What are risk factors that affect health?
Your personal health risk factors include your age, sex, family health history, lifestyle, and more. Some risks factors can't be changed, such as your genes or ethnicity. Others are within your control, like your diet, physical activity, and whether you wear a seatbelt.
3.2, health risk factors and their main parameters in built environments are further identified and classified into six groups: biological, chemical, physical, psychosocial, personal, and others.
Risk factor examples
Negative attitudes, values or beliefs. Low self-esteem. Drug, alcohol or solvent abuse. Poverty.
- Behavioural.
- Physiological.
- Demographic.
- Environmental.
- Genetic.
- strategic risk - eg a competitor coming on to the market.
- compliance and regulatory risk - eg introduction of new rules or legislation.
- financial risk - eg interest rate rise on your business loan or a non-paying customer.
- operational risk - eg the breakdown or theft of key equipment.
A health risk is something that increases your chance of developing a disease. For example, getting too much sun on your skin may put you at higher risk for skin cancer. That doesn't mean that you will definitely get skin cancer. You can take steps to lower your risk by protecting your skin from sun exposure.
In our discipline of occupational health and safety, the six primary hazard categories are: Physical hazards. Chemical hazards. Biological hazards.
FAK-ter) Something that increases the chance of developing a disease. Some examples of risk factors for cancer are age, a family history of certain cancers, use of tobacco products, being exposed to radiation or certain chemicals, infection with certain viruses or bacteria, and certain genetic changes.
- Ten Factors that. Affect. Your Health Status.
- Heredity.
- Quality of the Environment.
- Random Events.
- Health Care.
- Behaviors You Choose.
- Quality of your Relationships.
- Decisions You Make.
- Physical risks. Physical risks include physical discomfort, pain, injury, illness or disease brought about by the methods and procedures of the research. ...
- Psychological risks. ...
- Social/Economic risks. ...
- Loss of Confidentiality. ...
- Legal risks.
What are common types of risks?
Risk Types: The different types of risks are categorized in several different ways. Risks are classified into some categories, including market risk, credit risk, operational risk, strategic risk, liquidity risk, and event risk.
- Asbestos. Asbestos is number 1 on our list because it is responsible for the most deaths each year. ...
- Mental Health. We knew mental health would be in our top 5 but expected it to be lower down the list. ...
- Manual Handling. ...
- Silica Dust. ...
- Hazardous Substances.
- Identify hazards.
- Assess the risks.
- Control the risks.
- Record your findings.
- Review the controls.
- Age. The older you are, the higher your risk of stroke.
- Sex. Your risk of heart disease and stroke increases after menopause.
- Family and Medical History. ...
- Indigenous Heritage. ...
- African and South Asian Heritage. ...
- Personal circ*mstances. ...
- Related information.
The air risk staff generally follows a basic four step risk assessment process, including hazard identification, exposure assessment, dose-response assessment, and risk characterization, as described below.
Acceptable (4)
This risk rating would be assigned to a loan considered satisfactory, but which is of only average or slightly below average credit risk due to financial weakness or uncertainty.
The most common health issues are physical inactivity and food, obesity, tobacco, substance abuse, AIDS, mental health, falling and injury, environmental quality, immunization, and healthcare access. These all-personal health issues require attention to improve the quality of life and keep you free from diseases.
- High Blood Pressure: ...
- High Cholesterol: ...
- Gender: ...
- Being Overweight: ...
- Age: ...
- Smoking: ...
- Having Diabetes: ...
- Sedentary Lifestyle:
- Operational: This category includes risks related to operational management, including failed or incomplete internal processes, inadequate staffing levels, and poor management of adverse events.
- Clinical/patient safety: These risks relate to the delivery of care to customers.
There are five main aspects of personal health: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual.
What are the 6 health factors?
- Medical. It's important to establish and maintain a relationship with a primary care provider who will partner with you to help you understand your specific medical risks and assess your general state of health. ...
- Fitness. ...
- Sleep. ...
- Nutrition. ...
- Mindfulness. ...
- Social Wellness.
There are three ways you can evaluate a risk factor. Consider both short- and long-term consequences. Decide whether you can control the risk factor. Analyze the possible benefits and risks of a decision.
- Income and social status.
- Social support networks.
- Education and literacy.
- Employment/working conditions.
- Social environments.
- Physical environments.
- Personal health practices and coping skills.
- Healthy child development.
- Access to nutritious foods.
- Access to clean water and working utilities (electricity, sanitation, heating, and cooling).
- Early childhood social and physical environments, including childcare.
- Ethnicity and culture.
- Family and other social support.
- Gender.
- Language and other communication capabilities.
The 2 broad types of risk are systematic and unsystematic.
Four personal behaviors that can affect chronic diseases are: lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, tobacco use, and excessive alcohol use.
The 4 C's - Competence, Control, Co-operation and Communication are a useful aid to getting organised.
- Smoking or substance abuse.
- Poor health due to lack of exercise.
- Overeating fast food or processed foods.
Types of Risk
Broadly speaking, there are two main categories of risk: systematic and unsystematic.
- anti-social behaviour;
- unprotected sex;
- deliberate self-harm;
- severe or excessive dieting;
- compulsive overeating;
- dangerous driving.
