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Social Perceptions on Health SO343A Student No: 0012286 You are responsible for your own health. Discuss. This essay will be examining if a person can solely be responsible for his or her own health. It will consider if there are factors in play that can make this difficult to do. It will investigate, what constitutes "being healthy" and will endeavour to explain why someone can lead a healthy lifestyle, whilst others cannot. It will consider regional variations, in addition to those from different socio-economic groups, in order to try and establish if being responsible for one's own health is solely down to that person. In addition to this, it will examine what information exists that enables and encourages society to take responsibility for their own health. The World Health Organisation defines health as: "A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". However most people would...

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