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IMPACT OF LIFESTYLE ON HEALTH - Coggle Diagram
IMPACT OF LIFESTYLE ON HEALTH
What is Lifestyle?
Referred to the characteristics of inhabitants of a region in special time and place.
A way used by people, groups and nations and is formed in specific geographical, economic, political, cultural and religious text.
It includes day to day behaviors and functions of individuals in job, activities, fun and diet.
In recent decades, life style as an important factor
of health is more interested by researchers.
Millions of people follow an unhealthy lifestyle.
According to WHO, 60% of related factors to individual health and quality of life are correlated to lifestyle
Hence, they encounter illness,
disability and even death
Problems that can be caused by an unhealthy lifestyle
joint and skeletal problems, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, overweight, violence and so on
The relationship of lifestyle and health should be
highly considered
Lifestyle has a significant influence on
physical and mental health of human being
There
are different forms of such influences
Consanguinity in some ethnicity is a dominant form of life style that it leads to the genetic disorders.
Reformation of this unhealthy life style is a preventing factor for decreasing the rate of genetic diseases
In some countries, the overuse of drugs is a
major unhealthy life style.
Iran is one of the 20
countries using the most medications and they prefer medication to other intervention.
in15-40% of cases they use medications about without prescription
While self-medications such as antibiotics have a negative effect on the immune system, if the individual would be affected by infection, antibiotics will not be effective in treatment
Overall,10 percent of those who are self-medicated will experience severe complications such as drug resistance. Sometimes drug allergy is so severe that it can cause death
variables of lifestyle that influence on
health can be categorized in some items :-
1.Diet and Body Mass Index (BMI)
2.Exercise
3.Sleep
4.Substance abuse
5.Medication abuse
Application of modern technologies
7.Study
Wide changes have occurred in life of all people
Emerging new technologies within
IT such as the internet and virtual communication networks
Lead our world to a major challenge that threatens the physical and mental health of individuals.
The challenge is the overuse and misuse
of the technology.
The lives of citizens face with new challenges
The presentations of unhealthy life style
Malnutrition, unhealthy diet, smoking, alcohol consuming, drug abuse, stress and so on
They are used as dominant form of lifestyle