Family Lifestyle is an Important Determinant of Family Health

The health of a family is a vital part of how that family interacts with one another and how each individual of the family will function in society, later teaching their children about a healthy lifestyle or lack thereof. The family health assessment helps to identify risk factors and potential dysfunction (Edelman, 2014) I interviewed a single parent family home about their health and how they perceive it. This family is an all-male family, an athletic seventeen year old boy getting ready for his senior year, a twenty year old young man, and a hardworking, dedicated, overweight father.

The smoking habit is the principal cause of illness, disability and death around the world. More than five million of people in the world die due to smoking habit every year. If we don’t take care of this in 2030 the amount will be ten million. Seven million of these deaths would be in poor countries.

Regardless of consumer belief, smoking dramatically increases the chances of contracting many diseases - such as heart disease or high blood pressure. Although not every user experiences these diseases, it is well known that smoking can decrease one’s life time dramatically. The information given states, “It’s virtually impossible to escape the effects of tobacco” (Jordan). This stated, Jordan expresses that essentially if you use tobacco, there is a fairly high chance that one will damage his/her body in some way. Furthermore, there are many more diseases that can be contracted and the ones stated are only the most common. Continuing, the author explains the affects of smoking, “Expose to specific elements of secondhand smoke causes blood clot more easily and damages arterial lining” (Jordan). As stated, certain components in tobacco increase the chances of high blood pressure and blood clots to form in the body. Concluding, respiratory problems in young children can occur through second hand smoking, these include asthma. Children that asthma effect increases from smoke, “Asthma turns out to be about twice as common in children exposed to high levels of second hand smoke” (Secondhand Smoke: Is it a Hazard). Not only does tobacco smoke increase other diseases, it also increases the severity of diseases already contracted as shown in the previous quote. To conclude, tobacco smoke

Smoking can bring about lung infection by harming your airways routes and the little air sacs (alveoli) found in your lungs. Smoking can bring about lethal infections, for example, pneumonia, lung growth and emphysema. Additionally smoking causes 83% of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and smoking causes 84% of deaths from lung cancer (NHS , 2017) . However, there is a considerable measure of terrible illnesses connected to smoking cigarettes. Illnesses like throat malignancy, mouth tumour, bladder growth, lung growth, constant bronchitis, emphysema, and coronary illness are altogether brought about by smoking. Also smoking is addictive. Nicotine is the addictive substance

The content of this paper is to thoroughly analyze the relationships and functionality of the family chosen to be studied and assessed. By assessing, incorporating the lessons taught throughout the past five weeks in this class and inter-relating the family’s sociocultural background, communication patterns, physical environment setting, values and beliefs, power and role structure, communication patterns, adaptation and level of development as well as their

Cigarette smoke has extreme health consequences. It has been found that for both sexes, smoking increases the risk of dying from heart disease and from all causes; and for women, it increases the likelihood of dying from lung cancer (Bjartveit and Tverdal 2005). Cigarette smoking habits also

One of America’s leading cause of death is smoking. Smoking has been around for years and doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. The effects of smoking harms about every organ in the body, for example: the heart, blood vessels, lungs, eyes, mouth, reproductive organs, bones, bladder, and digestive organs. Smokers use that “it’s my body, I do what I want,” The problem with that is smoking doesn’t just affect the person doing it. It harms other people in the ways; it’s called 2nd hand smoking. People who receive second hand smoking are possible to get a disease as a person who smokes regularly. It might not be as serve but will still be not good. Most people are trying to quit but aren’t trying hard enough without motivation. Smoking is one of the most common causes of death however quitting now will decrease your chances of disease and death.

The Family I assessed was the L family. They live in a beautiful 2 story brick home. The home had tons of space and was well taken care of. The family had three strengths that stuck out the most to me which are, 1.) The family’s bond was very strong. They do many activities together, like making sure they eat dinner together every night. 2.) The family does a good job with health management by going to their annual checkups.

Indoors children who just learnt how to walk often lose their balance and hurt themselves or others around them. An example of this could be a child has spotted a toy that they like very much and in attempt to walking fast to grab it they trip and fall, biting their lip on their way down causing it to bleed. Then it is my job to attend to the child, pick them up and take them to the toilet where all the recourses that I will need to treat this injury will be. I then put on some gloves to keep both the child and I safe from any

Have you ever been around someone who smokes cigarettes? Not only does it affect them but it also affects non-smokers, your pets, or your children. As with many people who smoke, they don’t seem to realize that secondhand smoke does harm too.

Smoking can lead to health problems that can destroy the consumers future. Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. each year. For example, "Smoking has killed more people in the U.S. alone than the number of Americans killed in battle or who died of war related diseases in all wars ever fought by this nation. The total number of U.S. deaths in the Vietnam War was 58,151,¨(¨Other Health Dangers¨). Smoking has many different chemicals that are harmful to the body. Some of the problems that are caused by smoking are lung cancer, cancers of the mouth, larynx (throat), esophagus, bladder, kidney, cervix, and blood (leukemia). These can all be caused by smoking and then there will be a greater risk of getting these

Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. Nicotine addiction is a serious and expensive problem. Smokers have decreased productivity and on average make less than non-smokers. Smoking is lethal to the human body through heart disease, respiratory illness, and increased likelihood and mortality of cancer.

Gordon’s health patterns are family assessment information’s emphasis on developmental phases and the risk factors affected in the family’s health. This is an important tool for nurses to assess and evaluate the family’s traditional health patterns. The family I selected is an Asian Indian family. This paper is going to discuss about health patterns of Mr. Raju Fernandez family. Raju is 37-year-old port polio manager working in a financial company and his wife is Mary also

danger, risk, and potential severity), caregivers must assume the role of actively implementing precautions to prevent injuries. Although there has been research devoted to understanding parental safety precautions to children 2 years and older, and there is literature to suggest that parental supervision is an important determinant for childhood injury (Morrongiello, Corbett, & Brison, 2009; Porter et al., 2007), there is virtually nothing known about the nature and scope of parental supervision infants receive in the home, and surprisingly little is known about the nature of injury-risk behaviours, during infancy and how parents become alert to these. Indeed, previous research has identified peaks in different types of injuries that occur in synchrony with the acquisition of motor skills (Agran et al., 2003), however how parents respond and adjust to ongoing changes in infant’s abilities has been overlooked in the supervision literature. This is surprising given the fact that this developmental time period can be especially challenging for parents; not only must caregivers be able to accurately predict their children’s next behavioural milestone; they must also take into account the individual variabilities of when certain capabilities may emerge and adjust safety precautions accordingly. Infancy is a unique developmental period therefore, given that someone is always providing direct care and can be thought of the responsible authority associated with the injury event. Hence, this study was important not only for examining how caregiver supervision practices change as infants gain greater mobility, but to explore whether child characteristics (e.g., developmental level) and parent characteristics (e.g., supervision practices) interact synergistically with infant’s risk behaviours and injury outcomes. Given that

The patterns of coping as stress tolerance describe the family’s ability to manage stress effectively in life. The main stressful issue was their opposite work schedule. The mother stated that she was not getting enough sleep, especially when the children get sick. They both have to work to pay off their bills, and for their children’s future education. Both parents speak with each other and take mutual decisions in stressful times. Along with this, they find stress relief in prayer and speaking with intimate friends. The pattern of family values and beliefs reflects on their own values, life meaning, and spiritual life. Even though they follow Indian cultures and traditions, they adopt some of the western lifestyle too. They maintain good family values, such as respect for one another, understanding, flexibility, support, and spending time together.