Case Study: Analyzing Estella's Lifestyle and Health Challenges

This case study focuses on Estella, a 34-year-old single mother facing significant risks of lifestyle diseases. It explores the impact of daily habits and diet on health, highlighting the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits. The analysis identifies her risk factors, including potential for high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes. The study then provides a comprehensive health promotion plan, emphasizing the need for a balanced diet, regular physical activity, and health education. Nursing interventions are outlined to manage and prevent lifestyle diseases through screening, dietary support, and community health programs. The case study also addresses the importance of social, financial, and environmental factors in supporting a healthy lifestyle, with recommendations for setting achievable health goals and evaluating progress. The conclusion emphasizes the need for a multi-faceted approach to address both modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, and offers strategies for effective disease management and prevention.

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Case Study: Estella
Introduction
Daily routine and habits of human being pose significant impacts on control and
management of lifestyle ailments like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic diseases and
cancer. In other words, day to day sedentary routine that devaluate the significance of physical
exercise and dietary plan; cause a great deal of chronic non-communicable ailments associated
with life-threatening lifestyle disorders (Tabish, 2017). That being so, this case analysis paper
delignates Estella’s situation according to the case scenarios. Besides, the paper gives numerous
clinical directives and health perspectives for the patients’ health promotion as well as lifestyle
diseases prevention with rationale.
Statement
Principally, lifestyle disorders cause about seventy per cent of deaths occurring around
the globe. Even though lifestyle disorders are chronic ailments that cannot be transferred from
one person to another. That is to say, non-communicable diseases are heavily linked to a
combination of health aspects like physiology, genetics, habits and environment (Tabish, 2017).
As a consequence, the fundamental ways of promoting, Estella's health against chronic lifestyle
diseases involve positive behavioural, environmental and lifestyle change. On the other hand, the
prevention of diseases described in the scenario necessitate lifestyle as well as diet change. For
this case, the patient, Estella need to take healthy diet proposed by nutritionist and involve
herself in physical activities.
Meanwhile, Estella pose a high risk of developing high blood pressure, obesity, heart
failure and diabetes. Accordingly, she needs to undertake intense and frequent physical

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exercises; either monitored or unmonitored to control her weight and enhance her energy. Into
the bargain, physical exercises lessen the progress of heart diseases as well as blood pressure
disorders. Also, physical exercises, in combination with the administration of insulin, reduce the
blood sugar level and prevent the development of diabetes. Undeniably, professional dietary
guidelines can aid the patients described in the case scenario lead to a healthy lifestyle.
Primarily, a good diet in conjunction with healthy physical activities help develop and maintain a
healthy weight, lessen the risk factors of lifestyle disorders and enhance the overall health of the
patients. As a matter of fact, the case study represents a family depending on fast food which
contains unsaturated fats like cholesterol. Take the scenario, for instance, Estella and her family
need to replace foods containing saturated fats like cheese with foods containing unsaturated fats
and omega-3 fatty acids.
Also, Estella needs to maintain frequent consumption of fruits, vegetables, fruit juices,
whole-grain cereal products in place of cheap carbohydrates and potatoes. Lastly, Estella needs
to limit consumption of sugar. That is, the patient needs to limit the consumption of fast foods
and bread that are sugary. Sugary substances pose zero nutritional value except for foe calories,
hence provide high risk of overweight.
Notably, the need posed by Estella's situation implies a comprehensive scheme to
promote her health and prevent lifestyle disorder. A comprehensive scheme encompasses every
aspect of life such as finance, education, health and planning. Indeed, the aspect of life
mentioned above poses a direct impact on the choice of lifestyle and habits as well as dietary
plan. For example, educational levels and finances determine the diet of a patient as well as the
frequency of health check-up. Health and planning ensure effective medical management as well
as exercise management.

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Goals
Health promotion entails procedures that help people to improve and manage their health
effectively. To attain the physical, mental and social wellbeing, Estella should identify
operational goals that could satisfy her health needs. In fact, the development of these goals
depends on the resources, education, food and peace of the patient (Tabish, 2017). Ideally, the
patients described in the case scenario should develop the following goals. Firstly, achieve a
healthy life and wellbeing, free from lifestyle disorders like diabetes, high blood pressure,
obesity and heart failure disorders. Secondly, maintain a healthy diet with insignificant
consumption of fast food. Thirdly, acquire health education to eliminate unhealthy behaviours
with high disease risk factors. Moreover, establish social, financial and physical conditions and
environments that enhance healthy life aspects. As well as acquire appropriate change to weight,
increase duration, frequency and degrees of physical activities in addition to the change of
mental health (Chanda et al. 2019).
Nursing Interventions
Remarkably, nursing intervention dictates the management of lifestyle disorders as
depicted by goals aforementioned above. First, to achieve a healthy life and wellbeing, Estella
needs appropriate diagnosis, screening and medication of the developing disorders. Screening aid
the patient maintains appropriate systolic and diastolic values as wells keeping track of the
weight and blood sugar level. Second, maintaining a healthy diet necessitate palliative nursing
care. Third, health education necessitates nursing intervention such as community health
programs that teach community members about lifestyle diseases causes, prevention, control and
management (Chanda et al. 2019). Furthermore, nursing disciplines need to encourage their
clients and patients to develop social, financial and physical conditions and environments that

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enhance healthy life aspects. Last, nursing disciplines need to encourage patients to undertake
proper meals and involve in healthy physical exercise that improves general health.
Evaluation
Careful assessment of the case scenario of Estella, who is thirty-four years old and single
mother of three depict high risk for lifestyle diseases. Indeed, the risk factors presented by the
scenario are modifiable and non-modifiable. Modifiable risk factors involve unhealthy diet,
inactivity and overweight, high blood as well as physical and psychological stress. Non-
modifiable risk factors involve family history and gender. Accordingly, proper medication and
disorder management plan can help moderate Estella issues (Entezari, 2015).

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References
Chanda, S., Tiwari, R. K., Kumar, A., & Singh, K. (2019). Nutraceuticals inspiring the current
therapy for lifestyle diseases. Advances in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, 2019.
Entezari, M. (2015). The effectiveness of treatment based on “Choice Theory” on improving the
lifestyle of women suffered from obesity. Journal of Health Promotion
Management, 4(2), 1-6.
Tabish, S. A. (2017). Lifestyle diseases: consequences, characteristics, causes and
control. Journal of Cardiology & Current Research, 9(3), 1-4.