Health Then and Now

Problem with this is that it may not be able to be fixed. When infectious diseases were the leading causes of death, health care was more of a mechanistic model. 2. Mechanistic means that you basically live your life until something goes wrong and then go see a doctor and get it fixed. Problem with this is that it may not be able to be fixed.

Now that the leading causes of death are lifestyle diseases, a preventative model is more critical. 2. Refers to measures taken to prevent diseases/injuries rather than curing them or treating symptoms. This suggests that health is a culmination of your lifestyle choices, making choices to prevent you from getting sick.

3. In the 1800s and early 1900s infectious (communicable) diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, and diphtheria were the leading causes of death. In the 20th century these have been replaced with lifestyle diseases; accidents, suicide, heart disease, cancer (malignant neoplasms), and stroke.

4. what do you think is the leading cause of death among teenagers? Sooo…knowing our lifestyle has a big influence on our health, 4. what do you think is the leading cause of death among teenagers?

a. Motor Vehicle Accidents MAKE UP 67% OF ALL DEATHS AGES 15-19 In 2009, more than 3,000 teens in the United States aged 15–19 were killed and  more than 350,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor-vehicle crashes.1,2

TEEN DRIVER FACTS: CDC Newly licensed teens, teens driving with passengers, and male teenagers have the highest risks for motor vehicle accidents. Males are 2x’s more likely than females to be involved in a crash. In 2010, 22% of teen drivers involved in fatal motor vehicle crashes were drinking. Teens have the lowest rate of seatbelt use. Teen drivers are 3x’s more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash.

The factor that contributes most often to automobile accidents is… Distracted Driving

A GROWING PROBLEM is TEXTING AND DRIVING 40% OF ALL AMERICAN TEENS SAY THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE CAR WHEN THE DRIVER USED A CELL PHONE IN A WAY THAT PUT PEOPLE IN DANGER. DRIVERS THAT USE HAND-HELD DEVICES ARE 4X MORE LIKELY TO GET INTO A SERIOUS CRASH. Video/2:54

TEXT MESSAGING CREATES A CRASH RISK 23x’s WORSE THAN DRIVING WHILE NOT DISTRACTED. SENDING OR RECEIVING A TEXT TAKES A DRIVER’S EYES AWAY FROM THE ROAD FOR AN AVERAGE OF 4.6 SECONDS = AT 55 MPH, IS DRIVING THE LENGTH OF AN ENTIRE FOOTBALL FIELD BLIND.

Other factors that should be avoided are speeding, aggressiveness and impaired driving

b. Homicide Makes up 17% of all deaths ages 15-19 Video/2:38 Although other teens are responsible for many of the homicides of teens below age 18, 2/3’s of the murderers are 18 or older.   Gang involvement has been associated with many teen murders

c. Suicide Makes up 15% of all deaths ages 15-19 Video/3:02 In 2009, 1,928 children and teens between the ages of 10 and 19 committed suicide in the U.S. Teenage boys were four times as likely as teenage girls to die by suicide. Boys were also more likely to use guns and suffocation to kill themselves. Girls were more likely than boys to use pills.

d. Malignant Neoplasms (cancer) Make up 6% of all deaths ages 15-19 Malignant neoplasm implies a lesion that can invade and destroy the adjacent tissues and spread to the distant sites(Metastasize) and cause death, Malignant tumors are also called CANCER

e. Heart Disease Makes up 3% of all deaths ages 15-19 Most of the risk factors that affect children can be controlled early in life. Other risk factors are usually passed down through family members or they are the result of another illness or disease. These risk factors usually can be controlled. Congenital heart disease (heart defects you are born with) cannot be changed, but better tests and treatments are now available for children with these types of heart problems.

motor vehicle accidents CDC 2009 While unintentional injury is listed as the #1 cause of death with 4,807 deaths, of those deaths 3,242 are from motor vehicle accidents so we consider motor vehicle accidents as the #1 cause of death among 15 – 19 yr. olds.

Soooooo ……what are some types of unintentional injury?

A fatal injury caused by electricity entering the body and destroying vital tissues.

A fatal injury caused by an inability to breathe when the nose and mouth are blocked or when the body becomes oxygen- deficient.

The most common types of unintentional injuries in the workplace are Falls Explosions Toxic hazards Electrocution Fires

How has health care changed in the past 100 years?

Do you want to live forever? Video Quiz/12:20

Born 1896 Born 1875 Born 1897 Mamie Rearden Born 1898 Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia Born 1896 died at the age of 116 Dec. 4, 2012 Only seven other people in history have bested Besse Cooper’s time on this Earth — 116 years and 100 days, according to Guinness. The oldest person ever documented — France’s Jeanne Calment, who passed away in 1997, lived to age of 122. 115-year-old Dina Manfredini of Iowa died Dec. 17, 2012 after being the oldest person in the world for less than 2 weeks. Born 1875 Born 1897 Gerontology Research Group, which verifies age information for Guinness World Records, listed Mamie Rearden as the oldest living American after last month's passing of 115-year-old Dina Manfredini of Iowa. She passed away Jan. 2, 2013 Mamie Rearden Born 1898