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  We believe that basic preventive health care services should be an integral part of an equitable, comprehensive health care plan, accessible to all.

Lifestyle diseases often begins in childhood, but it may be decades before clinical disease shows up. We don't fully understand all the causes, but many population studies have identified major risk factors and strategies to reduce the risk. These are the risk factors we can modify, treat or control:

  • tobacco smoke
  • high blood cholesterol / triglycerides
  • high blood pressure
  • physical inactivity
  • stress
  • obesity and overweight
  • diabetes mellitus

In the past three decades great strides have been made in preventing and treating many diseases as a result of positive behavior and lifestyle changes. As a result, death rates from cardiovascular disease have declined.

Obesity and overweight is another lifestyle disease which has a growing adult and childhood population. Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings. Since, the cause of obesity and overweight is an energy imbalance between calories consumed on one hand, and calories expended on the other hand a positive behavior and lifestyle change can help curb this disease. WHO projects that by 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese.

Childhood obesity is associated with a higher chance of premature death and disability in adulthood. According to WHO at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight globally in 2005 and that number is rising every day.

Diabetes – which has rapidly become a global epidemic is another example of a Lifestyle disease. WHO predicts that diabetes deaths will increase by more than 50% worldwide in the next 10 years.

Many Countries like ours are now facing a "double burden" of disease:

  • While we continue to deal with the problems of infectious disease and under-nutrition, at the same time we are experiencing a rapid upsurge in chronic disease risk factors such as obesity and overweight, particularly in urban settings.
  • It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same community and even within the same household.
  • This double burden is caused by inadequate pre-natal, infant and young child nutrition followed by exposure to high-fat, energy-dense, micronutrient-poor foods and lack of physical activity.

As per American Heart Association (AHA) "In 2001 an estimated 516,000 coronary artery bypass procedures were performed on 305,000 patients. If all heart attack-prone people were treated surgically, the cost would be prohibitive. Technological treatments for heart disease such as balloon angioplasty, thrombolytic therapy (clot-busting drugs), antiarrhythmic drugs and pacemakers aren't cures. More importantly, such procedures can't slow the buildup of fatty deposits in arteries (atherosclerosis), which causes most heart disease. And because of supply problems and other issues, heart transplants aren't a realistic option for everyone with severe heart disease."

That's why more effort must be focused on prevention

  
     
     
 

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