Question

article on disease prevention

Answer 1

not to go in dirty places and when some people used to smoke so not to go near to them because that smoke will harm our lungs

Answer 2

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

One of the major goals in the field of health promotion and disease prevention is to identify risk factors for disease so that information about these risk factors can then be shared with people. Our hope is that people will use this information to change their behavior to lower their disease risk. There are three major problems with this model that require our serious attention.

The first problem is that after decades of epidemiologic research, it has proven very difficult to identify disease risk factors. Consider, for example, the case of coronary heart disease. For over 50 years, extensive research has been done all over the world to identify risk factors for this disease. As a result, we now have knowledge about many of them including serum cholesterol, high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes and so on. In spite of this success, however, most of the coronary heart disease that occurs is not explained by these risk factors. It is estimated that all of the risk factors we know about, combined, explain less than half of the CHD that occurs.1 This does not, of course, diminish the importance of the risk factors we have identified, but it does suggest that things are more complicated than we had thought. The problem we have with CHD is very much the same for many other diseases as well.