Health Promotion: Adolescent Lifespan Health Issues and Interventions

This report delves into health promotion strategies for adolescents, focusing on the critical period of their lifespan and the impact of puberty. It examines the developmental stages, emphasizing the experiences during this time and their effects on health. The report identifies common health issues, including mental health concerns such as depression and the impact of interpersonal violence. Furthermore, it explores how cultural and natural factors influence these health challenges. The assignment then proposes various intervention ideas, such as health promotion messages, resilience-building techniques, and mental health services, to address and mitigate these issues effectively. The conclusion reiterates the importance of understanding the adolescent lifespan for effective health interventions.

Health promotion through Lifespan

TABLE OF CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 MAIN BODY
1. Discuss about the lifespan stage of adolescents and puberty, focused on the experience
during time and impact on health.
2. Discuss about the health issues which are typically occurs during stage of lifespan.
3. Describe three different health issues and describe nature, culture that impact on human.
4. Understand the simple intervention idea which help to address health issues.
 CONCLUSION
 REFERNCES

INTRODUCTION
 The documentation will describe about the lifespan stage of adolescents and also
concerned about the experience during time which may impact on health. It will describe
about the health issues which are typically happens during different stage of lifespan.
Furthermore, there are different type of health issues which describe culture, nature that
directly impact on the human body condition. Furthermore, it will identify simple
intervention idea to address multiple health issues.

Discuss about the lifespan stage of adolescents and puberty,
focused on the experience during time and impact on health.
 Adolescence refers to the stage of human growth and development where they exist between
childhood and adulthood. It begin at around age of 10 and end age of 21. Sometimes, it can be
broken into different phases such as early, middle and late. Each and every phases have their own
characteristics.
 During this period, there are lot of changes occurs in body when children move towards young
where they always relates to entire world. It is the most important lifespan stage where children
learn about new thing, often to grow more quickly (King, Graber and Gotlib, 2020). The body
changes and inspire curiosity as well as anxiety. Especially when they don’t know what to expect
and what is normal.

Cont.
 As per experiencing, the brain continues to change and mature in this phase but there are
still lot of difference in their normal life. They are thinking in different ways to compare
with adults (Sommer, Daly and Chandra-Mouli, V., 2020). The frontal lobes is the last
area of brain to mature their mind level. Sometimes, development is not completely
occurs until a person is not well in proper manner. At that time Frontal lobes plays
important role in term of coordination as well as complex decision making.

Cont.
 In this stage, Puberty is made up of sequence of stage which directly effects on the health
such as skeletal, reproductive and muscular. It also occurred physical changes during
puberty which tends to be more gradual. On the other hand, many child seen unusually
tall, short relatives to his friends that have similar age. This type of disorder seen in many
children’s.

Lifespan stage

Discuss about the health issues which are typically occurs during
stage of lifespan.
 Nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies
 Obesity
 Physical activity

Describe three different health issues and describe nature, culture
that impact on human.
 Mental Health: Depression is one of most common diseases and causes of illness,
disability among various adolescents. Many children attempt to suicide, it is another
leading cause of death. During adolescent stage, it is building the skill that provide them
with psychological support in community. In this way, they can improve their mental
health condition and situation in proper manner.

Cont.
 Interpersonal Violence: it is another cause of death in adolescents, globally through
prominence varies in substantially in global world. Between aged 15 to 19 years, it has
been victim of physical, sexual as well as emotional violence (Sommer, Daly and
Chandra-Mouli, V., 2020). In this way, it directly impact on the culture and society so as
parents need to aware about the condition and support their children’s.

Understand the simple intervention idea which help to address
health issues.
 Health promotion: It is starting the health promotion message and develop awareness
among people those suffering from health issues during stage of adolescent (Sommer, Daly
and Chandra-Mouli, V., 2020). It is one of most common approach to health promotion for
adolescent.
 Resilience: it is recognizing that adolescent often communicate and engage with
community, parents in order to identify social circumstances. In this way, it helps for
protecting behavior risk within children’s. It is likely to generate positive result or outcome.

Cont.
 Reduce mental issues: the intervention on emotional well-being that support entire school
children, it become more effective at minimizing smoking problem by using smoking
programmes.
 If children is depressed which make appointment with counselor so that they can identify
mind condition of local children and provide the adolescent mental health service by
specialist.