The lifestyle-related diseases reduction strategy : Pathway analysis of health perception-health behavior-health status

Abstract

Mortality due to lifestyle-related diseases has increased during the last century and the lifestyle-related diseases increase in frequency because of changes in people’s behaviors as countries become more industrialized. The lifestyle-related diseases such as cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, and heart diseases rapidly increased around the age of 40. And the prevention of such diseases required considerations based on the one’s lifestyle and risk factors of the lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. The third chapter showed the economic and health burden due to the lifestyle-related diseases. The forth chapter investigated the impact of risk preference on disease management and health behavior. The findings of this experiment survey described that more risk averse individuals showed significantly lower treatment compliance with high health risks. The study of risk preference is important because the risk attitude plays a significant role in the lifestyle-related diseases management behaviors and health status.