Disease

Prevention
BARBARA CONDORI-TEVES
ANA DE FREITAS
DIANA MOLINA
KARRIE TONHSAY
ANGELA CONDORI-TEVES

Research Question

How are health related communities treating

and preventing disease?

[Research done in Salt Lake City]

Project steps
1. Talk to health representatives
2. Gather data and compile
3. Draft presentation
4. Present to HOSA

How we gathered data

1. We visited and talked to health professionals
2. Asked questions
3. Learned about programs offered
4. Personal stories
5. Learned facts from factsheets

Mentor
Brenda Voisard (Career Development Care
Manager) phD in Psychology

Perinatal Nurse Arlene

Wyss

Select Health Insurance employee

goal was to decrease pre-term births

help pregnant moms and infants stay healthy

from the beginning to the end

programs such as "Healthy Beginnings"

prenatal classes for new moms (16 hospitals in
Utah offer)

"Educating people, prevents problems."

Probs: low amniotic fluid, dehydration, short

cervix, folic acid, fatal anomaly, pertussis,
preclampsia, etc.

Perinatal Trends

The older the mother, the higher the risk of

conceiving a child who has down syndrome

Adoption has decreased

If you were a pre-term birth, you will most likely

have pre-term labor

If the pregnant mother has high blood pressure,

the child will have high blood pressure

The younger you are the more complicated

birth is as well as the after effects due to
human development

Select Health Diabetes and Heart

Failure Care Manager Patricia

Goal is to prevent diabetes and help people who

have diabetes stay healthy

Type I vs. Type II

Sitting Disease

People with pre diabetes don't have symptoms

Condition is found by testing blood glucose

levels

"Domino Effect" leads to health problems

Insulin

Diabetes Trends

If Grandma and Mother have diabetes then you

will have a higher risk for diabetes. (Genetic
components).

Food choices in ages 8-14

College stress and Alcohol ages 18-21

If pregnant mother has diabetes then child is

more likely to have diabetes.

baby blood sugar is twice of the mother

Most common in Blacks, Hispanics, Polynesians

and American Indians.

Family and Sports medicine Doctor

and Medical Director Liz Joy

Specializes in helping obese and diabetic

people

Enroll in programs that can help people stay

healthy and fit (Technology, community
gardens).

Physical Education in schools

Substance use for adults and adolescence

(Utah).

Office had a treadmill!

More Trends

Native Americans, Hispanics and Polynesians

have a high risk for diabetes.

If children get at least 60 minutes of vigorous

activities each day their risk of getting diabetes
when they are older lowers dramatically.

Utah has a high number of people using

prescription medicine to overdose. (Religion)

Questions?