The Rise of Preventive Healthcare: How Lifestyle Changes Reduce Chronic Diseases

Abstract

Preventive health care has become popular to tackle the worldwide scourge of chronic disease. Examples of some chronic diseases are but not limited to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory diseases. Preventive health care is not about treatment of some disease diagnosed or point of care. The preventive care starts within the environments of a chronic illness and chronic disease. The areas of focus that fall under preventive health care would include: healthy diet, regular physical activity, stress relief, and taking into consideration the necessity to appreciate the significance of monitoring signs and symptoms, lifestyle changes, etc. In this paper, the issue of the prevailing fame of preventive health care in the context of countering the epidemic rate of the prevalence of chronic diseases will be studied. The other aspect that this paper will focus on is that the lifestyle change is beneficial to proactive health results over time. This paper will highlight the economic, social and psychological merits of prevention of chronic disease and lapses in awareness, cultural traditions and medical policies in preventing chronic disease.. The findings in this paper indicate that putting preventive health into practice prevents the dumping of sick people into healthcare systems globally and puts power back into the hands of consumers to understand the significance of their health care and make improvements on their own.