What are the action priority areas?

• CVD
• Asthma
• Cancer
• Injurys
• Diabetes
• Mental Health
• Musculoskeleto (artheritis)

Identifying priority areas

• Principles of social justice
• Priority population groups
• Prevalence
• Potential to change
• Costs to the community
• Costs to the individual

What are the groups experiencing inequities?

(SAO WARD)

• socio-economically disadvantaged people
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
• Overseas born Australians
• Women and Men
• Aged
• Rural and Remote
• Disabled

CVD's inclusion in the health priority areas

• Major health and economic burden on Australia
• it is one of the leading causes of sickness and death in Australia (36% of all deaths in 2004)
• males more likely to die from CVD
• potential to change is great as risk factors are mostly modifiable

Nature of CVD:

Define CVD

CVD is a general term covering all diseases of the heart and circulatory system.

Nature of CVD

• Coronary heart disease
• Stroke
• peripheral vascular disease

Nature of CVD

the poor supply of blood to the muscular walls of the heart by its own blood supply vessels, the coronary arteries.

• also called Ischaemic heart disease
• manifests as a heart attack or angina

Nature of CVD

Nature of CVD

Nature of CVD

Nature of CVD

What is Arteriosclerosis?

the hardening of the arteries.

a form of atherosclerosis, the arteries become harder and less elastic

Extent of CVD

Mortality

• Coronary Heart disease is the leading cause of death in both males and females. It accounted for 19.2% of all male deaths and 17.7 of all deaths in females.
•  Stroke is2nd leading cause of death in Australians, accounting for 7.1% of all deaths in males and 11.3% in females

Risk factors of CVD

• family history
• gender: Death rates in men aged up to 50 years is higher than in women.
• advancing age

Risk factors of CVD

• smoking- Doubles the risk.
• raised blood fat levels
• High blood pressure
• obesity and overweight
• abdominal obesity
• physical inactivity

• Tobacco Smokers
• people with family history of the disease
• people with high blood pressure (hypertension)
• people with high fat diet
• people aged over 65 years
• males
• "blue collar" workers (labourers and trades people)

Injury's inclusion in the NHPAs

• it affects all age groups and is often preventable
• places an economic, social and physical burden on the individual and the community
• consequences can be short or long term.

• transport related
• suicide and self-inflicted
• interpersonal violence
• residential injuries as a result of falls, drownings, poisoning, burns and scalds
• industry-related
• consumer product
• sport and recreation-related

• accounting for 6 % of all deaths in 2004
• leading cause of death in males and females aged 1-44 years (47% for this age group)
• main cause of premature deaths
• major cause of hospital admissions
• predominantly affects males. Male mortality rates more than double females.
• Unintentional death rates decreasing, but intentional increasing

• being over 45 with high blood pressure
• being over 45 and overweight
• being over 45 and having family history
• being over 55
• having had a heart attack
• being over 35 and ATSI

• colds and flus
• tobacco smoke
• inhaled allergens
• air pollution
• strong odours and scnets
• cold air or changes in temperature
• drugs such as aspirin

Social determinants of health

(SEEEGAL)

• social and economic factors
• education
• employment
• ethnicity
• gender
• age
• location