the effect of lifestyle on some non-communicable diseases

• Factors that can affect health

  1) Diet. Bad diet= can affect physical + mental health

  2) Stress. Too much= health issues

  3) Life situation. Access to medicine/ able to buy healthy food/ access to condoms to prevent STDs etc.
• Human cost of non-communicable diseases

  - Death

  - Lower quality of life

  - Affects loved ones
• Financial cost of non-communicable diseases

  - Huge cost to research + treat diseases

  - Families have to move or adapt home

  - Income reduced if job is given up

  - Reduction in number of workers affects economy
• Risk factors


  Increase CHANCE of getting the disease
• Examples of risk factors

  - Lifestyle (eg. exercise)

  - Presence of substances in environment (eg. air pollution)

  - Presence of substances in body (eg. asbestos fibres)
• Risk factors that can directly cause disease

  - Smoking

  - Alcohol

  - Obesity

  - Radiation
• Coorelation


  A measure of the relationship between two variables

  Some risk factors won't directly cause a disease, but are related to another risk factor which is directly linked

  Eg lack of exercise and obesity