Sec. 1001. Definitions
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In this title: The term determinants of health — means the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status; and includes social determinants of health (which are sometimes referred to as social and economic determinants of health or socioeconomic determinants of health ), environmental determinants of health, and personal determinants of health. The term environmental determinants of health means the broad physical, psychological, social, and aesthetic environment.
The term personal determinants of health means an individual’s behavior, biology, and genetics. The term social determinants of health means a subset of determinants of the health of individuals and environments (such as communities, neighborhoods, and societies) that describe an individual's or group of people's social identity, describe the social and economic resources to which such individual or group has access, and describe the conditions in which an individual or group of people works, lives, and plays.