Cardiovascular Disorders: Overview

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Cardiovascular disorders
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Cardiovascular disorders: Overview
Cardiovascular disease is actually the term generally used to describe the diseases associated
with heart and blood vessels such as peripheral vascular disorder, coronary heart disorder, heart
failure, cardiomyopathy, stroke, and congenital heart disease. Among all the disease associated
with the CVDs coronary heart disorder is the recognised as the most common in Australian
population (Department of Health, 2017). The genetic predispositions, cultural and ethnic
background, older age are the most non-modifiable risk factors of cardiovascular diseases.
Although, there are certain other risk factors including fatness or being overweight, tobacco
consumption, lack of physical activities, poor dietary intake, and excessive consumption of
alcohol. Moreover some biomedical factors that may also contribute in causing CVD are high
BP, and increased levels of cholesterol in the blood (AIHW, 20111). Occasionally the diseases
like diabetes may also give rise for the development of cardiovascular disorders. According to
the data published by Department of Health (2017) diabetic individuals are twice likely to
develop CVD compare to the health people.
Cardiovascular disease in Australia
Even though some improvement s in last few decades, it becomes the biggest burdens on the
health care systems and economy of Australia. It has been identified that CVD is the leading
cause of expiries specifically in Australia as it accounts for 43,477 deaths in 2017. This
particular health issues kills one individual in every 12 minutes in Australia, which indicates that
on average, 119 Australian expire from this disease every day (The Heart Foundation, 2018).
The proportion of people living with this health conditions is growing each year, this is because

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the Australian populations is the aging populations and the advance treatment options available
which is ultimately leads to the people living longer life with this health condition.
A statistical data published by the AIHW (2018) indicates that CVD accounted for nearly 27 per
cent of all expiries happened in 2017 in Australia, in the year 2016 and 2017, nearly 576,000
hospitalisations has been reported. According to AIHW (2018), the rate of CVDs separations
has been flowed each year in past few decades, on an average of 2.2 per cent. According to The
heart foundation (2018), at the fact when compared with other Australian population, the
prevalence rate of Cardiovascular diseases among persons from the inferior financial gatherings,
the groups like Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and those living in local and
remote areas are high.
Review of services, initiatives of government and currently
available programs to address CVDs:
To support the preventions, identifications, treatment methods and management of this health
issues, the Australian government and other non-government bodes are collectively functioning
by implanting different programs and services.
Some of the programs sand approaches used by Australian government to deal with CVDs are:
 Causal link between the social determinants and CVDs among the Australian people, is
being investigated by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC),
priority has been given by this organisation to advance the patient care in its strategic
plan implemented in 2012 to 2015 (The Department of Health, 2017).