Improving cardiovascular disease and diabetes outcomes through lifestyles: Trends and policies

Lifestyles play an important part in predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes risk, although prevention services have to cope with fewer resources in some countries. Lifestyles help explain variations in CVD and diabetes across OECD countries. looks at the health promotion and public health contribution to maintaining healthy lifestyles in OECD countries. It examines recent trends in obesity, tobacco and alcohol consumption, and physical exercise. This chapter outlines policies that health systems have introduced recently to combat unhealthy lifestyles such as tobacco consumption and high salt intake and to promote physical activities in adults and children in order to reduce overweight and obesity. It also benchmarks OECD countries in relation to their CVD and diabetes lifestyle rankings.