NURS 4440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Aids, Female Genital Mutilation, Hiv
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Chapter 20 health risks across the life span. Children"s health: major health problems: obesity: due to genetics, family eating, and physical activity pattern, time spent viewing. Tv, playing computer games, or using electronic devices: increases risk of cardiovascular, metabolic, musculoskeletal, respiratory, and renal problems and type 2 diabetes. Add, substance abuse, sleep disorders, autism, depression, bipolar, etc: tobacco use, nutrition - factors influencing nutrition, nutritional assessment, nutrition during infancy, nutrition during childhood, & Women"s health: health disparities among special groups of women: women of color, rural women: don"t see the need for healthcare and may often have a cancer diagnosis due to waiting too long to seek treatment. Incarcerated women: alcohol and drug use: lesbians and bisexual women: decrease the risk of stds, women with disabilities, women with lower-level education, with lower incomes, and who are enrolled in. Medicare programs: linked to health care (increased education is linked to better education and to better health care)
