Globalisation & Lifestyle
Coping with emerging public health issues
The world is experiencing a demographic and epidemiological transition in the form of increasing incidences of chronic and non-communicable diseases. The change has been regarded as a major challenge for the healthcare system particularly in developing countries like Bangladesh.
A WHO report estimated that 44 percent of all deaths in 2002 were accounted for chronic disease in Bangladesh. The increasing trend of chronic diseases has been regarded as a resultant of changing lifestyles related to food intake, less physical activity and growing tobacco use. All these processes are inexorably linked with the process of globalisation.
As chronic diseases have emerged as major health hazards for the people of Bangladesh, massive information, education and communication campaign should be driven forward to make mass people aware of the possible grave outcomes of continuing the lifestyles that has become a regularity.
Thus, people are to be made knowledgeable about the lifestyle that could act as measures for prevention of chronic diseases. 80 percent of chronic diseases can be avoided through changing food habit, increasing physical activity and ceasing tobacco use.
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