Adolescents and Geriatrics

Adolescents and Geriatrics
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The Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator for children and teenagers is crucial in helping parents to monitor the weight of their preschool children, particularly those above the BMI chart. In particular, such parents can use these calculators to ensure that their children decrease their body weights to avoid obesity or overweight, which increases the vulnerabilities of young individuals to chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and hypertension.
Bullying refers to coercion, abuse, threat, and hurtful teasing intended to intimidate a person. Notably, it leads to social exclusion among adolescents, which might adversely affect young people’s mental and physical development (Skarstein, Helseth, & Kvarme, 2020). When initiating a conversation with adolescents about bullying, it is vital to use examples from the real world. In that light, an individual ought to be friendly to these young people and illustrate to them why they should not engage in behaviors that might lead to bullying.
Indeed, there exist numerous environmental factors affecting the health of middle-aged adults. Some of them include air pollution, global warming, climate change, healthcare inaccessibility, and poor quality of water. Environmental factors significantly influence individuals’ health. For example, breathing air contaminate...