Epidemiology of Adolescent Health ✅ Flashcards
What is the importance of the adolescent period when considering health promotion?
Adolescence is a key period for establishing health promoting and preventing health risk behaviours
What influences the health promoting/risk behaviours in the adolescent period?
- Family
- Peers
- Local community
- Education
What are the strongest determinants of the health of adolescents worldwide?
- National wealth
- Income inequality
- Access to education
Give an example of a social change in the UK that has occurred for the better
Increased participation in further and higher education
Give an example of a social change that has occurred in the UK for the worse?
Increased youth unemployment
What are the main causes of death in adolescents?
- Traffic accidents
- Violence related
- Self-harm
- Neoplasms
- Diseases of the nervous system, e.g. muscular dystrophy
- Congenital and chromosomal abnormalities
Is death in adolescents more or less common than in younger children?
More (if infants are excluded)
What is happening to the death rate in adolescents?
It is reducing
Give an example of a disease group where the reduction in mortality seen in other age groups has not been seen in adolescents?
Adolescent-onset cancer mortality is unchanged, compared to improved rates in child and adult-onset disease
Give an example of a disease group where the mortality for adolescents is higher than in other ages?
Rejection related death from cardiac transplant - highest in adolescent and young adult groups
What causes the difference in outcomes in some disease groups in adolescents?
Unknown, but likely that intrinsic and extrinsic factors are contributing
What intrinsic factors might contribute to the difference in outcome in some disease groups in adolescents?
- Aspects of adolescent development, including puberty and brain development
What extrinsic factors might contribute to the difference in outcome in some disease groups in adolescents?
Health service provision
What does resilience refer to?
The ability to rebound from adversity and be flexible in adaptable
Why is resilience important when taking history from adolescents?
Resilience can protect health and emotional wellbeing
