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Healthy living and choice (title tbc)
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3.1 Changing health-related behaviours

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Figure 8 The social determinants of health (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1991, cited in Dahlgren and Whitehead, 2021)

You will explore some of the organisations and individuals that have been given the responsibility of tackling the rising levels of obesity in our society. In Figure 8, the diagram created by Göran Dahlgren and Margaret Whitehead, the layer labelled ‘General socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions’ has been highlighted to show that this will be the focus of this section.