How Your Biology Affects Your Health: Crash Course in Public Health #2

Today we will begin our discussion on the determinants of health, that is, all the conditions in which we are born, live and work and which influence our general well-being. Now, these determinants can cover everything from education level to income level to genetic code. So today we're going to focus solely on biological factors like our age, genes, and gender, and take a closer look at their impacts.

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Chapters:
Introduction: Biological determinants 00:00
Behavioral and biomedical approach 01:27
Social approach 02:44
Health determinants 04:11
Biological determinants 05:42
Epigenetics 09:16
Review and credits 11:33

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