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Table 5 Types/groups of NCDs, determinants and drivers

From: Twitter data analysis as contribution to strategic foresight-The case of the EU Research Project “Foresight and Modelling for European Health Policy and Regulations” (FRESHER)

NCDs

Determinants

Drivers

Cardiovascular disease

Alcohol; tobacco; lack of physical activity; gender; drug consumption; nutrition; genetic inheritance; hypertension

Educational background; personalized health; safe environment; nutrition (vegan & vegetarian consumption); green city planning; social innovations (food, nutrition, care; physical activity); subsidize fresh fruit & vegetables; transplantation of organs; wellness movement; active gaming; nutrition (salt, fat, sugar); access to medication; land use/urban form; Mediterranean diet; advertising/commercials; prevention; screening

Cancer

Emissions; noise; industry; bad waste of chemicals and radioactivity; alcohol; aging; sun exposure; meat consumption; tobacco; no vegetables; lack of vitamins; chemicals and toxic agents; genetic inheritance

subsidize fresh fruit & vegetables; gluten epidemic; food labeling, organic farming; industrialization of food production; agriculture; access to vaccination (HBV, HPV); demographic change; monopoly/oligopolies of pharmacy; food

Depression

lack of physical activity; family mental health (genetics and social); unemployment; gender; social inheritance; doing things you like; childhood abuse; stress; no work-life balance; sun exposure

access to sports infrastructure; gender specific care; prevention; wellness movement; taxation of food, alcohol, tobacco; carbo-hydrate intense food; advertising/commercials; monoculture/standardization of food; nutrition (vegan & vegetarian consumption); food labeling; climate smart agriculture; organic farming; industrialization of food production; agriculture; standardization of food & food production; designer food; multinational corporations; fractionalization; financial status; education/new values for life; green city planning; social life/network; new social networks (IT); new media (tv, pv); lack of psychological resilience; company strategies for balanced work-life; educational background; division of labor; family status/single mums; changes family structures

Diabetes

nutrition (salt, fat, sugar)

subsidize fresh fruit & vegetables

Hypertension

environment: softeners

access to medication

Hypoglycemia

lack of physical activity

Mediterranean diet

Liver disease

alcohol; nutrition (salt, fat, sugar); drug consumption; medications

transplantation of organs; prevention/therapy; breeding/engineering human organs; nutrition (vegan & vegetarian consumption)

Metabolic syndrome

tobacco

green city planning

Musculoskeletal/osteoporosis

lack of physical activity; nutrition (salt, fat, sugar); gender (menopause); no work-life balance

land use/urban forms; gender specific care; genetics

Neurodegenerative disease (e.g. dementia)

low brain training; tobacco; lack of physical activity; alcohol; drug consumption; advanced age; low education; chemicals and toxic agents

brain training; mental health; level of education/schooling; active communities; availability of fresh fruit & vegetables; cardio fitness

Obesity

genetic inheritance

personalized health/gene banks

Respiratory disease (COPD, asthma etc.)

Emissions; noise; lack of physical activity; financial values; no work-life balance; tobacco; obesity; genetic inheritance; stress; drug consumption; child health/maternal health

Pollution; green city planning; climate change; social innovations (food, nutrition, care, physical activity); safe environment; monitoring; availability of information air quality

  1. (Terms showing an exact correspondence to hashtags in the dataset are written in italics and marked green. Terms containing parts of hashtags or having a clear relation to some of the hashtags without showing an exact correspondence are written in italics and marked yellow.) Source: Author’s data