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Refers to a large group of diseases that are characterised by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells.
What is cancer?
Refers to chest pain that occurs when the heart has an insufficient supply of oxygenated blood.
What is angina pectoris?
Are unfair differences in levels of health status between groups in a society.
What are inequities?
Refers to damage to, or disease of, the heart, arteries, veins and/or smaller blood vessels.
What is cardiovascular disease?
A primary health care service initiated and operated by the local Aboriginal community to deliver holistic, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate health care to the community which controls it, through a locally elected Board of Management
What is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Care Service?
Are cancer-causing agents such as chemicals, pollutants, radiation, cigarette smoke and alcohol.
What are carcinogens?
Is a thickened area of fatty and fibrous deposits on the inside surface of arteries, resulting in atherosclerosis.
What is atheroma?
Is defined in terms of the lack of ability to perform everyday functions or activities. It refers to limitations in functional abilities.
What is disability?
Is a hormone produced by the pancreas that helps glucose to enter the body cells and be used for energy
What is insulin?
Cancers that develop in the skin or the cells that line or cover internal organs
What are carcinomas?
Are secondary or new tumours, which may develop some distance from the original malignant tumour.
What are metastases?
Is the build-up of fatty and/or fibrous material on the interior walls of arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
Is a condition characterised by a significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity.
What is dementia?
Is the result of reduced blood flow to the legs and feet, usually due to atherosclerosis and/or arteriosclerosis.
What is peripheral-vascular disease?
A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
What is an electrocardiogram?
Is a swelling or enlargement caused by a clump of abnormal cells.
What is a tumour?
The thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, occurring typically in old age.
What is arteriosclerosis?
Is a person who, through family relationship or friendship, looks after an older person or someone with a disability or chronic illness.
What is a carer?
Is a condition affecting the body’s ability to take glucose from the bloodstream to use it for energy.
What is diabetes mellitus?
Is a cancer of the body cells that contain pigment (melanin) and mainly affects the skin.
What is a malignant melanoma?
Is a process of using a special x-ray of glands, fat and blood vessels under the skin of the breast to identify any variations from the normal or healthy tissue.
What is mammographic screening (mammogram)?
Is the formation of an obstructing clot within a coronary artery that is narrowed by atherosclerosis, possibly leading to a heart attack.
What is coronary thrombosis?
Is a person who offers to perform a service for the community without being remunerated
What is an informal volunteer?
Is a surface skin cancer that originates from the cells that underlie the surface cells. It is the most common type of skin cancer.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
Is the ballooning of the arterial wall due to thinning and weakening. It often results from constant high blood pressure and can lead to a stroke
What is an aneurysm?