Effect on lifestyle on Non-communicable diseases

• • Risk factors are linked to an increased rate of disease
  • They can be: lifestyle, substances in body or environment ( e.g asbestos)
• Lifestyle factors can have local, national and global impacts:

  • Non-communicable diseases affected by diet are more common in developed countries because people have high income to buy these factors
  • Nationally, people from deprived areas more likely to smoke, poor diet, drink - incidence of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes are higher in those areas
  • Individaul choices affect local incidence of disease
• Some risk factors are dirrctly able to caue disease:

  • Smoking - cardiovascular disease, lung disease, lung cancer - damages walls of arteries and cells in lining of lungs
  • Obesity -T2 diabetes - making body less sensitive or resistant to insulin, hard to control concentration of glucose in blood
  • Alcohol - liver disease, damage brain function - damage nerve cells in brain, brain loses volume
  • Smoking and alcohol when pregnant - health issues for unborn baby
  • Carcinogens and ionising radiation - cancer
• Diseases can be caused by interaction of factors:

  • Lack exercise and high fat diet - -> high blood pressure, high cholesterol - - > cardiovascular disease
• Human cost of non-communicable diseases:

  • Millions of people die per year
  • Lower quality of life or shorter lifespan
  • Affects loved ones
• Financial cost of non-communicable diseases:

  • Cost of global health services reasearch and treatment is large
  • Families may have to move or adapt home to help treat family member with disease
  • Death of family memeber with disease can reduce family income
  • Reduction in people able to work can affect country's economy