title: Health promotion or pharmacological treatment for chronic diseases?
abstract: Over the last years medicine has progressed very rapidly. Communicable diseases, which were the leading causes of mortalities, are not anymore, especially in developed countries. Currently, non-communicable diseases are more prevalent, and most of them are related to changes in our daily habits and degenerative processes. Most of these diseases are chronic, need continuous care and treatment with limited improvement and high costs. The General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 65/238 recognized the primary role and responsibility of Governments in responding to the challenge of non-communicable diseases and the essential need for the efforts and engagement of all sectors of society to generate an effective response. Special emphasis has been concentrated on pharmacological treatments for most of chronic non-communicable diseases with the challenge to discover new drugs for treating, in most cases, chronic irreversible degenerative diseases associated with aging. Little care was given to non-pharmacological lines of treatment.
authors.affiliation: South Cordoba Health District, Spain. fm2faahm@uco.es
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Allam
authors.affiliation: South Cordoba Health District, Spain.
authors.forename: Ortiz
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Arjona
mesh_terms: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019440:Anti-Obesity Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001993:Bronchodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008019:Life Style; D009765:Obesity / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D019440:Anti-Obesity Agents; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D001993:Bronchodilator Agents; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents