Outcome 3. Multimedia Presentation By Katelyn Birmingham Homelessness

Summaries Mental Health: Mental health is a disturbance in a person's thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Asthma: Asthma is a respitory condition that involves the airways narrowing and swelling, as mucus is being produced. Diabetes: Diabetes covers a range of conditions that cause there to be too much glucose in the blood due to the body being unable to produce the right amount of insulin to convert food into energy. Weight issues: Overweight- can contribute to premature death and can be caused by excess fatty food intake and not enough energy expendature. (excercise). Underweight- can also be caused in many health issues. Eating disorders are commonly experienced by females adolescence. 1 in 10 young people are diagnosed with anorexia being male as 2-3% of females will satisfy the criteria of annorexia.

Illicit drugs/ Drug use: Australians aged 14 years and over user illicit drugs on a regular basis. Health problems include;organs/nervous system damage, psychological problems and mental illness. This can also be brought on by drug use. Sun protection: Australia has one of the worlds highest rates of skin cancer, it is well kown that over-exposer to the sun in the first 15 years of life is a major risk factor for the development of skin cancer later in life. Cyber-safety: Bullying has been reported and is the most serious concerns for youth in school. Cyber-bullying is prevelant fo children aged years old. There has been a case where 90% of schools have been bullyied or harrashed. Homelessness:People that are homeless can go through a stage of experiencing poor-mental health, barriers to education, reduced employment opportunities, discrimination and social exclusion.

Homelessness The impact on homeless people are ; family breakdowns and conflict, health, education and social isolation. People that become homeless often disrupts their familly life. It can distract family relationships where youth leaves home and not keep in contact with their family. Parents can often lose control over family activities and can be seperated due to the nature of crisis services. Health: mental health-Homeless can result greatly of young people getting involved with drugs and alcoholit has been found that homless youth have drug and alcohol usage frequencies that were three times greater then the averaged youth population. The impact of these behaviours can include; disability and death. Physical health: The physical health of homeless people is generally poorer than their housed counterparts. Physical health can lead to a range of problems such as; respitory problems, feet and dental and personal hygiene.

Risk factors are physical, social and emotional risks that have a negative impact on health, e.g. smoking tabacco as an adolescent. Risk factors plays an inportant role in the measurement of health. Health concerns of youth are often interrelated. Many of the factors that contribute to these concerns stem from risk factors. The risk factor for homelessness include; * seperation from parents * experience child abuse * family distruption * mental health problems + * addiction problems s

People that are homeless often make positive decisions regarding their health. When the community is directly involved in strategies or programs there is greater likelihood that an issue will be dealt within a way that is relevant to them. Parents, family and peers can be a great support of youth health, as they are familiar people to talk to about problems and health issues. Everyone as a health care consumer has certain rights and responsibilities such as; Rights- *safety * privacy * choice * be informed * access health care Responsibilities- * ask questions and discuss concerns * provide accurate as well as completwe information