Chronic diseases such as strokes, cancer, and respiratory and heart conditions are China's biggest health problem, the health minister said on Friday, urging citizens to change lifestyle habits...What no acupuncture and herbs?
"Chronic diseases make up the first four and have to do with lifestyle and are a huge financial burden. They make up 80 percent of mortality and health expenditure," he said.
China's total mortality figure was 8.49 million in 2005, of which 22.2 percent was due to strokes. Cancer made up 22.1 percent, followed by respiratory diseases at 15.8 percent and cardiac diseases at 14.7 percent.
To reverse the threat from such chronic lifestyle diseases, China is putting in place primary prevention programmes to promote health education and mass screening for diseases like diabetes and hypertension, Chen said.
Even the Chinese need to get fit.
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