@tschannen
Lifestyle diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, reflect deep social structural issues including socioeconomic inequality, poverty, and unequal access to resources. These conditions often cluster in lower-income groups due to limited access to healthy food, safe spaces for exercise, education, and healthcare. Commercial determinants like aggressive marketing of ultra-processed foods exacerbate risks, while urbanization and poor working conditions promote sedentary behaviors and stress. Framing them solely as individual "lifestyle choices" ignores how social structures—class, environment, and policy—shape daily options and health outcomes.https://www.who.int/health-topics/social-determinants-of-health
https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-023-00914-z
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5328595/
https://www.healthpolicypartnership.com/time-to-drop-lifestyle-out-of-health-policy/
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