Speech on lifestyle diseases due to the pandemic.
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Speech on lifestyle diseases due to pandemic...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which originated in the Wuhan province of China, was declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (W.H.O) on March 11, 2020 [1]. Since then it has spread beyond borders and affected the lifestyle behaviour of people.
This pandemic not only adversely affected the physical health of individuals, but also brought forth significant changes in their lifestyle. India has a widely recognized health care delivery system but due to the lack of organized infrastructure, there is a growing sense of crisis, as the majority (66.53%) of its population reside in rural areas which are plagued with wide discrepancies related to the delivery of health care needs
[2]. Needless to say, this pandemic has magnified this dearth by diverting its focus on specific medical conditions, neglecting other issues related to lifestyle behaviour.
Due to this crisis (COVID-19) paralleled with the growing number of cases, there was an immediate spike in the need for several preventive and protective tools namely N-95 masks, personal protective equipment (PPE kits), ventilators, thermo-regulators, oximeters, etc., and as a result of which, the majority of the existing health care facilities/centres were either turned into dedicated COVID-19 centres or existing health resources were shifted to COVID-19 management. Health and wellbeing are the priorities of any nation, therefore India went through perhaps the strictest lockdown in 5 phases following partial-unlock down along with recommendations like restrictions on freedom of movement, social and physical distancing, self-isolation, and quarantine measures, etc., to curb down the disease spread.
Whilst the entire nation is gradually progressing through the process of gradual ‘unlocking’, along with the prevailing state of confinement side by side, there is a need of the hour to assess the impact of COVID-19 on changes in lifestyle behaviour among individuals. Arguably all these prevailing restrictions might have had bearing on the eating or dietary habits, sleep status, physical activity, and mental stress, culminating in worsening of both the physical and mental health among the rank and file...