The document outlines four key social causes of disease: socio-economic status, physiological risk factors, psychological risk factors, and social problems related to illness. It explains how factors such as poverty, mental health, and social exclusion contribute to the onset of diseases and negatively impact individuals' well-being. Additionally, it highlights specific social implications for sick individuals, including issues like illiteracy, employment challenges, and communication barriers that impede their ability to interact with society.

1. Social causes of Disease

2. • There are totally four important social causes
that leads to disease
There are
1. Socio economical status
2. Physiological risk factors
3. Behavior risk factors
4. Psychological risk factors

4. SOCIO ECONOMICAL STATUS
• Social status (relating to society) of a person
indirectly responsible for disease
• Economical status (relating to money) of a
person indirectly cause the disease
• Eg. Poverty, very less income, poor housing,
inadequate healthy food, low education, low
occupational status, dangerous work, stressful
work, polluted environment, discrimination etc.

7. PHYSIOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS
• Physiology= functioning of body
• Improper functioning of the body leads to disease either directly
or indirectly
• It is an illness that interferes with the way that the functions of
the body are carried out. As a result of the incorrect functioning,
certain effects will be seen in the body.
• This could be done to several reasons. For example, there may be
too little or too much of a substance in the body, deterioration of
certain cell types or blockages of pathways.
• Eg. Weak heart leads to hypertension, weak immune system
causes microbial diseases, hypercholesterolemia, genetic factors
etc.

12. PSYCHOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS
• Our behavior and attitudes are critical in keeping us healthy,
helping us regain health following illness, and helping us achieve
well being.
• Psychological factors are major contributors to medical illness and
disease
• If a person is frequently scolding/ blaming by society, friend or
public then his mental behavior changes and leads to his various
mental disorder and finally disease.
• Eg. Isolation, lack of social support, low of self esteem, self blame,
hopelessness etc.
• Psychological factors can also affect many physiological conditions

15. SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF SICK

21. Social problems of sick
• sick is defined as inability of person to mingle
with society due to physical or mental ill.
• There are different types of social problems
which causes individual to sick.
• For example- illiteracy, employment problem,
brain drain, social relationship, loss of
independence, communication problem,
dining problem etc.

22. • Illiteracy- if a person not educated, then he feel
guilty to mingle with society, leads to stress and
sick
Reasons- inability to learn, lack of funds for
education, expensive higher education, lack of
good teachers in his primary education etc.
• Brain drain- in India when intelligent, talented
and well deserving candidates do not get
acceptable jobs, they will settle in abroad
because of jobs, India is deprived of good
talent. This concept is called as Brain drain.

23. • Employment problem- In India, job
opportunities are not increasing as per the
ratio of increase population. Lack of job makes
the person to mingle freely with others and to
mingle with society. This make him/her to sick.
• Social relationship- Smaller persons, hearing
impaired persons, mentally retard persons
generally not interact with society because of
threat or insulting by society. This makes those
persons mentally ill and finally sick.

24. • Loss of independence- situation of disabled
persons, paralyzed persons is worse and they loss
freedom because they totally depend on other
for regular activities like eating, bathing, dressing
which leads to quality life and cause sick.
• Communication problems- people with
numbness, stuttering, with lack of free speech,
stage fear have difficulty in expressing
themselves in society. They cannot be mingle
with friends, other people and society feels them
are guilty and cause sick.

25. • Dinning problem- who have chronic illness
needs special diet or controlled diet.
• Eg. Low salt food for hypertensive persons,
low sugar foods for diabetes persons