FN 203 Lecture 17: Consumer Health
29 Nov 2016
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Ability to understand health information and use it to make good decisions about health and medical care. Limited literacy have reported poor health, chronic conditions (diabetes/asthma), stop taking needed meds, and have higher rates of preventable hospitalizations. Find good advice online ( look online) Single drop of blood can tell you the diseases you are most likely to develop. Women see doctors more often than men. Women get into the habit of making regular visits to health care professionals. Men conditioned to tough-it out for early symptoms of disease. Women more dissatisfied with hospital visits than men. But both tend to spend 80% of their lifetime free of disability. Vital signs: measurements of physiological functioning, specifically, temperature, Links with chronic oral infection and heart and lung diseases, stroke, low birth weight, premature births and diabetes. Gum disease = may develop heart disease, stroke, uncontrolled diabetes, preterm births, and respiratory disease. Without proper care, teeth may decay and develop gum disease.
