Factor 2: Smoking
What are the short term effects?
- Cough & Colds
- Bad breath
- The colour of your nails changes (yellow)
- Finger tips, your teeth and under you eyes starts to get darker
- Heart also starts to pump harder to prevent harmful particles from entering your immune system.
What are the long term effects?
- Sleepless nights
- Less sense of smell
- Heart diseases
- Stroke
- Increased chance of lung cancer
- Chest pains
- Swelling neck and face
- Weakness in times and Short breath
Factor 3: Poor diet
What are the short term effects?
- Get out of breath easily
- Appearance starts to change physically due to the unhealthy eating.
What are the long term effects?
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
Factor 4 Drugs:
What are the short term effects?
Reduces sensitivity to pain.
Heart beat slows down
Causes body to over heat
There are different drugs that affect your body, they are the following: Heroin, Marijuana, Alcohol, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Steroids and Tobacco
What are the long term effects?
Increase in heart rate
Body temperature and appetite
Drowsiness also dryness of the mouth and throat
Case study Mary and Ken
Mary is 14. Her older brother Ken is unemployed. They live on an old-style housing estate surrounded by factories and near to a motorway. They live with their mum, dad and grandmother in a three-bedroom house. Ken has to sleep on the settee in the living-room so that his sister and grandmother can each have a room of their own.
Mary suffers from asthma and has an hour’s journey to the nearest hospital when she has a serious attack. Her doctor is also a 20minute bus trip away. Pollution from the factories and the motorway traffic contribute to her asthma attacks.
Ken is finding it difficult to get full-time work; he cannot afford to run a car and the local public transport is very infrequent and expensive.
Mary and Ken’s mum works part-time in a local pub and their dad has been unemployed since the closure of the factory that he worked in. He is under treatment for depression and feels that no one wants to employ him at the age of 56. He hangs about the house all day, smokes heavily, does no exercise and is beginning to put on the weight.
- What social factors could contribute to Mary’s health and well-being?
- Well she lives far from the centre so she hasn’t got easy access to transport so it will be hard for her to out with her mates, socialise and have fun. Its also hard for her to do to the hospital or doctors in case something happens to her (heart attack)
- What are the physical factors that contribute to Mary’s health and well-being?
Her father smokes which could affect her amsma. She has asthma which has come from all the polluted air around her because she lives near an area with lots of factories and the motorway.
- What emotional factor is contributing to the depression of Ken and Mary’s father?
- He father is old and he’s convinced he won’t get a good job because of his age, which means he’s doubting his self in what he can and can’t do. He also eats a lot of unhealthy food (junk) which gets him in a bad weight which can result in strokes or heart attacks; he also goes to the pub and smokes which could have a negative affect on him because he could get lung cancer or heart disease.
