Chapter 5: Health and Prevention Flashcards
Whats the definition of Morbidity Rate?
- this is illness rate at which acute and chronic conditions occur
- greater for younger adults
What are Acute Conditions?
- these are conditions that develop over a short period of time, rapid change in health
- eg. flu and colds
What are Chronic Conditions?
- conditions lasts a long time (minimum of 3 months)
- increased risk with age
What are the 5 most common chronic conditions?
- Allergies
- Back Problems
- Hypertension
- Osteoarthritis
- Diabetes
What is Mutual-morbidity
- experiences more than one condition at a time
- low income females are at the greatest risk
- older indigenous adults experience higher prevalence rates across all conditions
What is a Disability?
- WHO: “health” state of well-being, physical, mental and social well being
- often resulting from chronic conditions, unable to complete activities that are necessary, expected and personally desired
- closely related to quality of life
- fairly high rates for chronic conditions but the majority reported satisfied or vey satisfied with lives (90%)
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADL)?
- personal care for self maintenance
- eating, dressing, getting around the house
- necessary to live independently
What are Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
- these are more complex (cognitive) activities
- medication, finances, cooking
- getting around the community
- culture specific
- rates of disability have declined
What are the risk factors for Cardiovascular disease
- tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, obesity
What are the risk factors for Cancer
- tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, obesity
Risk factors for Diabetes
- unhealthy lifestyle, sedentary lifestyle, obesity
Risk factors for Chronic Lung Disease
tobacco use
Statistics about Disease
- chronic disease and disability is not an inevitable part of aging
- 75% of adults over 65 have no aspects of disability
- 80% over 85 are aging place
What are Cardiovascular Diseases
- involves the heart and blood vessels
- number one cause of death worldwide
What is Arteriosclerosis
- cardiovascular disease
- the thickening and hardening of arteries
- primary aging, cross linking (collagen)
What is Atherosclerosis
- cardiovascular disease
- fat deposits (plaques) and calcification of arterial walls
- secondary aging
What is Coronary Heart Disease
- cardiovascular disease
- this is damage caused by atherosclerosis affects arteries that feed the heart (chronic condition)
What is Myocardial Infarction (MI)
- cardiovascular disease
- heart attack
- acute condition
- decreased blood supply to the heart
What is Hypertension
- cardiovascular disease
- chronically elevated blood pressure
What is Congestive Heart Failure
- cardiovascular disease
- when the heart cannot meet the demands of the body, gets backed up (fluid buildup), causing the heart to pump insufficiently
What is a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
- cardiovascular disease
- this is when the leading artery to the brain burst or is clogged and then brain becomes deprived of oxygen (blood clots or burst blood vessels in the brain)
- results in stroke, permanent damage
What is Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
- cardiovascular disease
- mini strokes, temporary blockage (typically a blood clot)
- blood flow should come back, where as with a stroke there is permanent damage to the brain
Gender differences for Heart Attack
- cardiovascular disease
- gender differences in progression , reoccurrence and symptoms
What are the risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- smoking : damages arteries
- inactivity
- unhealthy diet- not enough fruits and veg
- obesity- LDLs
- high alcohol consumption
What is a Metabolic Syndrome
- a group of 5 conditions that can lead to cardiovascular diseases
1. High blood sugar
2. high blood pressure
3. low HDL and high LDL
4. high triglycerides
5. excess fat around waist
What type of cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada?
- lung: most deadly and most common in older adults
- death rate is declining rapidly- treatment, detection and prevention is getting better (better screening)
What are the risk factors for cancer?
- risk factors increase with age
- genetics: breast and colon
- smoking
- inactivity
- overweight (red and processed meats)
- UV rays- tanning beds before age 30 increase you chance of skin cancer by 75%
- hormones
- environmental and lifestyle factors
What are detection factors for Cancer
- screening and early detection are key
- genetic testing (gene mutation BRCA1 and BRCA2, breast and ovarian cancers)
Prevention methods for Cancer
- surgery, radiation, chemotherapy
- screening for mammograms, prostate cancer, are there risks to this? (not super effective)
Which gene mutations are linked to breast and ovarian cancer?
BCRA1 and BCRA2
What is Osteoarthritis
- musculoskeletal system
- cartilage deterioration In joints
- exercises like swimming is good because it has less strain on the joints
What is Osteoporosis
- musculoskeletal system
- bones become weak and brittle (cross-linking of collagen)
- more common in women
What are the risk factors for osteoporosis
- women of european and asian descent
- small bone structure
- underweight
- post-menopausal
- excessive alcohol and smoking
- strength bearing exercise are beneficial