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Top three causes of dealth in adult males.
- coronary heart disease
- intentional self harm
- lung cancer
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Top three causes of dealth in adult females.
- breast cancer
- lung cancer
- coronary heart disease
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Congenital abnormalities
damage to foetus caused by, passing down genes, poor uterus environment, chromosome abnormality
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What does blood pressure measure?
Measures the force of the blood on the walls of the arteries.
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How is blood pressure recorded?
- Systolic: max pressure exerted on the arteries when the heart muscle contracts to pump blood.
- Piastolic: Min pressure in the arteries when the heart muscle relaxes between heart contractions.
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What factors lead to poor blood pressure?
- being unfit
- smokeing
- drinking alcohol
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What 2 serious conditions can result from high blood pressure?
- Stroke
- Coronary heart disease
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Stroke
- Most common form of dealth in Australia.
- Serious stroke can result in paralysis on one side of the body.
- Gender is a risk factor.
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Symptoms of stroke.
- dizziness
- difficulty speaking
- loss of balance
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How much physical exercise is recommended victorian adults do per week?
- 30 min of moderate intensity of physical activity on most (preferably all) days.
- Reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, blood pressure.
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Different types of families.
- Couple: two people living together
- Nuclar: two adults with children
- One parent: one adult with children
- Step: two adults with at least one child from one parent, no natural
- Blended: two adults with step children and natural children
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Differnt types of work.
- Full time: no less than 38 hrs/week
- Part time: no more than 20 hrs/week. Same entitlements as full time.
- Casual: can work as many hours a week as employer stimulates. no rights
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What things can lead to work place stress?
- Over worked
- Workplace bullying
- Sexual harassment
- Deadline pressure
- Job security
- Changes in workplace
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What symptoms can workplace stress cause?
- Fatigue: decrease physical and social
- Depression: decrease emotional and mental
- Heart problems: decrease physical
- Headaches: decrease physical
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5 costs associated with buying a house.
- Insurance
- Mortgage
- Bills
- Furniture
- Reparies
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When is it determined that the cost of housing is high?
Cost is high when at least 1/3 of family income is required to meet rent or mortage repayments.
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Health problems associated with stress with buying a house.
- Insomia: decrease physical, social and intellectual
- Memory lapes: decrease intelectual and social
- Chronic pain: decrease physical, social and mental
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Infancy
- Age: birth-2
- Average growth: birth weight doubles by six months, triples by 12.
- Physical development: sences continue to deveop, although vision is still largely burry.
- Intellectual deveoplment: learns by putting objects in their mouth.
- Emotional deveopment: emotional atachment towards care givers
- Social deveopment: totally dependent on parents.
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Early childhood
- Age: 2-6
- Average growth: height increases 6 cm per year, weight by 2.5 kg per year.
- Physical deveopment: increased coordination.
- Intellectual development: deveoping intrest in the world around them.
- Emotional deveoplment: deveop a sence of empathy
- Social deveopment: deveop social skills such as sharing and taking turns.
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Late childhood
- Age: 6-12
- Average growth: height increases around 5 to 6 cm per year, 3 kg per year
- Physical development: permenate teeth develop
- Intellectual development: can complete instructions with multiple steps.
- Emotional development: start to develop self concept
- Social devlopment: acquire a greater sense of right and wrong.
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Is it a concern if a child doesnt develop by a certain time.
- no it is not, everybody develops at different stages beacuse everybody is different.
- individual variations
- if physical dveopment is slower, they could have troble with social development.
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principles of development
- Development occurs in a predictable and orderly way
- Development is continual
- There are individual variations in the rate and timing of development
- Development folloes predictable patterns - cephalocudal, proximodistal
- Development proceeds from simple to complex
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Development occurs in a predictable and orderly way
learn to walk at 9 to 15 months
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Development is continual
learning to write in early childhood
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There are individual variations in the reate and timing of development
hormones, genetics, family interactions, nutrition, physical activity.
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Development follows predictable patterns
- Cephalocudal: growth and dev from the head down
- Proximodital: growth and dev from core of the body outwards
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Devopment proceeds from simple to complex
learn to craw before walking
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3 recommendations for pregnant women to protect the safety of a foetus and reasons why?
- No alcohol consumption or else baby may be born woth foetal alcohol syndrome.
- No raw seafood, is causes poisioning
- Cutting down on caffenine, caffenine increases the risk of miscarriage
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What are teratogens?
- Environment substances thats can cause abnormal prenatal developmet
- examples: medications, certain foods, drigs and alcohol
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Stages of prenatal development
- Sperm and ova: meeting of sperm and egg
- Germinal: starts at fertalization and ends with implantaion
- Embryonic: stars with implantaion and ends at the eighth week
- Foetal: starts at the 9th week ends at birth.
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What does APGAR stand for?
