Year 11: PDHPE - Better Health For Individuals

There are two basic kinds of health determinants that relate to our individual-level characteristics:

1. Biological and genetic determinants
2. Behavioural determinants

Biological and genetic determinants are fixed individual characteristics that we cannot control. These includes things like age, sex, family history of disease, and inherited conditions, like sickle cell disease...

Behavioural determinants are modifiable individual characteristics that we have some control over. These include things like diet, exercise, hand washing, unprotected sex, tobacco use, and alcohol use.

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Articles from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare