The PHN completed a community assessment and found that the obesity rate in one of the neighborhoods was higher than the other neighborhoods in the county. She suspects that this is partially due to limited access to full-service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe venues for exercise. Assuming her conclusion is correct, what category or categories of determinants of health would these issues within the community fall into?

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These issues fall into upstream determinants of health, which include social and environmental factors like access to grocery stores and safe exercise venues.

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