74% of deaths worldwide are due to non-communicable diseases
Non-communicable diseases such as those related to the heart, cancer and diabetes are responsible for 74% of deaths worldwide, while taking decisive action to address the factors that promote infection could save tens of millions, according to the World Health Organization.
A recent report issued by the World Health Organization today indicated that non-communicable diseases, which are preventable in many cases, and which people develop as a result of adopting an unhealthy lifestyle or living in unsuitable conditions, cause 41 million deaths annually, including 17 million under the age of The seventieth.
The World Health Organization confirmed that heart diseases, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases are currently the main causes of death in the world, followed by infectious diseases.
"Every two seconds a person under the age of 70 dies as a result of a non-communicable disease," said Benti Mikkelsen, head of the department concerned with this file at the World Health Organization, in a statement to reporters in Geneva.
She pointed out that the amounts allocated to combat these diseases are very limited.
Although the numbers mentioned in the report are dangerous, the World Health Organization confirmed that the problem at hand can be resolved to a large extent, because the main factors causing non-communicable diseases are known and identified, as well as the most appropriate method of treatment.
Smoking, unhealthy diet, drinking alcohol, lack of physical activity and air pollution are the main causes of the spread of non-communicable diseases.
Smoking alone kills more than eight million people annually.
"More than one million people among these deaths are non-smokers," said Doug Beecher, chief adviser to the head of the World Health Organization for non-communicable diseases.
Eight million more deaths are attributed to the unhealthy diets they adopted, either eating too little or too much food, or even eating poor quality food.
However, the World Health Organization confirms the existence of scientifically proven means to reduce the factors that promote non-communicable diseases, stressing that all countries and if these methods are adopted, 39 million lives may be saved during the next seven years.
The report notes that allocating relatively small amounts of money to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases can make a big difference.
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