Cardiovascular Disorders and Their Impact on Individuals, Families, and Communities

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Cardiovascular disorder and impact on individual family and community:
Cardiovascular disorder can be referred to the collective term of the diseases of heart as
well as blood vessels. This term mainly includes diseases such as the coronary heart disease,
cardiomyopathy, heart failure as well as congenital heart diseases, peripheral vascular disorder
and even stroke (Sahle et al. 2016). Many of these conditions are found to be life-threatening. In
the year 2014-2015, about 4.2 million adults in the nation was seen to suffer from disorders of
the circulatory systems that accounted for about 18.35 of the population. This included about 1.2
million people who had cardiovascular conditions like that of stroke and heart diseases. About
2.6 million people have seen to be reporting having high blood pressure and about 430000
people who had experienced heart attack.
The patient might face short term complications like that of angina. For this, they may be
afraid of themselves in exerting themselves for the fear of chest pain and other uncomfortable
symptoms. They may develop swelling as well as dizziness and other symptoms that can affect
their ability in completing their daily tasks and resulting in losing of freedom and independence.
They may also suffer from stress knowing that they would have to stay with long term ailemnts
that may cause stroke or heart attack at any time (Shipley et al. 2016). Individuals who are
suffering from the disorder had to lead restricted lifestyle that may also affect their morale.
Families might face financial burdens because if one of the family members get affected by the
disorders, huge money would be spent on healthcare services. Families have to care for the
patients as many of them lose their independence and this might result in stress and frustration
among family members. They might face social exclusion resulting in loss of mental stability
and agitations and frustration. The communities which have higher levels of cardiovascular

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patients might show lower productivity and high rate of absenteeism in the schools, colleges,
offices and other places.
Relationship between health issue and at least one of the Australian National Health
Priorities:
Most of the premature deaths as well as much of the morbidity caused by the
cardiovascular disorder are considered to be preventable. The Australian National Health
Priorities had identified cardiovascular disorders as one of the national health priority which
share its risk factors with many of the other several health conditions like diabetes and some
major types of cancer and therefore, AIWH states that it is important for addressing these risk
factors in order to produce wider health gains than just flowing directly from a reduction in
cardiovascular disorders (Tooher et al. 2017). Five of the twenty leading cause of death in the
year 2007 were attributed to some form of cardiovascular disorders. These five causes had been
found to account for about 40,688 deaths or about 30% of all the registered deaths in the year
2007. The major underlying causes of the disorders are the heart failure, coronary heart disease,
stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. Cardiovascular disorders was found to be the underlying
cause of around 46626 deaths that had been registered in the nation in 2007 which represented
about 34% of all deaths (Hocking et al. 2017). These diseases also contributed to around 78351
deaths as either an underlying as well as an associated cause of death. In the year 2014/2015, 6
million people accounting for about 34% aged 18 years and over had high blood and in the year
2011/2012, one third-third of the adult population aged 18 years and over had measured of high
cholesterol. The later represents for about 5.6 million adults. This scenario shows that it has
indeed become one of the most important health concerns in the present moment and needs to be
handled with urgency.