International Journal of Nursing Education
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 3

Lifestyle a Social Production of Disease

Assistant Professor and Director, BScN Programme, Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan

*Corresponding author: Salma Amin Rattani, Assistant Professor and Director BScN Programme Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan. Contact No.: +92 21 34865403, Email: rattani@ualberta.ca

Abstract

Individuals’ actions are blamed for being at highest risk for ill health, even when their choices have been constrained by public policies and corporate practices. Whereas, there is a relationship between lifestyle and health inequities which is be briefly explored in this paper. It also covers the emergence of lifestyle as a concept and concludes that instead of just targeting individuals to change lifestyle, strategies should also be employed to improve their social determinants of health.

Keywords

Lifestyle, Inequities, Access to Health, Non-Communicable Diseases