{"id":33896,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/chronic-diseases-and-conditionssuch-as-heart-disease-stroke-cancer-type-2-diabetes-obesity-and-arthritisare-among-the-most-common-costly-and-preventable-of-all-health-problems-3"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:22:06","slug":"chronic-diseases-and-conditionssuch-as-heart-disease-stroke-cancer-type-2-diabetes-obesity-and-arthritisare-among-the-most-common-costly-and-preventable-of-all-health-problems-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/chronic-diseases-and-conditionssuch-as-heart-disease-stroke-cancer-type-2-diabetes-obesity-and-arthritisare-among-the-most-common-costly-and-preventable-of-all-health-problems-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic diseases and conditions?such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and arthritis?are among the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p> Chronic diseases and conditions?such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and arthritis?are among the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2012, about half of all adults?117 million people?had one or more chronic health conditions. One of four adults had two or more chronic health conditions.1<br \/> Seven of the TOP 10 causes of death in 2010 were chronic diseases. Two of these chronic diseases?heart disease and cancer?together accounted for nearly 48% of all deaths.2<br \/> Obesity is a serious health concern. During 2009?2010, more than one-third of adults, or about 78 million people, were obese (defined as body mass index [BMI] =30 kg\/m2). Nearly one of five youths aged 2?19 years was obese (BMI =95th percentile).3<br \/> Arthritis is the most common cause of disability.4 Of the 53 million adults with a doctor diagnosis of arthritis, more than 22 million say they have trouble with their usual activities because of arthritis.5<br \/> Source: http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/chronicdisease\/overview\/index.htm<\/p>\n<p>in 200-250 words Based on your readings and research, identify a public health initiative that addresses non-communicable (chronic) disease. What contributing factors does it address? Assess its effectiveness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic diseases and conditions?such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and arthritis?are among the most common, costly, and preventable of all health problems. As of 2012, about half of all adults?117 million people?had one or more chronic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/chronic-diseases-and-conditionssuch-as-heart-disease-stroke-cancer-type-2-diabetes-obesity-and-arthritisare-among-the-most-common-costly-and-preventable-of-all-health-problems-3\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}