Question

Outline an appropriate health teaching plan for the ADOLESCENT Write a 350-word paper using APA Format Assignment

Answer 1

Health teaching plan for the ADOLESCENT:

Adolescent and young peoples are vulnerable to range of health risks that may affect them immediately, such as infectious disease, malnutrition, accidents or sexually transmitted diseases and cardiovascular strokes, cancer. These risks may originate as results of their life style and health status during adolescence. Still another risk is to offspring of adolescence when teenage pregnancy takes place.

Health problems facing adults:

• Mental health problems related to psychosocial development
• Adolescent sexual growth problems
• Teenage pregnancy

Problems most common in youth:

• reproductive health problems, including maternal mortality and morbidity
• STDs such as HIV and AIDS
• Accidents and injuries
• Drug addiction, smoking alcoholism
• Dental health problems
• Communicable disease such as TB, Pneumonia.

Life style may affect the future health:

• Inappropriate lifestyle based on excessive and unbalanced dietary consumption
• Lack of physical activity
• These factors interact with each other, leading to obesity cardiovascular disorders and diabetes

Nutrition and dietary education for Adults:

• Age: At the beginning of the puberty, with increase of height and weight at the last stag of the adolescence
• Gender: Adolescent girls required 10% more nutrients iron and iodine particular in boys
• Pregnancy: During the second half in particular, as wells first six of breast feeding. It is advised that first pregnancy after marriage be postponed at least until the girl is over 18 years old, because it might not possible to meet additional requirements, especially among middle income and poor families.
• Under nutrition which results from consumption of an inadequate food Ex; less than the daily requirements its continuous for long period of time. This prevails in poor families, in addition hit by chronic infection, such as tuberculosis and parasites.
• Adopting balanced diet that contains appropriate amounts of food from different categories such as energy giving, body building protective food

Obesity Education:

• The best way to treat obesity is to lose weight by eating low calorie meals and by using alternatives to sugar
• Regular exercise and sports as necessary to burn up calories   
• Medication for losing weight are available but not all are useful and safe
• Moderate food intake during meals, avoid junk food snacks in between main meals and from addiction to chocolate and sweets, soft drinks and nuts when watching television or at any time

Healthy Home:

As the home is place for physical rest and inner psychological peace, it’s should be kept clean and tidy. Its should also be spacious as family income allows, providing separate sleeping arrangements for adolescent boys and girls.