People’s health is a result of internal and external factors. Describe two factors and explain their effects on people’s health.

People’s health is a affected by a complex combination of internal factors, which include biological or psychological elements, and external factors, which relate to the direct external environment in which an individual lives. This essay will concentrate primarily on psychological aspects as an example of internal factors and on government intervention in changing school meals as an external factor having a direct effect on people’s health.

Psychological factors are considered internal as they vary from one individual to another and are often one’s belief, emotions or habitual behaviour. These beliefs, can ultimately impact on one’s physical well being by changing behaviours that affect one’s health, such as eating, drinking...

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