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Understanding Health Concerns: Biomedical, Environmental, and Lifestyle Factors

Learn about health concerns such as breast cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, hypertension, anaemia, and more by understanding how biomedical, environmental, and lifestyle factors influence their development. Discover the impact of genetics, attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors on various health conditions.

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Understanding Health Concerns: Biomedical, Environmental, and Lifestyle Factors

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  1. How to remember the health concerns • Breast cancer Big • Osteoporosis Olga • Heart disease Hates • Hypertension Housework/herpes • Anaemia And • Dental Caries Doesn’t • Colo rectal cancer Clean • Diabetes type 2 Down • Skin cancer Stairs

  2. Remembering the Determinants of Health • B – biomedical factors • A – attitudes, knowledge and beliefs • G - genetics • E – environmental and social factors • L – lifestyle and behaviours

  3. Biomedical factorshow do they affect health?

  4. Biomedical factors • High blood pressure • High blood sugar levels • Obesity • High cholesterol levels

  5. Biomedical factors lead to High blood pressure – stroke /Heart disease High blood glucose levels - Diabetes type 2 Overweight and Obesity – heart disease – strokes, heart attack High cholesterol levels – strokes and heart attacks.

  6. Attitudes, lack of knowledge and beliefs lead to: • Heart disease • Hypertension • Diabetes • Skin cancer • Anaemia • Oesteoporosis For example attitudes towards smoking and drinking ,physical exercise and diet lead to heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. The belief that a bronze tan is healthy leads to skin cancer A lack of knowledge about iron in the diet leads to anaemia A lack of knowledge about calcium in the diet leads to oesteoporosis Parental attitudes about letting their children drink soft drinks leads to dental caries

  7. Genetics influence: • Osteoporosis – women’s oestrogen levels drop during menopause – causes calcium uptake to be reduced • Heart disease - high cholesterol levels can be genetic • Hypertension - men have higher levels of blood pressure due to testosterone • Breast cancer – women have higher rates due to hormone levels

  8. Environment influences: • Skin cancer – sun • Type 2 diabetes – fast food outlets • Heart disease – lack of areas for physical exercise • Hypertension – cars – less walking or lack of areas to exercise • Dental caries – no fluoride in the water • Obesity – lack of areas to exercise safely will reduce people’s opportunities to reduce weight

  9. Lifestyle leads to: • Breast cancer and colorectal cancer – diet high in saturated fats due to high amounts of fast food increase risk and high amounts of alcohol also increase the risk • Hypertension, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis- lack of physical activity • Hypertension, heart disease – high stress levels, take away foods • Skin cancer – outdoors lifestyle

  10. Protective factors for these diseases • Exercise, fruit, vegetables, iron, calcium,flouride

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