Youth Health Action Priority Areas
Rates of smoking amongst young people are extremely low. Only 5% are current smokers.
What are the current rates of young people that smoke?
Location, knowledge, cost, socioeconomic status, stigma and living in a rural and remote area.
What are factors that influence whether a young person will access healthcare?
Young people refusing to seek help due to worries of stigma, embarrassment, poor health literacy, issues of confidentiality and trust.
What are some concerns of health promotion programs?
Covers phobias, panic disorder and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD).
What is is anxiety?
An example is the cost of a doctor's consultation.
What is an example of an direct cost for the individual?
This is when a person or group of people is treated differently based on one of their characteristics such as their gender, culture or sexual preference.
What is discrimination?
Any non-profit voluntary citizens' group which is organised on a local, national or international level. These programs are task-driven by people with a common interest.
What is the definition of Non-Government Programs?
Developed to help young people develop good relationships with their family, peers and local community.
Why are health promotion programs developed?
More than feeling sad, a debilitating condition in which the feelings of sadness or worthlessness continue for an extended period.
What is depression?
Lost productivity for businesses.
What is an example of an indirect cost for the community?
40% of secondary students had never had alcohol.
What percentage of secondary students have never had alcohol?
This program is committed to increasing awareness about the dangers of harmful drinking, including risks to health and wellbeing such as increased violence.
What is the Coward Punch Program?
They should be strength-based, effective, respectful and confidential ans accessible to all people.
Increased heart rate, nausea, difficulty falling or staying asleep, low energy and exhaustion.
How does anxiety impact on physical health and wellbeing?
Emotional impacts on family and friends
What is an example of an intangible cost for the community?
Injury (15- 24 years)
What is the leading cause of death for young people?
This program is designed to inform parents of the risks young drivers' face and provide them with a range of strategies to improve their children's safety.
What is the Safer P-Platers program?
Something that increases the likelihood of developing a mental disorder.
What is a risk factor?
How does anxiety and depression impact on mental health and wellbeing?
Associated with diagnosing, treating or preventing a condition.
What is the definition of direct costs?
Short term - Violent behaviour, delusions
Long-term - Internal organ damage, brain damage and depression
What are the short and long-term effects of illicit drug use?
This level of the Government has the primary responsibility for public hospitals and community and public health, ambulance, public dental services and mental health and wellbeing programs.
What is the Victorian Government responsible for?
Something that decreases the likelihood of developing a mental disorder.
What is a protective factor?
It can make you feel unable to feel satisfaction or hope, unable to control sadness, pessimism or unable to feel happy.
How can anxiety and depression impact on emotional health and wellbeing?
Not directly related to diagnosis or treatment, but occur as a result of a condition.
What is the definition of indirect costs?