Question

eek 3 Discussion Topics

• Discuss how factors relating to biological and age-related risks, environmental risks, and behavioral risks contribute to family health and the achievement of healthy outcomes.
• Discuss activities that the nurse practicing in the community can implement to assist families to decrease health risks

Answer 1

• Advance age
• Genetic pre disposition
• Advanced age
• Environmental pollution
• High risk behaviour
• Alcoholim
• Smoking
• High risk sexual behaviour
• Exposure to hazardous substances in the air, water, soil, and food.
• Natural and technological disasters.
• Climate change.
• Occupational hazards.
• The built environment.

All these are the biological and age-related risks, environmental risks, and behavioral risks which may inturn affect the health and healthy outcomes of individual. Environmental hazards increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, asthma, and many other illnesses. These hazards can be physical, such as pollution, toxic chemicals, and food contaminants, or they can be social, such as dangerous work, poor housing conditions, urban sprawl, and poverty.Many things in the environment can affect our health. Hazardous substances found in the air, soil and water can originate from a variety of sources, such as agricultural and industrial activities, mining operations, landfills and leaky underground storage tanks can cause serious health issues and occupational diseases.

Behavioural risk factors include overweight or obesity, smoking, physical inactivity, and risky alcohol consumption can cause serious health issues. They can cause, hypertension, DM, cancer, stroke like modern diseases.

All these factors never improve the health and healthy outcome of individuals. All these factors have negative effect up on the health of individuals.

Discuss activities that the nurse practicing in the community can implement to assist families to decrease health risks

1. A general health survey can be carried out in the community at frequent intervals.
2. Identifies needs, priorities, and problems of individuals, families, and communities
3. Closely monitior the high risk category and vulnerable population like, old age, childrens, new borns, pregnanat womens to identify the risk.
4. Detects deviation from health of individuals, families, groups, and communities through contacts/visits with them
5. Educate the family about the preventive measures and hygeinic practices to be followed for the prevention of health risk
6. Teach them about the importance of timely vaccines available for the population.
7. Develops the family’s capability to take care of the sick, disabled, or dependent member
8. Carry out the health checkups like BP monitoring, weight monitoring, blood glucose monitoring etc.
9. Offer education to community members about maintaining their health so that they can decrease the occurrence of diseases and deaths.
10. Direct them to the health services available in community.
11. Motivates and enhances community participation in terms of planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating health services
12. Initiates and participates in community development activities
13. Provides direct nursing care to sick or disabled in the home, clinic, school, or workplace
14. Participates in the conduct of survey studies and researches on nursing and health-related subjects.
15. Provide care during illness for which usually the family members come forward to seek help.
16. Can explores community resources in terms of money, manpower, material, agencies etc.
17. Can makes use of these resources in helping individual, family groups and community to meet their health and nursing needs.
18. In case of a client with diabetes mellitus, the community health nurse advices with concern on the foods to be included and avoided. The same way she can suggest the dietary plans for a pregnant women, lactating women, hypertensive patient, old age etc.
19. Can educate the family about the importance of family planning, reproductive health and small family norm.
20. Can obtains orders from the physician and explains it clearly to the clients, families, helps and guides them to carry on medical treatment at home.