Adolescent Health Assignment

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by Madelyn Adkins1 view·Updated Nov 13, 2021
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  1. today, I'll be talking about adolescent health concerns.
  2. The first one that I chose is automobile accidents.
  3. Motor vehicle accidents are responsible for a
  4. majority of deaths during this developmental stage.
  5. In 2019. Almost 2400 teens in the U. S.
  6. Age 13 to 19 were killed in motor vehicle crashes.
  7. And when you look at that statistic,
  8. that is a huge number of teens being killed in one year by one thing.
  9. Additionally,
  10. the risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among teens
  11. aged 16 to 19 than any other age group.
  12. And this would be expected in a way do the teens getting their
  13. license around age 16 being fairly inexperienced until about 19 years old.
  14. The main causes for car crashes include again, driver,
  15. inexperience driving with teen passengers, nighttime driving,
  16. not using seatbelts, distracted, drowsy, reckless and impaired driving.
  17. The presence of teen or young adult passengers
  18. increases the crash risk significantly for these unsupervised teen
  19. drivers and this risk increases with each additional teen
  20. or young adult passenger that's in the car.
  21. Yeah,
  22. safe driving promotion.
  23. The good news is that crashes are preventable strategies to promote safe driving.
  24. Would include putting your phone away until you
  25. get to your destination if you're drinking,
  26. appoint a designated driver for the night,
  27. put on your seatbelt before turning the car on
  28. and limit the number of passengers in the car.
  29. Additionally,
  30. parents need to role model correct behavior as well as
  31. set rules and pay attention to their child's activities.
  32. Look
  33. by doing this,
  34. it will last for open communication
  35. and for their child to be safer. In general.
  36. The second concern that I chose is teen pregnancy and stds
  37. Only about 50% of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22.
  38. Whereas women who did not give birth during the adolescence period,
  39. about 90% of them graduate from high school.
  40. When you look at that statistic, that is a huge jump.
  41. Teen pregnancy interrupts plans school and
  42. other activities and takes emotional maturity,
  43. which many young girls are lacking at that time.
  44. As for stds,
  45. the incidence is increasing in the team population and HPV
  46. is the most common despite an effective vaccine being available.
  47. The vaccination rates for that are very low.
  48. Mhm.
  49. The health promotion for this would be sex education,
  50. educating adolescents on the importance of safe sex and
  51. birth control options that are available to them,
  52. such as condoms, oral contraceptives i E D s
  53. and more.
  54. I encourage adolescents to receive the HPV
  55. vaccine before they become sexually active.
  56. That would be males and females aged 11 - 12.
  57. And although most people become sexually active long after that.
  58. Getting that vaccine early is really important,
  59. promoting regular testing.
  60. If the patient sexually active, there's no shame in making sure everything's okay.
  61. And I would promote regular visits to the gynecologist for females to check
  62. up on that reproductive health and just make sure that everything's okay.
  63. Yeah.
  64. The third concern that I chose is substance abuse
  65. that was commonly used substances by adolescence are alcohol,
  66. marijuana and tobacco.
  67. The main causes include family history of substance abuse,
  68. mental or behavioral health conditions, low self esteem and the need
  69. for acceptance by peers.
  70. In addition, vaping is a very big problem now among teens.
  71. It was originally created to help smokers quit,
  72. but teens, it just keeps gaining popularity among teens and
  73. is a problem that really needs to be addressed
  74. as for drinking.
  75. Some feel drinking helps them deal with their feelings more
  76. easily and shy away from the reality of their problems.
  77. And binge drinking occurs in about 18%
  78. of teens and his comment among college students
  79. as for the health promotion would be substance abuse prevention,
  80. such as encouraging activities that do not include those substances,
  81. such as maybe not going to a party or not putting yourself
  82. in a situation that you know that those substances will be there,
  83. educating on the impact substances have on your overall health
  84. and the long term effects that they would have.
  85. And talking about open communication is key
  86. in getting the information that you need.
  87. Uh, we encourage parents to establish rules and consequences,
  88. keep track of their child's activities and
  89. be open understanding and supportive of this changing
  90. time in their life and make sure that they continue on the right path.