Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Asthma!.....
- Description & Why is it
an NHPA?
- Define: inflammation of the airways which
causes them to narrow and leads to
difficulty in breathing.
- begin at any stage in life but most likely to develop in childhood
- No cure but can be
controlled by a reliever
such as Ventolin
- Attacks can be severe and cause
respiratory arrests resulting in
hospitalisation and sometimes death.
- It is an NHPA b/c it is responsible for 2.3% of
BOD, suffered by 2.5 million, most commonly
reported long term condition and one of the most
frequent reasons for hospitalisation with significant
treatment costs.
- Costs
- Direct
- Individuals
- health services
- medication
- ambulance
- community
- medicare/PHI/PBS
- health initiatives
- Indirect
- Individuals
- lost income
- cost of carers
- Community
- lost productivity
- lost tax revenue
- children miss school
- Parents productivity and financial costs
- Intangible
- Individuals
- missing school
- Increased anxiety if
attacks are frequent
- Frustration because you cant participate in physical activity
- Community
- anxiety by parents with young asthma suffers
- Anxiety if suffered by elderly and they live alone
- Determinants
- Biological
- Excess body weight
- overweight = high risk
- Genetic Predisposition
- family history more likely
- Gender
- males more likely up to age of 15
- Age
- common in those 1-24 yo
- Behavioural
- Tobacco Smoke
- exposure to uterus may lead to increase asthma in the bab
- smoking increases rates of asthma
- Physical Environment
- Air quality
- Major cities and industrial areas at an increased risk
- Work Environment
- exposure to pollutants can increase the risk
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Second hand smoke is risk factor for young children
- Housing
- inadequate ventilation may increase the pollution
and risk of asthma for people living in the house
- Social
- Socioeconomic Status
- more likely to have asthma
- Higher smoking rates and increased exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
- Early Life Experiences
- Mothers who smoke in the womb may elevate child’s risk
- Health Promotion
- Asthma Friendly Schools program
- aims to reduce exposure to potential triggers
in schools and provide education on how to
manage asthma
- National Asthma Council
- Triple A program
- facilitates peer
education to reduce
the impact asthma
has on young suffers