Cardiovascular Disease: A Troubling Public Health Trend in Developing Countries

Globally, there is a transition from physical, agriculturally based economies toward economies based on more sedentary industrial activities (Bauman et al, 2005). This change has lead to an overall reduction in daily physical activity and an increase in obesity and cardiovascular disease rates as well as other lifestyle changes. Communities with more sedentary based economies need alternative ways to increase their physical activity level, monitor dietary changes, and learn strategies to control rates of cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, there are many roadblocks to a community’s ability to increase opportunities to reduce cardiovascular disease. This paper will include a detailed discussion of cardiovascular disease, its implications on society, cardiovascular disease in developing versus developed countries including a discussion of possible factors related to increasing rates of cardiovascular disease, and recommendations to reverse this troubling trend.Master of Public Healt