Describe the personal and community factors that affect health?

Why is it not recommended to take the same medicines for all kinds of diseases?

1. Personal factors:

Malnutrition

Genetic disorder

Hormonal imbalance

Malfunction of immune system

Malfunctioning of body parts

Community factors:

Pollution

Poverty, illiteracy and ignorant

Exposure to tobacco, alcohol etc

Accidents

Infection causing microorganisms

Exposure to excess cold (frostbite)

Exposure to excess heat (heat stroke)

2. Different medicines contain different ingredients and the act in various ways. Some cure disease by killing the pathogens, where as some kill the cells (in cancer) to cure. Some medicines replace the nutrients missing in the body, whereas some are reducing the level of chemical secreted by the body.

As medicines show such elaborate variety, it is not possible to treat all kinds of diseases by using a single medicine.