evaluation of socio-economic factors affecting the demand for health

Introduction: individual health has been proved to be under the influence of various factors such as the use of health care services, diet,smoking and alcohol, physical environment, and health-related behaviors. therefore, the main determinants of health are factors suchas income, education, and access to health services, and systematic changes in these factors lead to socio-economic injustice in health.the present study was carried out through library and internet search. medline and google scholar databases were also utilized.combining contents and results: according to the present study, an increase in health input expenses would inevitably lead toaggravation of the health situation and decrease in income would result in the worst health status of the poor. moreover, people withhigher education use less health inputs; however, they enjoy higher status than those with lower educational levels.conclusion: health demand approach provides only a part of the information needed for policy-makers and decision-makers inhealth system. theoretical and empirical analyses of the health claim could indicate that policy actions are likely to be more effectivein overcoming barriers to health but are not capable of determining which one is likely to be more cost-effective . the demand forinformation about the health only provides the necessary tools about the benefits of special policy making decisions. so the tool shouldbe combined with other techniques including cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses.