Analyzing Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Trends in Australia

This report examines the significant public health challenge posed by cardiovascular disease in Australia, with a focus on obesity as a primary risk factor. It highlights that a substantial percentage of the Australian population is overweight or obese, contributing to hypertension, diabetes, and increased cardiovascular mortality. The report references the Australian Burden of Disease Study 2017 and Australia's Health Tracker 2016, emphasizing the economic burden and disability-adjusted life years lost due to cardiovascular disease. It further outlines Australian health policies aimed at preventing obesity through regular exercise, dietary modifications, and weight monitoring. The report also briefly touches on whooping cough as another cause of mortality in Australia, contrasting its preventability through vaccination with the lifestyle adjustments required to combat cardiovascular disease. Desklib provides access to similar reports and study resources for students.

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PART 1: RESEARCH OF HEALTH FACTOR IN AUSTRALIAN HEALTH TRACKER
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading chronic diseases in Australia that has high
morbidity rate. One of the prime risk factors is obesity that exponentially increases the morbidity
rate of the majority of the population. Therefore, this paper focuses on prime risk factor related
to cardiovascular, health statistics of Australian population, burden of it and health policy in
following paragraph.
Cardiovascular diseases are the consequences of build up plaques in blood vessels and
heart. One of the major risk factor of cardiovascular diseases is obesity. 63.4% of the non-
indigenous adult in Australian population are obese and 71.4% of the aboriginal adults in the
population are overweight (Tolhurst et al., 2016). Australian burden of the disease study, 2017
reported that almost 2 in 3 adults in Australia are overweight. Obesity is also reason for
hypertension, diabetes and high blood pressures. Cardiovascular disease kills one Australian
every 12 minute. Therefore, it remains biggest burden in the economy. Nearly 43, 963 Australian
died in 2016. However, there is room for improvement in health as researchers are working on
the data base record generated by Australian health tracker. Accumulated evidences suggested
that in 2025 Australian would halt the exponential rise of the obesity in population (Tolhurst et
al., 2016). In 2011, 201 years of healthy life lost due to cardiovascular disease, and that is 4.5
million DALY ( disability adjusted life year) (Hoque et al., 2016). Total burden of
cardiovascular disease is quite low for older people such as individual over 85 years but the rate
of burden per 1000 population is quite high. However, large proportion of this burden is
preventable by reducing overweight. Otherwise, obese individuals in population generally

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experiences are other secondary disease such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke,
mental illness due to social stigma, coronary heart disease, body pain and difficulty with
functioning. To prevent the leading cause of cardiovascular disease obesity Australia strategies
some health policies for every layer of the population. Exercising regularly for 150 to 300
minutes for preventing weight gain, Avoiding saturated fat, alcohol and sugar, Monitoring the
weight regularly in order understand the how much effort need to give for preventing the disease,
Monitoring the eating pattern and timing of the consuming food are the health strategies that
outlined by government of Australia (Trottier, 2017).
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Thus, it can be concluded that cardiovascular disease is one of the predominant cause of
deathin Australia. Australian health tracker able to track the prevalence of cardiovascular disease
and shows where afford need to give for reduction of risk factors such obesity. However, few
health care strategies will prevent the obesity in next few years.
PART 2: DISCUSSION BOARD CRITERIA:
Whooping cough is another leading cause of death in Australia. A baby of 32 days died
in whooping cough in Australia from heart failure. It is extremely contagious in nature and
individual can easily infected by whooping cough (Murthy et al., 2018). However, the fatal cases
of whooping cough are rare in Australia.
In Australia, cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death where as in
whooping cough the mortality rate is low. However, cardiovascular disease is preventable by
proper health strategy but whopping cough only prevented by proper vaccination.

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Murthy, S., Godinho, M. A., Lakiang, T., Lewis, M. G. G., Lewis, L., & Nair, N. S. (2018).
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Tolhurst, P., Lindberg, R., Calder, R., & de Courten, M. (2016). Australia's Health Tracker 2016:
A report card on preventable chronic diseases, conditions and their risk factors: Tracking
progress for a healthier Australia by 2025.
Trottier, S. (2017). Dairy and Exercise as a Novel Treatment Strategy for Obesity.