Book chapter
Chapter 2 - The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease
Lifestyle Medicine, pp.15-34
Elsevier Inc, Third Edition
2017
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Abstract
With the uptake of modern lifestyles, chronic diseases and conditions have taken over from infectious diseases as the main causes of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Hence, while advanced populations are living longer, it is questionable as to whether they are living “better.” From an epidemiological perspective, the immediate or proximal determinants of chronic diseases reflect only the tip of a “causal” hierarchy that extends to “distal” determinants that are often lifestyle or environment related. Lifestyle medicine, as a bridge between public health and clinical medicine, needs to reflect not only on the unhealthy behaviors of individuals but also on the environments often driving these behaviors. The word chronic disease is often used synonymously with noncommunicable diseases or lifestyle-related disease.
Details
- Title
- Chapter 2 - The Epidemiology of Chronic Disease
- Creators
- Maximilian de CourtenBarbora de CourtenGarry EggerMichael Sagner
- Publication Details
- Lifestyle Medicine, pp.15-34
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Identifiers
- 991012927086802368
- Copyright
- © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter