Health

Time trends of comparative self-rated health in adults aged 25-34 in the Northern Sweden MONICA study, 1990-2014

Self-rated health (SRH) accounts comprehensively for many health domains. The aim of this paper was to investigate time trends and associations between age-comparative self-rated health and some known determinants in a general population aged 24–34 years. Population-based cross-sectional surveys were performed in 1990, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 in Northern Sweden.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
20/11/2017
Mattias Waller Lidström, Patrik Wennberg, Robert Lundqvist & et al
PLoS ONE
1-12
Tags:
Health, Women, Statistics, Lifestyles, Health Effects, Sweden, Smoking, Mental Health, Europe
Health

Lifestyle diseases biggest killer even in most backward states: Report

NEW DELHI: Lifestyle diseases like heart and chronic respiratory diseases now kill more people than communicable ones like tubercolosis or diarrhoea in every state in India, including the most back

Publication Date: 
15/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Lifestyles, Tuberculosis (TB), Non Communicable Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Diarrhoea, Health Effects, Health
Health

Incidence of diabetes higher among women in AP: expert

Stressful modern lifestyles taking toll on their health, says expert

Publication Date: 
15/11/2017
Hindu (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Diabetes, Lifestyles, Women, Health Effects, Health
Health

Alarming prevalence of obesity in Kashmir can turn children diabetic: Study

Doctors said in addition to the healthcare system, various government bodies, schools and parents too had a responsibility.

Publication Date: 
13/11/2017
Greater Kashmir
Tags:
Obesity, Child Health, Children, Right To Information (RTI), Junk Food, Lifestyles, Health Effects, Health
Climate Change

Yoga session a hit among visitors at UN climate change conference

BONN, Germany: Yoga session at India pavilion here on sidelines of the UN climate change conference (COP23) may be a subject of debate about its relevance, but this age-old traditional Indian pract

Publication Date: 
09/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, COP 23 (Bonn), Lifestyles, Climate Impacts
Health

Montevideo roadmap 2018-2030 on NCDs as a sustainable development priority

Heads of State and Government and ministers from around the world today committed to new and bold action to reduce suffering and death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), primarily heart and lung diseases, cancers and diabetes, the world’s leading killers.

Publication Date: 
18/10/2017
World Health Organization
Tags:
Non Communicable Diseases, WHO, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Lifestyles, Health Effects, Private Sector, Public Sector, Health Care, Health Policy, Education, Nutrition
Health

Maintain healthy weight to curb risk of cancer

This World's Obesity day, do not forget to put on your running shoes every day or engage in other physical activities, and introduce some elements of fun in your life without indulging in processed

Publication Date: 
12/10/2017
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Obesity, Cancer, Health Effects, Tobacco, Lifestyles, India, Health
Health

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
10/10/2017
Lancet
1-16
Tags:
Obesity, Health Effects, Child Health, South Asia, Europe, Africa, United States Of America (US), Global, Non Communicable Diseases, Advertising, Lifestyles, Fast Foods, India, Malnutrition, Poverty, Education, Health Care
Health

Chronic disease concordance within Indian households: A cross-sectional study

The household is a potentially important but understudied unit of analysis and intervention in chronic disease research. We sought to estimate the association between living with someone with a chronic condition and one’s own chronic condition status.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
29/09/2017
Shivani A. Patel, Preet K. Dhillon, Dimple Kondal & et al
PLoS Medicine
1-16
Tags:
Diseases, India, Diabetes, Mental Health, Heart Diseases, Obesity, Lifestyles, Non Communicable Diseases, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Junagadh (D), Dhar (D), Tribals, Poverty, Pondicherry
Health

Junk food & tobacco banned on engineering campuses

HYDERABAD: College students will no more be able to tuck into their favourite snacks like samosa, kachori, pizza, noodles on campus as the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has inst

Publication Date: 
19/09/2017
Times Of India (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Telangana, Hyderabad, Junk Food, Tobacco, Lifestyles, Health Care, Health

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