NTDT421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 1999 Fifa Women'S World Cup, Scurvy, Rickets
27 Dec 2016
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Focus used to be on infectious diseases because they lacked vaccines and medicine to handle outbreaks. 1800s/1900s infectious diseases were leading cause of death; influenza, pneumonia, diphtheria, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections. People were dying in their 50s, not living very long. We have vaccines and antibiotics, people are living longer. Biggest issues are diseases that are related to diet. Chronic, non communicable diseases linked to diet are leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, cerebrovascular/stroke, type 2 diabetes. **since unhealthy diet patterns are risk factors for chronic diseases; Assessing results of interventions to improve nutritional status are fundamental to our success at reducing chronic disease risk, promoting health and managing health care costs. *if less and less people have these chronic diseases, health care costs will go down and money can be used for other purposes. Identify groups at nutritional risk (public health department, government screenings etc)
