Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Associated Risks in Australia

This report provides an overview of the growing prevalence of chronic diseases in Australia, highlighting the significant impact on the population's health and well-being. It notes that nearly half of Australians suffer from chronic illnesses, with a notable increase in recent years, particularly among women. Cardiovascular problems, cancer, and asthma are identified as major contributors to mortality and morbidity. The report explores the risk factors associated with these diseases, including lifestyle changes such as poor diets, lack of physical exercise, and tobacco use. Utilizing the PICO framework, the report formulates a research question to examine the prevalence and risks of chronic diseases, suggesting interventions like surgery, physical therapy, and medication, and comparing them with strategies such as addressing social inequality and improving lifestyle choices. The desired outcome is a reduction in the number of individuals affected by chronic diseases, ultimately improving public health. The report references articles that emphasize the need for cooperative efforts, resource allocation, and lifestyle changes to mitigate the growth of chronic diseases in Australia. Desklib provides solved assignments and study resources for students.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ORIGINAL POST...........................................................................................................................3
Summary of growing chronic diseases in Australia....................................................................3
Research question through making use PICO framework...........................................................3
Article..........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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ORIGINAL POST
Summary of growing chronic diseases in Australia
In Australia, there has been numerous people that are suffering from chronic illness
despite Australia is one of the health nation. Likewise, there are around 47% of individuals that
are suffering from chronic illness and over the last decade it has increased or grows by 42%.
Furthermore, it has identified that women around 15 and more aged are more prominent to face
chronic issue as compared to male in Australia. Growing chronic diseases is one of primary
concern for Australia now and in future because it has lead in many deaths among both male and
female. Likewise there are 1.1 million people that are suffering from cardiovascular problem,
cancer is second reason for death. Asthma has also affected around 14% of children and 10% of
adults. Thereby there has been tremendous rise or spread of diseases in Australia so necessary
intervention need to be plan for better health and well being of people. The rise in chronic
diseases is because of lifestyles changes such as tobacco, smoking, poor diets and intake of
nutrition, physical exercise and many more (Jaarsm and et.al., 2017.). All the changes in society
and lifestyle of people has lead in affecting health and well-being of themselves such as rapid
growth in chronic diseases among male and female of Australia.
Research question through making use PICO framework
PICO framework is evidence based practice or tool that focus on key elements such as
population, intervention, comparison and outcome in order to plan and implement an particular
strategy that could be used to treat the patient. So it is mainly used to develop literature search
strategies or for systematic review. Thereby it is useful tool to improve specificity and
conceptual clarity of clinical problem.
 Patient or population: All the individuals that are living in Australia are population or
group of individual that has been selected for the study. There are major people in
Australia that are suffering from chronic diseases that have adversely impacted on their
health and well being (Adem Sav and et.al., 2015).
 Intervention: The intervention that could be used to reduce the growth of chronic
disease in Australia is Surgery, physical therapy and radiotherapy and psychological
therapy. Furthermore doing medication is one of the common methods for better
treatment of chronic diseases.
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 Comparison: The above intervention can be compared with other alternative options
such as removing social inequality, improving the lifestyle of people and providing
appropriate treatment and care as they helps in providing better care and treatment to the
patient (Petrie and et.al., 2019).
 Outcome: The outcome of intervention will be that there is less number of population
that are facing from chronic disease in Australia thus it will help in ensuring health and
wellbeing of people.
Research question
 To examine the major prevalence of chronic diseases and its associated risk for Australia
population?
Article
“Burden of treatment for chronic illness: a concept analysis and review of the literature”
and “Coping with chronic illness” are two articles that acts as evidence related to the presence
of chronic diseases in Australia and the way it can be easily overcome. So, as per the article
cooperative efforts, resources, treatment and change in lifestyle of people need to be made in
order to remove the growth of chronic diseases among Australian People.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Jaarsma, T and et.al., 2017. Factors related to self-care in heart failure patients according to the
middle-range theory of self-care of chronic illness: a literature update. Current heart
failure reports, 14(2). 71-77.
Online
Adem Sav and et.al., Burden of treatment for chronic illness: a concept analysis and review of
the literature, 2015, [Online]. Available Through: <
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5060781/>.
Petrie, K. J., and et.al., Coping with chronic illness 2019, [Online]. Available Through: <
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-50182-025>.
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