HNN348 Rural & Remote Area Nursing Assessment Task XXXXXXXXXXwords (50% weighting) Purpose of assessment task This assessment task will enable you to critically analyse and synthesise information from...

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Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease in the Rural Australia: Key Approaches
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Introduction
    The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases has been perceived as common among various populations and communities at international level. In fact, the extensive research that is conducted over taking preventive measures has now made it possible to the patients and to the experts of CVD to adapt to a positive approach in treating it (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016). In Australian context, there are more than 3 million of cases are registered so far which implies that one in a six Australian suffers from CVD. In approximately 12 minutes, the death of one Australian is caused by CVD. However, the point that is noteworthy here is that the ratio of getting affected by CVD is higher in rural areas in Australia than it is seen in the urbanized regions. Some possible reasons behind this prevalence are related to less access to healthcare services, poor lifestyle measures as well as lack of positive behaviors or clinical interventions to alleviate their health standards (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016)
The Overview of Prevalence of CVD in Regional Areas
    At first, it is significant to note here that people living in the rural areas have less access to the healthcare services which impedes their healthy status of body and mind. In fact, the cardiovascular diseases emerge because of having weak lifestyles like non punctuated routine, bad diet followed as well as over consumption of the harmful drugs, alcohol or smoking. It is likely possible that people tend to develop a routine which affects their overall health, when it comes to take precautions against the onset of the CVD diseases either early or late in life. Mostly, the social, economical and clinical determinants influence the progress and rapid growth of CVD based morbidity in rural and remote areas in Australia (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016)
The Social and Economical Determinants
     In the context of examining the causes behind the over prevalence of CVD in rural areas of Australia, the social and economical factors contribute significantly (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016). The social determinants firsthand affect the growth and scale of awareness that is required for taking preventions against any possibility of having CVD. The demographical isolation leads to the principle thought that social distancing becomes mandatory to the local people, enabling distance in their behavior, sharing of information with each other as well in determining at which point of time, they need support of a clinical expert in order to take care of their lives (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016)
    Categorically, there are five major divisions in which, the Australian communities are placed. These are major cities, inner regional, outer regional, remote and very remote areas. The major impact of CVD has been seen majorly in the remote and very remote areas because these are the regions where the lack of social support, clinical access of people towards qualified medical facilities as well as the lifestyle issues in the routine exists to a large extent. In 2014, the full time work, including the weekly hours given for work as per the norms of government, were low in the remote and very remote areas. It simply implies the fact that the availability of employment is low in these regions which is further responsible for their low economical status (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020).
    Moreover, when it comes to facilitate the healthcare services, people living in remote areas have to access these services by travelling a long distance. In their local areas, clinical support—or at least the support that is qualified as the medical care—is less available. The access to healthcare services, thus, is low and it is not properly farmed for the diversified population living in the remote and very remote areas of the nation (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020). For instance, 57% of people...