Lifestyle diseases

They are non-comunicable diseases
1. Cancer
2. Chronic respiratory diseases
3. Diabetes
4. Cardiovascular diseases
These diseases have increased as a result of
1. Population aging
2. Changes in lifestyle
  1. Eating junk food
  2. Don't doing sports
  3. Smoking
  4. Drinking alcoholic drinks
3. Globalization
4. Urbanization
Regulations
1. Reformulating processed foods to informating the nutrition content of the product
  1. High in sugar
  2. High in saturated fats
  3. High in sodium
  4. High in trans fat
2. Regulating the sale of healthy food in schools
3. Increasing taxes on tabaco, alcohol and sugar
4. Facilitating access to quit smoking programs bannig tabaco use
5. Limiting the advertising of cigarattes, alcohol and junk food
6. Creating opportunities for physical activities
  1. Parks
  2. bicycle paths
7. Promoting the use of public transportations
Prevention
1. Governments should ensure access to health services for its population
  1. Access to medicines
  2. Treatment
    1. provided without discrimination
    2. without undue financial hardship
    3. provided with information to manage their own heath
  3. Detection of disease
  4. Diagnosis
2. Adopting a healthy lifestyle
Elaborated by: Miranda Portilla

Resource summary

	Created by Miranda Portilla Ruiz over 3 years ago