[ANSWER]NUR2102 Assessment 1 – National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions: Application to Mrs Anya Strico’s Case Study

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According to Strategic Priority Area 1.1 of the National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions, a critical aspect of chronic disease prevention and management involves reducing health risk factors via health promotion activities (Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council, 2017). These risk factors range from behavioural and biomedical to social and environmental factors.

The major risk factors for Mrs Strico are smoking, age, and genetics. Smokers, older individuals and people from a family with a history of COPD are more likely to develop COPD compared to the rest of the population (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2020; Hogea et al., 2020). The 75-year-old Mrs Strico is a smoker and her father had COPD too.

She also has a history of respiratory infections. Such a history increases the risk for COPD (Yang et al., 2017). Other notable risk factors for COPD include low socioeconomic status, living in a rural/remote area, poor nutrition, and being overweight or obese (Osman et al., 2017; Sutradhar et al., 2019; Yang et al., 2017). Mrs Strico has all these factors: she lives in rural and remote area located 150 kms away from the nearest metropolitan area; she is dependent…[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 1931 WORDS] [Chronic Conditions]

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