- Activity: muscle tone
- Pluse: heart rate
- Grimance: responsivness or reflex irritability
- Apperance: skin colouration
- Respiration: rate and effort or breathing
- Administed one and five mintutues after birth
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top 3 mortality in infants
- pernatal conditions
- congenital abnormalities
- SIDS
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top 3 mortality in children
- Heart failure
- all cancer
- Diseases of the nevrvous system
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top 3 morbidity in children
- asthma
- hayfever & allergic rhintis
- underfined allergy
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Biological factors in children
- genetics
- birth weight
- body weight
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Behaviour factors in children
- sun protection
- eating habits
- level of physical activity
- oral hygiene
- maternal nutrition
- parental smoking
- marernal alchohol & drug use
- breast feeding
- vaccination
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Physical environment in children
- smoking iin the home
- housing environment
- water flurodiation
- access to recreational facilities
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Social environment (family) in children
- parental education
- parental employment status & occupation
- Parental income
- family dtress & trauma
- Parental health & disability
- work-life balance
- parenting practices
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Social environment (community) in children
- media
- access to social support
- neighbour hood safety
- access to services
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Biological determinants in adults
genetics
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Behavioural determinants
- Body weight
- Blood pressure
- Blood cholesterol
- Smoking
- Physical activity
- Food intake
- Alcohol use
- Drug use
- Sexual preactices
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Physical envrronment in adults
- houseing & workplace safety
- access to health care
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Social environment in adults
- media
- level of education
- employment status
- income
- living arrangements
- social support
- family & worklife balance
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Foetal alcohol syndrome
- When alcohol is consumed by a pregnant women, it crosses the placenta from the mother's blood to the baby's blood.
- Facial features: small head, thin upper lip, flat cheecks, short nose, low nasal bridge
- Others: ADHD, dev delays, learning difficulties, reduced memory loss capacity, increases rish mental health, drug & alcohol miss use.
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Parenting practices
- Authoritarian: overemphasis on dicipline & little or no opportunity for decision making by the child. intimidating, with expectaion of obedience and respect.
- Authoritative: fair discipline, cater for the self-esteem needs of the child, fair but not unrealistic expectaions, good behaviour is rewarded.
- Permissive: fail to discipline, little or no expectaions of the child, give demand, set no rules or limitaions.
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Perinatal conditions
closely surrounding birth, poor maternal health, nutrition, in adequate care during pregancy
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Down syndrome
- A 3rd 21 chromosomes
- Slight upward stance of the eye, rounded face with a flat profile, smaller stature.
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Cystic fibrosis
- it effects the respiratory, digestive and reproductive systems.
- the mucus glads secrete very thick sticky mucus, this clogs tiny air passages
- persist cough
- poor appetie
- frequent vistis to the toilet
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huntingtons disease
- neurological condition caused by the inheritance of a defective gene.
- dealth of brain cells in a certain area
- mild twitching
- walking difficulties
- mood swings
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spina bifida
- damage to the spinal cord
- walking difficulties
- increased stress on kidneys
- build up or cerebrospinal fluid on the brain
- urinary and faecal incotinence
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early adulthood
- Age: 19 to around 40
- Social development: starting a carrer
- Emotional development: ability to deal with changes is increased
- Intellectual development: learning skills and knowledge for choosen carree.
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Middle adulthood
- Age: 41 to 64
- Social dvelopment: developing a sucessful relationship
- Emotional development: self confidence and accepatance of who they are.
- Intellectual devlopment: ability to process infromation and solve problems will have improved.
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Late adulthood
- Age: 65 till dealth
- Social dvelopment: retirement changes
- Emotional development: feelings of boredom, loneliness and loss
- Intellectual development: decline in information processing abilities
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Phycial development in early adulthood
- nervous systems at peak
- sensory organs at shapest
- peak bone mass achieved
- muscle strength reaches peak
- max height reached
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Physical development in middle adulthood
- bone density decreases
- weight gain
- heart valves thicken and stiffen
- walls or arteries garden
- hearing declines
- eyesight starts to decline
- women experience menopause
- hair starts to thin and turn grey
- wrinkles begin to appear
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Physical development late adulthood
- bone density continues to decline
- spine starts to compact
- muscle tone decreases
- proportion of fat increases
- facial hair on women
- skin thins
- teeth start to fall out
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Angina
- A temporary chest pain or discomfort, particularly during activity, cold temperatures or extremes of emotion.
- arises from decreased oxygen supply due to the narrowing of the coronary arteries.
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Myocardial infarction
- commonly known as a heart attack
- when blood supply to a specific area of heart is stopped
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Hypertension
commonly know as high blood pressure
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Cardiovascular diseases
stroke, coronary heart disease, hypertension and myocardial infarction
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reasons males have lower life expectancy than females
- Females more likly to seek help
- males have more dangerous jobs
- males are more likly to commit suicide
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arteriosclerosis
the process of the narrowing of arteries as a result of build up of fatty deposits on the arterial walls.
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3 specific benefits of physical activity
- improves cardiovascular fitness
- reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes
- helps control weight
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3 categories of exercise
- low: walking
- moderate: jogging
- high: sprinting
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Medicare
- It is a federal govenment initiative, funded through, taxes and administered by the health insurance commission
- purpose is to make health care accessible to all austrailians
- it is compulsory
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What does medicare provide?
- free treatment as a public patient in a public hospital (no choice or doctor)
- x-rays amd pathology test (subsidised)
- Eye tests (sub)
- free (if bulk billed) or subsidised (85% of scheduled fee) treatment by doctors.
- A safety net for people with high medical expenses- once a vertain amount is exceeded, medicare pays 100% of the fee.
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Privitate health insurance
- people can choose to pay
- it is expensive but there isnt as long waiting time.
- privite hospital services
- choice of doctor in public system
- services such as dental and physio
- spectacles and contact lenses
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Alternative/ complementary medicines
- they are those outside of traditional medicine
- examples:
- acupuncture, osteopathy, aroatherapy, naturopathy, meditation, chiropractic, homeopathy, chinese medicine, hypmotherapy ect
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