How can where you live influence your health and wellbeing In this assignment I will explain how a person's health and wellbeing can be both negatively and positively impacted on depending on where they live UK society is distinguished by health inequalities they are the unfair and avoidable differences in people's health across social groups and different population groups due to social biological and geographical factors which usually result in people who are worse of financially encountering poorer health and shorter lifespans According to Labonte's Model of health and wellbeing The Open University 2014 p 53 we are shown how health can be broken down into three main factors physical mental and social and each area overlaps to make complete health There are many examples of how the neighbourhood you live in can affect your health and wellbeing