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FAMILY ANALYSIS AND EDUCATION
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
1. Prevalence or Incidence and Main Causes of Hypertension in Australia    3
2. Grading System, Primary Management, Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Characteristics of Hypertension    4
Conclusion    5
Appendix: Education Plan for Katrina and Trevor    6
References    9
Introduction
Hypertension can be refe
ed to as the condition, in which the levels of blood pressure is increasingly high. It can lead to several other health issues, especially those concerning cardiac diseases; hence, it should be controlled strictly under normal limits of 120/80mm of Hg column (Sun, 2015). The cu
ent essay presents the situations of Katrina and Trevor, who are suffering from cardiac diseases, for which hypertension has been assessed to create their education plans.
1. Prevalence or Incidence and Main Causes of Hypertension in Australia
The prevalence or occu
ence of hypertension happens to be one of the highest concerns in Australia. The Heart Foundation of Australia (2018) indicate that 68% of Australian population are having blood pressure higher than 140/90 mm of Hg level, whereas the normal value should be 120 mm of systolic pressure and 80 mm of diastolic pressure. Any individual having blood pressure above this level is considered to be suffering from hypertension and in Australia, there are more 6 million adult individuals, who are under this category. However, as argued by Ga
et al. (2016), the key reason for this statistics is their lack of awareness and lifestyle choices amongst the Australian people, who have different beliefs or ideas about managing their health.
As in case of Katrina, it could be seen that her mother has hypertension and her father has diabetes. Nevertheless, they were not educated enough to understand that their health conditions can affect their children as well. Moreover, as supported by Evans et al. (2016), lack of awareness or proper knowledge about medication is a serious area of concern, which should be addressed immediately with the help of education that can even save someone’s life. Therefore, lack of education about health and health issues is another major reason behind the prevalence or causation of hypertension in Australia.
This can be proven with the data existing for the Australian indigenous community for hypertension, which is considerably higher than that in the non-indigenous community. According to Jennings (2016), a major reason for this can be their social and economic disparities, which do not allow them to live a better standard of life. Hence, it can be seen that the incidence of hypertension amongst the people with less than $55000 as annual household income have higher rate of incidence (39.2%), while people with more than $120000 as annual household income have lower rate of incidence (27.4%) (Heart Foundation, 2018).
2. Grading System, Primary Management, Modifiable and Non-Modifiable Characteristics of Hypertension
The grading system of hypertension is a form of categorising the patients under their extent of suffering from the condition that can be either or not modified. As mentioned by Shafi et al. (2016), it is based on the diastolic and systolic pressure, with which the blood flows through the blood vessels. Hence, 120mm is the normal systolic pressure and 80mm is the normal diastolic pressure using Hg column, above which the individual is termed to be hypertensive.
According to Moreno-Vinasco et al. (2017),...