Promoting Youth Health and Wellbeing - AOS2 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Health issue?
Something that is of a concern or a problem due to its impact on health.
Health issues in Australian Youth?
Vaping, digestive issues, drugs, obesity, anxiety or depression.
Burden of Disease?
A measure of the impact of diseases or injury, specifically it measures the difference between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability.
Measured by a unit called the DALY.
Risk and protective factors for youth health?
Socioeconomic status, media, culture, employment, family, neighbourhood, housing.
Health inequalities?
The difference in health status or in distribution of health risk and protective factors.
Social inequalities?
Unequal distribution of resources, wealth and opportunities within a group or society based on characteristics such as religion, ethnicity, gender, age and class.
Health inequalities that may exist between youth and adults?
- Greater prevalence of injuries (including suicide and self-inflicted injuries and poisoning)
- Greater prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders (drug and alcohol use disorders)
- Greater morbidity associated with depressive disorders and anxiety disorders.
However, in older adults, there was a greater prevalence of coronary heart disease, cancers and musculoskeletal conditions.
Youth Health inequalities? (8)
Injury (safety)
Alcohol use
Illicit drug use
Smoking
Weight issues
Sexual health
Stress
Discrimination
Injury?
An umbrella term that refers to a range of causes of ill health and death including traffic accidents, suicide, poisoning, falls, violence, and drownings.
- leading causes of death for young people aged 15-24 years were suicide (38.8%)
- Land transport accidents were the main reason for hospitalisation of youth in the same year.
Alcohol?
Depressants are drug that slows down the messages travelling down the brain and body.
Short term effects of alcohol?
alcohol can reduce alertness and concentration, coordination skills and problem-solving ability, promote risk taking behaviours, including self-harm and increase aggression.
Long term effects of alcohol?
Binge drinking can also affect brain development, such as memory, the ability to learn and verbal skills, which can increase the risk of alcohol related problems.
Mental health problems including depression, self-harm and suicide.
Contributing factors for alcohol?
Families with less supervision are more likely to drink as are young people exposed to a family member drinking excessively.
Many parents believe that serving alcohol at home teaches children to drink responsibly, however, parents who do not encourage drinking at home have children who are less likely to drink.
Illicit drugs?
Illegal drugs
Pharmaceuticals
Other psychoactive substances
Illegal drugs - drugs prohibited from manufacture, sale or possession in Australia.
Including cannabis, cocaine, heroin.
Pharmaceuticals are drugs available from a pharmacy and over the counter by prescription, which may be subject to misuse.
Other psychoactive substances - legal or illegal, potentially used in a harmful way. E.g. kava, inhaling petrol, paint or glue.
Illicit meaning?
‘within the law.’ anything that is allowed or legal.
Health action?
relates to replacing health-compromising behaviours or environments with health-enhancing behaviours or environments. The intention is to create better health outcomes.
