##  [Social Ecological Model](/social-ecological-model) 

  ##  [Social Ecological Model](https://health.quantumdictionary.io/social-ecological-model-0) 

  

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**Health & Life Sciences Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A multilevel conceptual framework used in public health that explains health outcomes as the product of interacting influences operating at nested levels—typically individual (knowledge, skills), interpersonal (family, peers), community/organizational (institutions, local norms), and societal/policy (laws, economic systems)—and that directs attention to how factors at one level enable or constrain