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Causes of Ill Health

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The states of dysfunction discussed in Chap. 2 that lead to disease development do not always happen by random chance. In fact, very often these dysfunctional states have behavioral and environmental causes. In examining these causes, it is worth asking to what degree stressors, disturbances to determinants of health, and intrinsic/genomic factors produce the states of dysfunction? In this chapter, there is a range of examples of these types of causal factors. Since the range of environmental and behavioral factors that can injure or stress the body are numerous, this chapter will use examples of different types of causal factors.

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