Acourding to health care expenditure, heart disease is one of the expensive health condition, costing Australian government 4.5 million dollars in the year 2000 to 2001. The cases of cardiovascular disease become high when people get older , which mean number of Australian with cardiovascular disease might increases in the near future due to the number of the elderly people in Australia. There is no doubt that cardiovascular disease is a big causes of death and the second causes of disease burden compare to other diseases burden. Statistic show that cardiovascular disease is responsible for the 34% of all death in Australia in the year 2007. Statistic show that, cardiovascular disease kills one Australian almost every eleven minutes, affects nearly 3.4 millions of the whole population, prevent 1.4 million Australian population from living a complete life due to disabilities causes by heart diseases, and it take away the lives of nearly 48,500 Australians in the year 2008
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The American Cancer Society states that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. Cigarette smoking is directly responsible for 87% of lung cancer cases in the United States annually. Secondhand smoke, which is the inhalation of smoke from another’s smoking, is a cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers (“Lung Cancer and Smoking Cigarettes”). According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 3,000 adults that do not smoke will die each year from lung cancer due to breathing in secondhand smoke. Smoking cigarettes is by far the main contributor to lung cancer.
Explain the trends over the past ten years in the unemployment rate, the participation rate and wage outcomes with reference to specific industries and gender in the Australian economy. Since 2003 the Australian Labour market has seen unprecedented changes in both its unemployment rate, participation rate and wage outcomes. The changes have been caused by a number of events and advancements, namely the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the change in attitudes towards employment by employers and employees, to name a few. The greatest problem in the labour market in the past 10 years has been the high level of unemployment. Unemployment is defined as when a person is actively searching for unemployment but unable to find work and is
These problems include cough and phlegm production, an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness, an unfavorable lipid profile and potential retardation in the rate of lung growth and the level of maximum lung function. An estimated 440,000 Americans die each year from diseases caused by smoking. These illnesses include Lung Cancer, bronchitis, heart diseases, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), and emphysema. As well as, of course, second hand smoking that presents the threat of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Many experts will also tell you second hand smoking is more dangerous than first hand, because of the unfiltered smoke containing 50 more cancerous substances than filtered cigarette smoke.
Before I talk about the direct policy on smoking, I thought I would share some facts about tobacco. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women in the United States. Smoking-related deaths/health issues effect an estimated four hundred and thirty eight thousand American lives each year. Ninety percent of lung cancer deaths among men and eighty percent of lung cancer deaths among women are attributed to smoking. People who smoke are up to six times more likely to suffer a heart attack than nonsmokers, and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked.
1.0 Introduction Alcoholism is a major social and health condition prevalent in Australia as well as the rest of the world. It causes, illness, disease, violence and death in its victims. The harmful use of alcohol results in approximately 2.5 million deaths each year, a net loss of life of 2.25 million (World Health Organisation, 2011). The case study of Derek Donald is a prime example of what alcoholism can do and the outcome of it. As the social health condition continues to grow so does the cost on the social economy.
Department of health and Ageing 2012). In 2003 tobacco was responsible for more than 1 500 deaths (Australia. Department of health and Ageing 2012) . More than 204 700 years of healthy life was lost in Australia in 2003 (Australia. Department of health and Ageing 2012).
One, a study carried out by University of Hong Kong and the Department of Health that was reported in the South China Morning Post shows that there is a high correlation between level of physical activity in people and in the risk of dying from different diseases such as cancer. According to this study, it clearly shows that deaths resulting from lack of physical exercise are way higher than deaths from smoking. Actually, according to this study about 20% of all deaths among people who are aged thirty five and above are associated with lack of exercise which is evidently higher those deaths of the same group of people from smoking. Particularly looking at cancer, the risk of dying for men is about 45% and 28% for women due to lack of physical exercise from this chronic disease. From this study too, it shows that most of the people being diagnosed with cancer are people who spend a lot of hours watching television, and they are into jobs that require them to sit in the office for long hours a day such as 10 hours with no engagement to physical exercise at all.
One of the most problematic health issues in our country is smoking.. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in America, due to its harmful contents. Although thousands of people die from it each year, it is one of the single, most preventable deaths. If tobacco production were made illegal, an enormous amount of lives would be saved. Currently in our country one in five deaths are caused by a smoking related disease (Tobacco).