#15 Adopting a healthy lifestyle Flashcards
In the U.S. More than ____ percent don’t have a diet that is optimal for their health.
Nearly ___ percent are overweight or obese.
Almost ___ percent do not get enough exercise to reach a threshold for health benefit.
80%
70% overweight or obese
70% don’t get enough exercise for threshold benefits
In 2013 what were the top 3 reasons people died?
45% suicide infections, kidney failure, lung failure and other
32% cardiovascular disease
23% cancer
Summary:
70% of causes of death lifestyle related and preventable
findings from 1972 long term study in Louisiana of how early heart disease began
Heart disease can start in children and is evident at five to eight years of age.
Poor diet and sedentary living lead to health risks, which lead to disease.
Lifestyles and behaviors are learned early in life.
Chronic disease prevention in adults should begin in childhood.
T/F
unborn babies can be affected by their mothers’ lifestyle habits. In other words, the nutritional status of the mother was linked to the presence of fatty streaks in the coronary vessels of the unborn fetus.
TRUE
CABG
coronary artery bypass grafting While CABG can bypass the area of blockage in a coronary artery, the graft itself will become 30–50 percent blocked after five to seven years
balloon angioplasty and balloon angioplasty with stenting
After four to six months, 30–50 percent of ballooned arteries re-close, and 20–30 percent of arteries propped open by stents re-close
The American Cancer Society has stated that eliminating smoking could inhibit _____ of all new cancer diagnoses, and another ____could be avoided with proper diet and regular exercise
1/3 and 1/3
In a national survey of thirteen thousand obese adults who had recently had a routine medical exam, only ____ percent of them were counseled by their physicians to lose weight. Only ____ percent of those surveyed reported that their physician mentioned regular exercise as an important part of good health
42% lose weight
35% regular exercise
About 50% of the population of the United States only spends ____ of the healthcare dollars. The other 50% are spending ___ of healthcare dollars
3%
97%
just 5 percent of the population responsible for almost ___ percent of all spending. At the other end, half of the population accounts for just 3 percent of spending.
50%
Rising prices per unit of service have played a larger role than ________ as a determinant of recent expenditure growth.
rising utilization rates
Key drivers of rising unit prices and higher utilization include
advances in medical technology, rising treated prevalence rates for chronic disease, and increased provider consolidation and market power.
US spending for health care has been on a relentless upward path—reaching $2.5 trillion in the aggregate, _____ per person, and ____ percent of GDP in 2009.
$8,100 per person
17.6 % GDP
As more people are being diagnosed with and treated for chronic conditions, including many linked to rising obesity rates, high health spending has spread to a larger segment of the population. The spending distribution remains ____ _____
highly concentrated
Higher spending for hospital care and physician and clinical services accounted for ____ of the increase in total national health spending between 2005 and 2009, and more than ____ percent of the increase in private insurance premiums over the period.
half
80%
T / F Since 1997, national health expenditures have consumed a larger and larger portion of the gross domestic product with part of the burden also being shared by the individual consumer.
True
From this figure, you can see that ___ percent of the population is responsible for only 3.1 percent of the spending. Furthermore, only 10 percent of the population is responsible for 63.6 percent of the spending, and a very small percentage of the population, only 5 percent, is responsible for nearly half of the spending (47.5 percent). With this kind of realization, it is not hard to see that current spending trends are not sustainable.
50%
who are the highest spenders on health care
Persons over age 55 are the highest spenders.
5 most expensive health conditions in order
and what % of spending do they account for?
heart disease cancer trauma mental disorders pulmonary conditions account for 37% of spending
The most expensive poor-health condition is heart disease, but more than ____ percent of heart disease cases are preventable with lifestyle modification.
70%
Healthy people is:
Healthy People is a set of goals and objectives with ten-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of all people in the United States.
