Community Health and Disease Prevention

Running Head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVENTION
Community health and disease prevention
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Part 1................................................................................................................................................3
Behavioral Strategy......................................................................................................................4
Medical Strategy..........................................................................................................................5
Part 2................................................................................................................................................5
Part 3................................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8

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1. Introduction
A major causative agent for hypertension is high blood pressure which might be the cause of
chronic diseases like heart failure, chronic disease of the kidney or coronary heart diseases. High
blood pressure can also be caused by lack of proper diet, excess consumption of alcohol, extreme
stages of obesity, poor metabolism causing out of lack of physical exercise and so on. High
blood pressure is a predominant health condition among 17% of the women along with 21% of
male, according to the reports of the World Health Organization. The Health and Welfare
Institute of Australia, reports that in Australia, 1 out of 3 individuals (adult) have conditions of
high blood pressure. In the year 2011, 32% of the adult individuals in the country were found to
be diabetic. In another 4 years, the percentage rose to 34%. The fasting glucose level of the
people of Australia is 3.1 higher than rest of the world. The Community based Interaction
strategy of Laverack’s Ladder will be used in this research study. The report will cover the
aspects of the core domain and also discuss the approaches as well as models related to health
promotion (Cushman et al. 2016).
Part 1
As per the statistics revealed by the Health Survey Association of Australia of 2014-15, 1 out of
3 Australians who are aged over 18 are diagnosed with high blood pressure. Among 13% of the
blood pressure patients have uncontrollable blood pressure. 11% of them are under medication
for controlling blood pressure (Williams et al. 2018). For the male citizens, the average systolic
pressure is higher (126 mmHg) compared to females who have 120 mm Hg blood pressure in
general. The diastolic blood pressure of both men and women are lying at an average of 77 mm
of Hg. 79% of the citizens of Australia shows tendency of high blood pressure and conditions of
obesity. Moreover, 42% people are reportedly indulged in very less exercise work. In this report,

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the Laverack’s Ladder of community based interaction has been used as guide for addressing
hypertension. The key straggles that are going to be used here are medical strategy, socio-
ecological strategy as well as behavioral strategy.
The Medical Strategy advocates for appropriate counseling, proper treatment as well as
diagnosed facility. Behavioral strategy incorporates better health choices as well as behavior,
better diet choices as well as health lifestyle. In the end, the socio-economic strategy targets the
preliminary stages of ladder in case of community based interaction. As per Markey et al. (2016),
the main goal is to develop awareness among the community members regarding hypertension,
complications, the disease processes as well as health outcomes. A survey in general is needed to
be carried out for developing an overview regarding the behavioral attitudes, prevalence of risk
factors as well as complications due to the disease processes. In this context, it needs mention
that a well informed community is supposed to be better receptive compared to activities related
to health promotion. The utilization of mass media approach will also be helpful for educating
the people and it is expected that the leaders of the society will also be participating in this
activity (Vamvakis et al. 2017).
Behavioral Strategy
There are two major components of this strategy, namely health seeking behavior and changes in
life style. There are three different heads of classification for people as per this behavioral
strategy. These are people who are immune to high risk factors, people who are highly prone to
acquiring the disease and people who are currently infected with the disease. Communication
regarding changes of behavior will be done within these 3 groups and the divisions of people
under these three segments will be overlapping also. Therefore, it can be assessed that people
who are currently infected with the disease will be consulting the doctor and will also be liable to