Medical Health Care

Medical Health Care

Introduction

The occurrence and prevalence of chronic conditions is increasing in most developed and the developing countries and it will comprise the main cause of death till 2020. Among children and adolescents, the expectancy of increase in (Ailish Gill, 2012) the life because of the enhancements in the hygiene, nutrition and the transferable diseases are creating epidemiological evolution in which non communicable diseases like unending or the chronic diseases and the disability is rising as among the major health problems. Adolescence has been described as the period between 10 to 19 years old by WHO, (World Health organization), but most of the content reviews applies to individuals from 12 - 19 years of age, that have been entered in the puberty.

Discussion

Effect of Chronic Disease

Chronic disease can stop the mechanism of growth in an individual, puberty and the maturation of other system of the biology through the lack of nutrients. Delayed growth and the puberty are most commonly found in adolescents (MacInnes, 2011) along with the chronic illness, and also the most common in those where the malnutrition and the chronic inflammation are also a factor. There is wide range of chronic medical condition. Some might be life threatening diseases, like cancer, heart disease and AIDS on the other hand some might be associated with the process of aging and some have still a steady progression. Some diseases like the diabetes and high blood pressure can be controlled and managed, as they are predictable diseases but diseases that are not understandable are unpredictable and frustrating for the medical profession.

Psychologist can facilitate individuals learning process in order to manage the various stages that can be experienced by the person during his or her illness. The adaptation of the process of diseases is a continuous process as it is expected that there would be number of challenges and setbacks along the journey (Redman,2011).There are many ways due to which individual would be affected psychologically. Some of the factors include the severity of the diseases, the treatment involved and the nature of illness and also the ability of individual to manage with the personality. Discarding a sense of the preceding independence takes a charge on the self-esteem of an individual, the self worth and also the self image of individual. There are certain emotions that results in an increase in the feeling of loosing status, power and the control that would overcome a capable and the functioning individual. There are various ways due to which person can learn to find the way through the multifaceted reactions and the adjustments that are faced by patients during the stages of the illness.

The findings of the study shows that the solitary presence of the chronic disease will have an adverse impact on the behavioral problems among children and the adolescents. The variance across the studies with respect to the psychopathology could be because of sampling error, and the chronological age appeared to be significantly related to the psychopathology in the chronological disease while ...