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Instructor’s Name Semester, 200_

Learn about the importance of community health workers being aware of the health concerns of different age groups in the United States. Understand the demographic characteristics, risk behaviors, health profiles, and strategies for improving the health status of adolescents, young adults, and adults.

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Instructor’s Name Semester, 200_

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  1. Instructor’s Name Semester, 200_

  2. Chapter Objectives • Explain why it is important for community health workers to be aware of the different health concerns of the various age groups in the United States. • Define by age the groups of adolescents and young adults, and adults. • Briefly describe key demographic characteristics of adolescents and young adults.

  3. Chapter Objectives • Explain what the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS), and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) are and what type of data they generate. • Provide a brief behavioral risk profile for adolescents, college students, and adults.

  4. Chapter Objectives • Outline the health profiles for the various age groups-adolescents and young adults, and adults-listing major causes of mortality, morbidity, and risk factors for each group. • Give examples of community health strategies for improving the health status of adolescents and young adults, and adults.

  5. Introduction • Understanding age group Health Risks and Problems • Detect risks for specific target populations • Propose specific reduction programs

  6. Adolescents and Young Adults • Fall into the 15- to 24-year-old range • Baby Echo • offspring of the baby boom generation • Critical time period • faces physical, emotional, and educational changes

  7. Demography • The Number of Adolescents and Young Adults • Living Arrangements • Employment Status

  8. Young Adult Population

  9. Employment Status • Proportion of overall labor force has remained constant since 1980’s • Unemployment rates vary significantly by race and ethnicity • Access to health care affected by employment status

  10. Health ProfileAdolescents and Young Adults • Mortality • Medical advances have reduced death rate dramatically • Physical threat comes primarily from behavioral activities • Causes • Motor vehicle crashes • Other unintentional injuries • Homicides • Suicides

  11. Major causes of mortality (15- 24)

  12. Teen Suicide Rates (YRBS, 1999)

  13. Health ProfileAdolescents and Young Adults • Morbidity • Measles • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  14. Causes of Morbidity • Communicable diseases • measles • sexually transmitted diseases

  15. Health Behaviors and Lifestyle Choices of High School Students • Behaviors that contribute to Unintentional Injury • Behaviors that contribute to Intentional Injury • Tobacco Use • Increased use of smokeless tobacco among teenage males • Alcohol and Other Drugs • Sexual Behavior

  16. Health Behaviors and Lifestyle Choices of College Students • Behaviors that contribute to Unintentional Injuries • Behaviors that contribute to Intentional Injuries • Tobacco Use • Alcohol and Other Drugs • Sexual Behavior

  17. Percentage of High School Students Who Reported Sexual Risk Behaviors

  18. Strategies for Improving the Health of Adolescents and Young Adults • Community Based • Involving stakeholders • Comprehensive • Collaborative • Multifaceted

  19. Health ProfileAdults • 25 to 64 years old • Represents about half the U.S. Population

  20. Health ProfileAdults • Mortality • Overall death rate improving • Improved health behavior and lifestyles • Cancer • Cardiovascular Disease • Chronic Disease

  21. Death Rates (24 - 44 yr.; per 100,000 pop)

  22. Death Rates (45 - 64 yr.; per 100,000 pop)

  23. Health ProfileAdults • Health Behaviors and Lifestyle Choices • Smoking • Responsible for one in every six deaths • Lack of Exercise • Alcohol Consumption • Weight

  24. Risk Factors for Chronic Disease • Smoking • Lack of exercise • Alcohol consumption • Body weight

  25. Risk Factors for Personal Injury • Safety belt use • Drinking and driving

  26. Awareness and Screening • Hypertension • Diabetes • Cholesterol

  27. Strategies for Improving the Health of Adults • Primary Prevention programs • Exercise • Nutrition • Secondary Prevention • Clinical Screening • Tertiary Prevention • Medication Compliance

  28. Chapter 8 Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults

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