Social determinants of health
Social factors are 
equally important for the health of urban slums dwellers. The WHO’s Committee on the Social Determinants of Health demonstrates the increasing, and deserved, attention that social determinants of health are receiving.
Along that vein, these images, depicting a south Indian harvest festival, demonstrate how social norms can give rise to risky health behavior. The pictures show that female members of Kaula Bandar have been pierced – with unsterile needles – to allow for the wearing of large metal rods. This practice could give rise to, among other disease, blood-borne illness.
Other social factors influencing health include occupation, and in Kaula Bandar many people work within the community’s small-scale industries. These businesses are highly-unregulated and as such are often operated from miniscule, highly dense, poorly ventilated structures. Such conditions have the potential to encourage accidents, respiratory distress, or the spread of communicable disease.
equally important for the health of urban slums dwellers. The WHO’s Committee on the Social Determinants of Health demonstrates the increasing, and deserved, attention that social determinants of health are receiving.Along that vein, these images, depicting a south Indian harvest festival, demonstrate how social norms can give rise to risky health behavior. The pictures show that female members of Kaula Bandar have been pierced – with unsterile needles – to allow for the wearing of large metal rods. This practice could give rise to, among other disease, blood-borne illness.
Other social factors influencing health include occupation, and in Kaula Bandar many people work within the community’s small-scale industries. These businesses are highly-unregulated and as such are often operated from miniscule, highly dense, poorly ventilated structures. Such conditions have the potential to encourage accidents, respiratory distress, or the spread of communicable disease.
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