Introduction Contextualizing risk factor is trying to understand how individuals get exposed to individually based risk factors. This is done by examining what exposes people at risk of risks for effectively intervening and improving national health. Mostly medical researchers base more on risk factors that close causes of diseases and ignoring the social factors that are more of like distant causes of a particular disease. They should however come up with a more interpretive form to help understand why individuals get exposed to risk factors and determine the social conditions under which these risks are connected to the disease. This paper analyses why contextualization of individual based risk factor is important and why it should be used
