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