Modern Lifestyle Diseases: Awareness and Prevention
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Equivalent to FETAC: Level 5 | Equivalent to QCF (UK): Level 3
Learn about the factors that affect your health and increase the risk of disease
Around the world, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases are affecting the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of people. These diseases are no longer confined to the developed world as millions of people in developing countries are adopting a westernized lifestyle and are being affected by these diseases also. This free online course introduces factors that affect human health and looks in detail at diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases. This course is ideal for professionals working in a health-related profession, for learners who want to learn more about diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases and how they affect human health, and for individuals who wish to understand how to protect themselves against diseases that may one day threaten their health.
Modules in Modern Lifestyle Diseases: Awareness and Prevention
This course will help you to gain a good knowledge of all the factors that affect human health. You will know the causes and symptoms of diabetes, the different types of the diesease and the factors that increase the risk of getting diabetes.You will know the importance of a balanced diet and understand how to treat obesity. This course will help you identify the risk factors and treatments for cardiovascular diseases.
Dr Izharul Hasan - India
2013-01-22 05:01:19
Course Module: Module 1: Factors that Affect Human Health
Course Topic: Individual Lifestyle Factors
Comment: The factors such as malfunctioning of the body parts, hormonal imbalances, malfunctioning of immune system and genetic disorders, which exist within the human body, are called Intrinsic Factors. The disease caused by intrinsic factors is called organic diseases or metabolic diseases. Some examples of diseases caused by extrinsic factors are: Heart attack, Kidney failure, Cataract, Diabetes etc.
Dr Izharul Hasan - India
2013-01-22 05:01:36
Course Module: Module 1: Factors that Affect Human Health
Course Topic: Factors that Affect Health
Comment: The social groups to which people belong are the family, the kinship and caste, religion, village, town or city and the state. Pertaining to health, people in the upper racial hierarchy enjoy better physical facilities than those in the lower rungs of society.
Dr Izharul Hasan - India
2013-01-22 05:01:01
Course Module: Module 1: Factors that Affect Human Health
Course Topic: Factors that Affect Health
Comment: There are several factors which directly or indirectly affect the health. Among these social, cultural, and environmental factors play dominant role for determining the individual and group health.
Dr Izharul Hasan - India
2013-01-22 05:01:20
Course Module: Module 2: Diabetes
Course Topic: Classification of Diabetes
Comment: In a little over a decade from now, chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer and AIDS would account for over 65 per cent of deaths in India compared to 53 per cent in 2005. By 2020, chronic diseases are expected to claim 7.63 million lives in India, compared to 3.78 million in 1990.
Dr Izharul Hasan - India
2013-01-22 05:01:00
Course Module: Module 2: Diabetes
Course Topic: Insulin and Glucagon
Comment: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that more than 270 million people are susceptible of falling victim to diseases linked to unhealthy lifestyles. Most of these people are thought to come from China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia. China and India are the emerging economic superpowers.