KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Naturopathy, Improved Sanitation, Cardiovascular Disease
24 Nov 2018
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Predisposing factors: intellectual and emotional factors that tend to make individuals more (or less) likely to adopt healthful (or risky) behaviors: Enabling factors: are those internal and external conditions related to the issue that help people adopt and maintain healthy (or unhealthy) behaviors and lifestyles: Availability of resources and accessibility of services. Reinforcing factors: the ppl and community attitudes that support/ or make adopting healthy behaviors or healthy environment conditions. Attitudes of influential ppl: friends, family, politicians etc. Up to 1900 s most deaths were due to infectious diseases. 1900 to present - improved sanitation, antibiotics, vaccines, longer life expectancy, higher chances of death by chronic illness. In 1991 the gap b/w sexes was 6. 3 years (females longer) In 2005 gap b/w sexes was 4. 7 years (females longer) What is killing canadians: cancer 30. 2 , heart disease 19. 7% Leading cause of death for 1-24 yrs: accidents, suicide, cancer. Older group leading causes of death are chronic illnesses.
