Health Screening/Interventions for Age Group 25-44 Years
The commonest causes of mortality among different age groups are different. For example for 15 to 24 years and 25 to 44 years the commonest cause of mortality is accident, whereas for higher age groups it is generally malignancy and/or heart disease. The screening or health intervention should also be based on the most common causes of mortality among different age group population.
The leading causes of mortality (from commonest to less common) among age group of 25 to 44 years are:
- Accident, different motor vehicle accidents and other accidents (e.g. industrial accidents).
- Malignancy
- Heart diseases.
- Suicide.
- Homicide
- Infection such as HIV
The different screening/interventions that may be done to prevent and/or reduce the leading causes of age specific mortality for age group of 25 to 44 years include:
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Health Screening/Interventions for Age Group 15 to 24 Years
Different age group has different leading causes of age specific mortality. To reduce and/or prevent mortality among different age groups interventions and screening should be considered. The number one leading cause of death in one age group may not be the leading cause of mortality among other age groups and therefore the health screening are also different in different age groups. For age group 15-24 years the leading causes of mortality (number 1 is commonest and number 2 is next common cause of mortality) are:
- Accidents, most commonly road traffic accidents (RTAs).
- Homicide
- Suicide
- Malignancy
- Heart disease
Different screening/interventions can be done to prevent and/or reduce the leading causes of age specific mortality. Different age groups have different screening methods (for health interventions), which are in use, because different age groups have different leading causes of mortality and morbidity. There are different options available for prevention/reduction of age specific mortality and t hey include:
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Few Aspects about Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy (also known as physical therapy) is a type of treatment/management for various medical disorders when a patient may find it difficult to do his/her day to day activities comfortably. Physical therapy mainly helps in impairment and disabilities and also in promotion of mobility (for patients such as after fracture), improve functional ability etc. Physiotherapy is performed by physiotherapist (also known as physical therapist in some countries) and their assistants known as physical therapy assistants. Physiotherapists perform thorough physical examination, evaluate the results of physical examination and come to a diagnosis for physical intervention for management/treatment of medical problem.
Physical therapy is commonly used for speedy (and if possible complete) recovery or for improvement of functional ability from certain chronic diseases such as back pain, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, tendon and ligament problems, spinal stenosis and many more. Physiotherapy is also required for speedy recovery from sports injury by sportspersons and is used by sportspersons.
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World Health Day 2012: Aging and Health
Every year World Health Day is celebrated on 7th April. This is to mark the foundation day anniversary of WHO (World Health Organization) in 1948. More than six decades have passed since the foundation of WHO and it has achieved many milestones, but many things are yet to be done in the field of world health for improving of health status of global population.
Each WHO select a theme for World Health Day which highlight the priority area of WHO and this years (2012) theme is: Aging and health: good health adds life to years. With this year’s theme, world leaders and general public can take collective action on important health issues of the aging population, which is a concern for whole world as the number of aging population is increasing every year (due to improved health status and improved life expectancy). Life expectancy is going up and birth rate is falling, which is causing addition of more and more aged persons every year (throughout the world) and in some countries aged population becomes more than half of population of whole nation.
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Causes of Excess Hair Loss or Alopecia
Alopecia is hair loss from body or head. Growth of hairs occurs from hair follicle, which occurs in cycles. Hair growth cycle consists of anagen (long growing phase), catagen (transitional phase, which is short) and telogen (a short resting phase). At the end of telogen the hair falls out and new hair starts growing from the hair follicle and the cycle is repeated.
In a normal human (men as well as women) approximately 100 hairs fall out every day, i.e. 100 hairs reach telogen phase daily and after a short resting period falls off. If more than 100 hairs fall out every day in an individual, it is called clinical hair loss or telogen effluvium. If there is any disruption or shortening of anagen phase (long growing phase), it leads to excess loss of hairs (as hairs complete long anagen phase in shorter time period and lead to more hair loss) and is known as anagen effluvium.
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Know About In-vitro Fertilization
In-vitro fertilization or IVF is a procedure where egg cells (usually from a donor woman) are fertilized by sperm (from a donor man) outside living being (human body in this case). In-vitro fertilization is commonly used for treatment of fertility (female infertility as well as male infertility), especially when assisted reproductive technology have failed for conceiving for a couple. The babies born after in-vitro fertilization are commonly called “test tube babies”, because the fertilization of ovum with sperm takes place in fluid medium (commonly in a test tube of a laboratory), instead of mother’s uterus as that occurring in natural process.
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