“Where you live can affect your health and well-being. Using examples from block 3, discuss this statement in relation to both the negative and positive impact that neighbourhoods can have for people who live there.”

In this essay I will discuss the negative and the positive impact on health living in a neighbourhood can have. When discussing the impact that neighbourhoods can have on health and wellbeing it would be a good start to understand what do the words health and neighbourhoods mean. There are many different definitions of what health is so in this essay I am going to use the one given in the beginning of unit 9 which is from the World Health Organisation which states health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO, 1946, quoted in K101, Unit 9, p. 12). Also in Labontes model of health and wellbeing at the beginning of Unit 9 we are shown how health can be further broken down into three main areas of physical, mental and social and each area overlaps to create complete health. With the three main parts of h…(short extract)