Interprofessional Health Promotion Resources

Running head: INTERPROFESSIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION RESOURCES
DIVERSE POPULATIONS, AGE AND INTERPROFESSIONAL HEALTH
PROMOTION RESOURCES
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Introduction
Aging is a progressive event which depends on the time related deterioration and
progressive loss of physiological functions that increases the dependency of any individual on
their surrounding and more specifically to another individual (Same et al., 2016). There are
several physiological and lifestyle factors that not only affects the healthcare of aging population,
but also increases their complications. One such lifestyle factor is sedentary lifestyle or lack of
physical activity that affects people by increasing their physical and mental health problems such
a cancer, depression, stress and anxiety and others (Johnson et al., 2014). This paper aims to
connect the effect of socioeconomic status of the risk of sedentary lifestyle for the adult
population (young, middle and older adults). Further, the risk factors related to sedentary
lifestyle would be provided with appropriate interventions. Finally, few examples of resources
for interprofessional collaboration would be added in this paper.
Epidemiology
The USA guideline for physical activity 2008 mentions that adults across their lifespan
should be involved in 150 minutes of physical activity so that they could overcome their
sedentary lifestyle and associated health complications (Johnson et al., 2014). As per Carson et
al. (2016), epidemiological reports mentioned that proper physical activity is useful in decreasing
the risk of osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer, obesity and premature mortality. The recent study by
CDC mentioned that 25 to 35% adults (excluding the adolescents) due to their sedentary
lifestyle, jobs or inactive lifestyle in their house due to old age (Johnson et al., 2014).

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Influence of SES, age, gender ethnicity and spirituality
The association between SES and sedentary lifestyle is effective in determining the effect
of economic stability, access to education and healthcare, spirituality and gender distribution and
age distribution on the achievement of health (Konevic, Martinovic & Djonovic, 2015). In this
aspect, the research of Sugisawa et al. (2019) should be mentioned as it mentions that people
with high SES acquires the access to effective healthcare and hence, are able to gain educational
awareness regarding the topics which would help them to maintain their health condition,
throughout their lifespan (Lin et al., 2017). Whereas, people with lack of access to such facilities
are unable to achieve their basic fundamental needs and hence awareness regarding healthcare
improvement are of no use for their survival. With age, people transfer from level of dependency
and from younger adult to older adult, they transferred from no- dependency to higher
dependency in elderly adulthood (Wang & Geng, 2019). Therefore, the level of physical activity
also gets hampered and they developed sedentary lifestyle. Ethical minorities are always
associated to low SES and hence, people with a specific ethnicity and low income background
are unable to obtain proper care for their ailments (Sugisawa et al., 2019). However, majority of
the people with low income or lower SES are seen to have highly active lifestyle as their struggle
of survival increases their activity. Age and SES are also collated with each other, as Konevic,
Martinovic and Djonovic (2015) mentioned that women are more affected with sedentary
lifestyle in USA than men due to their less active lifestyle. Hence, these factors influenced the
physical activity.