Question

• Discuss in terms of the determinants of health, why are a higher number Australian females in their 20s and 30s contracting COVID19, while more deaths are occurring among older men?

Answer 1

Answer: The determinants of health includes such as genetic, social, environmental as well as physical influences. In Australia the females age between 20 -30s are contracting COVID 19 because this age group of women are most likely to have parties, working in the office, college going students. They are in the large number which are influenced by the environmental factors. Hence they are in large number who are affected by the COVID 19. The death occurs mainly in the aged or older men because as people aged, their immune system gets weakned slowly. Men are more prone to this infectious disease because they smoke, drink alcohol more in comparison to the females. Hence they are at high risk of developing chronic diseases. And COVID19 is an infectious disease which reduces the ability the immune system to prevent the body from the virus attack.