THE IMPACT OF MASS MEDIA ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE IN CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS
THE IMPACT OF MASS MEDIA ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE IN CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS

Summary/Abstract: Socioeconomic dissimilarities have an overwhelming impact, with profound reverberations across societies, on health risk factors and consequences, especially regarding cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases and their outcomes are preventable, if the risk factors are taken into account. The assembly of these factors can be grouped into unmodifiable risk factors, modifiable risk factors that are behavioural, metabolic factors and socioeconomical factors. The socioeconomical factors, known as socioeconomical determinants of health, are defined as the conditions where people are living, settings that are modelled by the dispersal of wealth, power and resources at all levels. The barriers to a better health can be alleviated by optimising publics’ knowledge through media communication about the effect of the determinants on health.

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