes like cancer risk, diabetes risk, and smoking risks. 2. Environment - The social and cultural surroundings a person lives in can impact their habits and health behaviors. Factors like parental smoking, parenting styles, and peer pressure can influence health. 3. Culture - Cultural norms around acceptable foods, eating customs, and social hierarchies impact health behaviors and choices within that culture. The document provides brief summaries of research on how each determinant influences health outcomes.

1. Determinants of Health
Bondi, 4/5

2. Heredity
(Kelly Gillespie, Kelly Flemm, Sara Domkowski, Daniel Drabes)
• The transmission of genetic characters from parents to
offspring, according to dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heredity?s=t
• Rating of control: 0 /10
• Selling point: This influences people the most because
heredity is about ancestry and it travels through people’s
families, so it effects their whole lives.

3. Research of Effects of Heredity
• Smoking - A smoker who inherits these genetic variations
from both parents has an 80 percent greater chance of lung
cancer than a smoker without the variants.
• Diabetes - Your risk decreases to 1 in 13 if your parent was
diagnosed after the age of 50.
• Cancer - Inherited gene mutations are passed from parent to
child through the egg or sperm. These mutations are in every
cell in the body.

4. Sarah Safe
Environment Adomas Sinkevicius
Darryl O'Leary
Andrew Richter
Definition: Environment is the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a
person or a population. Also, it’s the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or
influences; surroundings; milieu.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/environment)
Amount of control: 5/10 Some control.
You usually have the option to leave a bad situation. You can’t control situations
where your family has bad habits, but you can leave when they do it or influence
them to stop. Your environment is more influential to you than anything else
because if you are surrounded by smokers your whole life you might not think it’s a
big deal and are more likely to smoke.

5. Research on Effects of Environment
Effect of Smoking Parents on Kids:
Investigation of children in Britain and Brazil finds that moms who
smoke may be trigger behavioral problems in their children.
http://healthland.time.com/2010/06/28/how-parental-smoking-
affects-kids/#ixzz25hwLHAo8
Parenting styles influence a child's risk for obesity:
Parents' use of appropriate disciplining styles was associated with
healthier eating, while parental use of control styles was associated
with unhealthy eating.
http://her.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/6/862.short
Peer Pressure affects Academic Performance:
A recent Heritage Foundation study found that negative peer pressure
is a factor in lower test scores.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=9745

6. Culture
By Tommy, Claudia, Steve, and Azariah
Culture is…the quality in a person or society that arises
from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in
arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
Culture rate: 4
Culture is more influential than the others because
you’re surrounded by your culture everyday by eating
foods within that culture that can affect your health.

7. Culture
In each culture there are both acceptable and unacceptable foods, though
this is not determined by whether or not something is edible. For
example, alligators exist in many parts of the world, but they are
unacceptable as food by many persons. Likewise, horses, turtles, and dogs are
eaten (and even considered a delicacy) in some cultures, though they are
unacceptable food sources in other cultures. There are also rules concerning
with whom it is appropriate to eat. For example, doctors in a health facility
may eat in areas separate from patients or clients.

8. Technology
By: Logan, Vanessa, Amer
and Deangelo
Definition: the branch of knowledge that deals with the
creation and use of technical means and their
interrelation with life, society, and the
environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial
arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
Rating and selling point: I would rate the
determination and control over technology
8 out of 10 this is why I think the rate of
determination and control over technology
an 8 because we think that some people
get addicted to technology and because we
use it daily.

9. Research on Effects of your topic
• One way technology can effect our health is that it takes time away from
our life.
• Another way it effects us is that it gives us a lot of access to helpful
information.
• Though it may not always feel like it, the Internet is actually making us
smarter, at least according to a new survey of scientists, business
leaders, and technology developers.
• The last way is that it makes kids not be more active and social.
• A fact about the game systems is that 92 percent of kids play games in
america.

10. Attitude- how someone views a
situation or event
• Level of Control: 8 out of 10
• Attitude is more important than any other
determinate because you can control it.
Meghan Ida, Brandon Isler, Lucas
Carlson

11. Examples of research in attitude
• If you get in a fight, you can still have a positive
attitude
(http://www.ehow.com/facts_7645171_information-
positive-attitude.html)
• If your family dies, you don’t have to be depressed
(http://skywardjourney.wordpress.com/orphan-
statistics/)
• If your friends ask you to do cocaine, you can decline
(http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.darnell/peer_pressur
e_and_drug_use)

12. Behavior
Evan Luna, Adan Lopez, Charles Allen
Health behavior is ….an action taken by a person to maintain, attain, or
regain good health and to prevent illness. Health behavior reflects a
person's health beliefs. Some common health behaviors are exercising
regularly, eating a balanced diet, and obtaining necessary inoculations.
Cited: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/health+behavior

13. Research Effect on Behavior
1) Risk taking leads to injury
2)Bad decisions like drugs lead to an unhealthy
lifestyle
3)Not making healthy food choices can lead to
diabetes or obesity

14. Omar Cervantes
Medina Bilalic
Nia Anderson Determinant

15. Research on Effects of Media