Common Physical Health Issues in Mental Health Consumers

Mental Health Nursing
Common physical health
Issues

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................3
Overview of physical health conditions in context to mental health consumers........................3
Critical analysis and review of physical condition prevalence and impact on mental health ....4
Recommendation of the evidence based practices......................................................................5
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Common health issues or physical health problems are the related to the inappropriate
functioning of body such as cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, infectious diseases (Gonzales, &
Henning-Smith, (2017). Obesity and so on. Person with the mental illness posses the higher
chances of chronic physical illness both are they of co-existing factors. Both mental and physical
health get impacted by the inappropriate body functioning and emotional changes. This report is
for the study of different physical health conditions face by the mental health consumers and
what are the further more impact of physical health conditions on mental health consumers along
with the evaluation of their prevalence. Different intervention and evidence based practices are
going to be evaluated with in the application of appropriate literature review techniques and on
the basis of evidence based study effective recommendation is going to be illustrated in context
to the best care and management of mental health consumers.
MAIN BODY
Overview of physical health conditions in context to mental health consumers
There is the fundamental relationship between physical and mental health, individual
which the serious mental illness are at the higher risk of chronic physical issues (Jones, (2017).
Opposite to that people with chronic physical health conditions can face the huge problem of
mental illness due to the worst factors developing from physical illness such as depression and
anxiety (Townsend, M. C., & Morgan, K. I. (2017). So there is the major chances of co-existing of
mental and physical conditions which can destroy the life of patient. There are some common
physical health issues explain below which co-existing with mental health illness.
Heart disease- This is related to the heart functional problems this can be either coronary
heart disease, high blood pressure and stork. In context to the mental health issues influence
major issue is stroke and high blood pressure.
Factors influencing the prevalence of heart disease under the mental health condition
Mental health illness contribute to the abnormal level of the stress hormones secretion
which increase the heart rate. Mental health consumers can face the issue of abnormal heart
rhythm due to the consumption of antipsychotic medication. So all these factors contribute to the
development of severe heard disease.