Life-style and Health

Način života utemeljen je na odnosu između općih uvjeta života i obrasca ponašanja pojedinca. Ozljede i kronične bolesti povezane s nainom života sve su učestalije. Tako glavna prijetnja ljudskom zdravlju postaju nezarazne kronične bolesti: kardiovaskularne i cerebrovaskularne bolesti, plućne bolesti, bolesti jetre, rak, dijabetes, osteoporoza. U svakoj zemlji, ovisno o stupnju razvoja, nezarazne kronične bolesti imaju ubrzani porast ili su već na visokoj razini. Ako se narodi brže razvijaju, trebaju obrazovne programe za smanjenje nepovoljnih čimbenika (tzv. faktora rizika) povezanih s nastankom nezaraznih kroničnih bolesti, kao što su pušenje, prekomjerno pijenje alkohola, nedostatak tjelesne aktivnosti, masna/slana prehrana itd. Bolesti sa zajedničkim čimbenikom rizika zahtijevaju zajedniËke aktivnosti njihove prevencije.The life-style is a general way of living based on the interplay between living conditions and individual patterns of behavior. Injury and chronic diseases associated with life-style tends to become more common. This leads to the emergence of non-communicable chronic diseases as major threats to public health: cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, liver diseases, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis. In every country, depending on the stage of development, non-communicable chronic diseases are rapidly increasing or are already established at high levels. If populations develop more rapidly, they need educational programmes for noncommunicable chronic disease risk-factor reduction such as smoking, alcohol use, lack of physical activity, fat/salt diet etc. Diseases with common risk factors require common preventive strategies