Question

Causes of non-communicable diseases like: obesity

diabetes

and cardio-vascular

and why its the major health problems in most of countries

Answer 1

The four major non communicable diseases are-cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases,diabetes and cancers.

They shared four main causes or risk factors-

1.Tobacco use

2.Harmful Alcohol use

3.Physical inactivity

4.Poor diets

These factors have been identified by WHO and numerous other health bodies and experts.Alongside factors such as Blood pressure and high Cholesterol which can be modified through these four factors.

Non communicable diseases are a major health problem because

Of 56.4 million global deaths in 2015, 39.5 million or 70%,were due to non communicable diseases.The burden of these diseases rising disproportionately among lower income countries and populations.In 2015 over three quarter of NCD deaths,30.7 million occured in low and middle income countries with about 48% death in these countries occuring before the age of 70

The health,social and economic burdens of NCDs are set to increase in coming years and decades and this group of largely preventable diseases threatens to undermine social and economic development in low and middle income countries.Thus this is a major health problem to look upon.