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Question

Dorji : lived in Bhutan, just outside the capital city of Thimpu. He felt tired, weak, and dizzy for some time but had no fever. After another week of feeling this way, Dorji went to visit his local health clinic. Each clinic in Bhutan had two medical practitioners, one who practiced the indigenous system of medicine and the other who practiced 'Western biomedical medicine." In light of Dorji's symptoms, he visited the indigenous practitioner inside the clinic. The "doctor" gave him some herbs that he thought would help his condition. However, he also thought Dorji had an underlying infection and took him across the hall to the "other doctor" who prescribed antibiotics for him.

What are the factors that determine the health of individuals in the above vignette? To what do these determinants relate? Discuss the underlying causes of those determinants/factors? How would you expect these determinants/factors and underlying causes to vary between low- and high-income countries and between poor and better-off people? Then having identified the determinants of health, briefly articulate what could be done in the short and long run to address the underlying issues.