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Abstract

This paper attempts to shed light on the various factors that affect human health, especially among older patients. The paper uses a case of Mrs. Perez, an elderly woman who suffers from asthma. This study has identified old age and her ailing lungs as the two biophysical factors influencing her illness, loneliness and depressed lifestyle as the psychological factors for her illness, a physical environment which is relatively cold, lack of an income generating activity as the social-cultural factor to her illness, heavy smoking as a behavioral factor leading to illness, and a health system that is not supportive of patients under drugs. The paper also delves into preventive strategies, primary, secondary and tertiary. Further, the paper lays down several activities to be adopted for the promotion of health. Finally, this paper defines effective healthcare and the criteria for achieving the verdict of whether or not the healthcare was effective.

Community Health Factors

Recent epidemiology research has suggested that medics adopt a broader outlook in investigating the likely cause of illnesses (Stewart & Wild, 2017). As such I would categorize probable causes of illness being experienced by Mrs. Perez into biophysical, psychological, physical environment, social-cultural, behavioral, and health system categories. Biophysical factors influencing her health includes her old age and ailing lungs. Her lonely lifestyle exposes her to depressions and emotional stress which are likely psychological factors resulting in her condition. Her physical environment is cold due to the fact that there are many cold-related medical conditions. Mrs. Perez is not employed and has no source of income which is a social-cultural factor that could be triggering other psychological conditions responsible for her condition. With regards to behavioral factors, the old lady is a heavy smoker, a factor that could be accelerating her disease. The fact that the health system has done little to help her quit smoking or even put deterrence to her behavior makes her continue smoking and consequently ail more.

Primary preventive strategies involve making her aware of the dangers of heavy smoking, guiding her into quitting smoking and urging her to adopt better social lives such as considering living in a community or with relatives. Secondary strategies would entail follow up by medics on her conditions, assessing the risk she is putting herself in while heavily smoking and constant screening to enhance effective medication. Tertiary strategies would involve getting her into exercises that would improve the capacity of her lungs, making her involved in anti-asthma campaigns which would influence her to gradually quit smoking and get her in a rehabilitative program where she can quit smoking.

To plan for the late fall, I would organize small groups of the elderly wherein each group we would adopt constant screening of diseases for early treatment so as to deter disease progression. Further, we would adopt simple aerobic exercises as constant exercises are effective in boosting body immunity.

The effectiveness of medical care and nursing intervention is based on health statistics that record how effective diseases have been combated (Weaver et al., 2016). I would use the records to determine the rate of disease progressions, ability to contain illnesses and the number of patients effectively healed.

References

Stewart, B. W. K. P., & Wild, C. P. (2017). World cancer report 2014. Health.

Weaver, C. A., Ball, M. J., Kim, G. R., & Kiel, J. M. (2016). Healthcare information management systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing.