...Community Health Promotion Tool Hypertension, which is a heart disease, is one of the 10 most expensive health conditions for U.S. employers. High blood pressure affect 1 in 3 Americans and it is more common in African Americans and older adults. The ratio increases with age, from 1 in 10 people in their twenties and thirties to 5 in 10 people in their fifties. Both sexes are at risk of developing hypertension but this condition is more common in men under 45 years old and in women after menopause. It is the most common primary diagnosis used in office visits in the United States each year. The estimated direct and indirect cost of High Blood Pressure in the billions. Employers are now using a few health promotion initiatives, from onsite gyms to newsletters to encourage their employees to take precautionary measures to avoid the onset or worsening of an illness or disease and to embrace a healthier lifestyle. While some businesses have established very comprehensive health promotional programs, others have attained saving or increased productivity with just a few simple activities. Worksite programs associated to physical activity, nutrition, stress, type 2 diabetes, and obesity can assist employees in lowering high blood pressure. One of the most cost-effective ways of reducing premature cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is by controlling blood pressure with medication. Studies have shown that employees are more likely to be on the job and performing well when...
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...Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Christy Lundy June 15, 2014 Review of Literature Health Promotion Defined Health promotion is a discipline that seeks to improve the health of individuals and communities through education, behavioral change, and environmental improvement (The University of Oklahoma). Health promotion does not include education alone. It consists of proactive decision making taken by individuals, families, and communities to promote and sustain an optimal level of health. Health promotion can be broken down into two parts, active and passive. In passive health promotion, the individual is not actively participating. An example of passive health promotion would be government regulation, including FDA approvals or sanitation programs. Active health promotion involves the individual actively participating. Active health promotion would include an individual choosing to eat a proper, healthy diet or performing daily exercises. Purpose of Health Promotion in Nursing Nurses play a very influential role in health promotion. As health educators, nurses provide their patients, families, and communities with the necessary information and tools to take responsibility for their health. By implementing the education bestowed upon them, the patient and their families are empowered to make healthier choices and take action to live a healthier lifestyle. This in return, holds the best promise for lowering cost of health care (Edelman &...
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...Review of Literature In today’s society, health promotion has become a fundamental part of nursing care. As nursing has evolved, so has the need to educate the public. Today’s literature gives many examples of health promotion and its importance. In this paper the purpose of health promotion, the roles and responsibilities of nurses in health promotion, and implementation methods will be reviewed while discussing the three levels of health promotion: primary, secondary and tertiary. Health promotion is defined in many ways. By today’s standards, it is a process by which individuals are encouraged to take action in order to enable a healthy and productive lifestyle. Partnership and participation are key factors which empower individuals and communities to take control of their health. This allows for a sense of accountability for their actions which leads to a greater fulfillment with successful outcomes. The purpose of health promotion in nursing is vital because nurses have a responsibility to society. Nurses need not only care for individuals while ill, but also to educate and empower those individuals to improve their health prior to illness itself. Nurses have always begun educating patients on their needs upon admission with an illness and this education was individually tailored and specific to their illness. However, the purpose of health promotion in nursing is not to simply help the ill recover, but to prevent illness from occurring, and educate those with illness...
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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion Literature Review Jennifer L. Gallo Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion 429V April 22, 2012 Jennifer L. Cook RN, MSN Running Head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion “describes a multifaceted approach to encourage health related lifestyle changes among individuals and communities” and “aims to allow people to increase their control over their health and the factors that affect it with the ultimate aim of enhancing health and its determinants.” (Bennett, Perry & Lawrence, 2009, pg. 49). This essay will discuss the purpose of health promotion, the role and responsibility assumed by nurses in health promotion, implementation of health promotion by nurses, and will identify and define the three levels of health promotion prevention. Until the mid-twentieth century, health care was illness orientated. Main causes of death up to that point were related to infectious disease. Around 1940, chronic illnesses including heart disease, stroke, and cancer became the leading of deaths. (McLeroy & Crump,1994). As the focus of health care changed, the role of nursing changed as well. Historically, nurses provided care to the ill and provided treatment for diseases without necessarily emphasizing health education. As healthcare has evolved, promoting wellness has become a fundamental part of the nursing profession. Nurses are in a position to influence health modification in individuals, families...
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...Health Promotion 1 Literature Review Bressy Thomas Grand Canyon University Health Promotion 2 Health promotion involves motivation and improvement in someone’s health and identifies their potential health problems. From the literature reviews, Health promotion defined in different ways. Literature, Worldviews on Evidence-base nursing, explains health promotion as, Etiologically –driven socio-political-economic determinants of health are addressed. This serves to counter social inaction and social division/inequality. It is an inherently political process…that leads to community coalitions through shared radical consciousness. Health promotion looks to develop and reform social structures…between representative stakeholders in different sectors and agencies. (Whitehead 2004b) Looking after community, looking after their lifestyles and advising them really on their needs and how...
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...Centered Health Promotion 03.20.2016 Kristine Matteson In healthcare there is ethnic and cultural diversity in our patient population. Healthcare workers consider the cultural and ethnic backgrounds while interacting and treating a patient. As nurses we have the responsibility of being culturally competent. This allows us to integrate cultural health related beliefs in treatment plans and allows us to bridge any gaps between cultural and ethnic health maintenance, protection and restoration beliefs. Many of these health related beliefs come from a person’s heritage. Culture and heritage are terms that are similar and can be used interchangeably. Culture refers to “the learned and shared beliefs, values, and life ways of a group that are generally transmitted from one generation to the next and influence people's thoughts and actions.” (Smith, 2009, pg. 272) Heritage is defined as “something inherited at birth, such as personal characteristics, status, and possessions or anything that has been transmitted from the past or handed down by tradition.” (Webster, n.d) This paper focuses on the interview and assessment of three families from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds using the Heritage assessment tool. The heritage assessment tool is a resource to gauge the impact of a person’s culture and beliefs, actions and way of living in their day-to-day life. It is a useful tool in...
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...Chronic Disease Guidelines - Health Promotion Program Tool Health Promotion Program Plan Date Location Remote Indigenous community Problem The number of 12-17 year old males coming to the health centre with respiratory problems in MayJuly of each year has progressively increased by at least 5% every year for the last 5 years Need for HP activity (Why is the activity needed) Preventable illness Increasing presentations to centre Team members who will assist to deliver the program (include other service providers / partners) 1. Local teenagers with recent respiratory problems - research 2. Primary Health Care Centre – delivery of program Health worker team MO Nursing team 3. RFDS team – delivery of program 4. Respiratory Council of Australia – provision of resources 5. Community Council – partnering in research and delivery options Goal To reduce the number of teenagers developing respiratory infections within 2 years Key Messages (to be delivered) Stop smoking Importance of hand washing Need for Influenza and Pneumococcal immunisations Target Group Teenage males and females Time of activity March / April Name of the Health Promotion activity Objective One Obtain and disseminate appropriate educational tools regarding respiratory infections Strategies How to achieve objective one Actions Tasks to do Resources required Who will do it? What is needed? Cost? Time frame When will be done? Evaluation How is it going? What will be measured? Participant...
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...Health Promotion Pamela McFall Grand Canyon University: Family-Centered Health Promotion November 10, 2013 Health promotion as stated by Chambers & Thompson (2008, pg. 131), “Within the health promotion movement, empowerment has come to focus on promoting equality in health and public participation in decisions affecting health. Empowerment has come to mean a process by which: individual people are encouraged to assert their own autonomy and self-esteem sufficiently to be able to identify their own health agendas, rather than being told what to do”. Adults with the disease or the risk factors can prevent and manage both the disease processes. Health promotion within the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, patients can participate actively to help arrest the disease process and increase their chances of maintaining the levels of health for which they have achieved. Approximately five million people in the United States have Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and it is the cause of about 300,000 deaths per year (American Heart Association, 2013). The American Heart Association estimates that 78 million American adults have hypertension, a leading cause of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Leading the way to CHF and CAD is poor dietary habits, a sedentary lifestyle, and family history. Prevention starts in childhood but is not limited to children. Thus, the purpose of health promotion in our nursing practices is to enhance the patient’s potential to competent...
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...The complexity of health care system continues to development. Health promotion was defined as a health care process of people to control of and improve their health by behaviors change and it is important for nurses to focus on the areas of individual, family, community, socioeconomic, cultural and environmental. This process allows people to reach their tremendous health potential for self-change by new behaviors and improves their environment and activities for disease prevention. In addition to the concept of health promotion, it includes health information, reliable resources and health promotion activities to achieve better quality of life and well-being. Currently, Pender, Murdaugh & Parsons (2011) describes that “health promotion is behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential” (p. 5). The purpose of health promotion is nursing practice is to incorporate with people to make choices and decisions for engaging healthy behaviors to have health lifestyles in multidimensional areas, such as cultural and socioeconomic dimensions. As changes in nursing practice and education, nurse’s professional role and responsibilities have expended and nurses have more opportunities to play a central role in peoples’ health care. To better assist people to recognize health problems and to choose effective ways for preventing diseases and promoting longevity, nurses need to work as educator, advocate, care managers, consultant, services, healer...
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...Heritage and Health November 10, 2012 Heritage and Health Three families one each being of Caucasian, Hispanic and Thai cultures have been explored using the Health Assessment Tool. This paper compares health traditions of these families of different cultures and discusses how understanding an individual’s culture leads to better relationships which allow health maintenance and promotion to be more effective. Let us start by defining key terms essential to this paper. Culture is the values and beliefs specific to a group or population and is an element of ethnicity. Ethnicity is “a reference to a collective identity, a sense of uniqueness within the larger society and a distinction from non- members” (Edelman, 2010). Values and beliefs influence our behavior and our actions and by knowing what influences a culture and recognizing an individual’s particular culture will help guide health maintenance and promotion. The National Alliance for Hispanics Health stated in 2004 that the longer a generation is in this country the further away they get from their own culture (CDC's Health Community Program). Therefore, by using the Heritage Assessment Tool a nurse is able to understand where a person’s heritage begins and how the person identifies with their heritage. As an example, this tool can help identify if a client belongs to a religious institution, in which, they may want to have access for support. If they...
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...Youth Brenda McLelland Capella University MSN 6012 Unit 8: Designing Health Promotion Programs September, 2015 Abstract Concerns about addressing the nutritional health of Cleveland’s impoverished children continue to plague the Cleveland community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2013, Cleveland has the third largest child poverty rate among the top cities in the United States ("Hunger Facts," 2013). Insufficient resources to provide adequate food and lack of proper nutritional education for these children has a dramatic effect on the health and well-being for this vulnerable group. Not only does poverty have a direct relationship to negative child outcomes, but nutritional intake and education, as well. This article will focus on a theory-based health care promotion plan that will address the poor, school-age children living in Cleveland. Strategies will be identified in promoting nutritional education to improve healthy eating for these children in an attempt to improve the health and wellness for this vulnerable group. Guidelines for quality monitoring, evaluating, and adaptations of this health promotion plan will also be discussed so that it can be used across various health care settings. Implementing a health promotion plan that incorporates appropriate theory, research-based interventions, evaluative measures, and quality improvement metrics is pivotal if the health care professional is to be successful in supporting desired healthy behaviors...
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...Project: Discussion and comparison of health promotion and prevention levels Nathan McCain Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V Kimberly Stout June 24, 2012 Comparative Research Project: Discussion and comparison of health promotion and prevention levels The purpose of this paper is to discuss the application of the three levels of health promotion: primary, secondary, and tertiary. To be included in this discussion, how health promotion is defined, the purpose of health promotion in nursing practice, nursing roles and responsibilities evolving in health promotion, and comparison of the three levels of health prevention. Three current journal articles relating to youth violence were chosen for examination of content and comparison regarding their methodology in their use of health promotion and prevention, at specified levels of care. Health promotion is defined in different manners. The general consensus within the health care community is that any model should reflect healthy actions and positive outlooks regarding health and well-being. The client should play a large part in the design of how their health goals are assessed, evaluated, and implemented. The client should be taught self-directed actions of care that improve their ability to magnify well-being, by enhancing their physical activity, improving their diet, managing stress, and eliminating unhealthy lifestyle habits. Health promotion and prevention should be directed toward...
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...7. HEALTH PROMOTION The research work is on the impact of economic factors on health promotion. The research was carried out on an elderly patient with limited income, who have to decide which of the medications he will get refilled due to lack of income. Literally it means he is taking half of his medications prescribed by the physician or nurse practitioner. Another scenario is that of a community health nurse promoting health in Oak Park a low-income area. As she does her visit she realized that there is no grocery shop that sells fresh fruits and vegetables in Oak Park. She decided to carry out health education on nutrition with families as caseload, the response from all the families is that local convenience stores only stocked prepared...
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...University: NRS- 429 4/9/2016 The Heritage Assessment tool is used by healthcare professionals in order for them to find out the patient’s cultural, religious and ethnic background. Culture is defined as an element of ethnicity, consisting of shared values and behaviors associated with a particular group. (Edelman, et al, 2014) In order to improve the quality of care, it’s important to understand the patient’s culture and the health practices they traditionally use. Regarding the Heritage Assessment tool’s usefulness, it will allow the healthcare professional to understand the patient as a whole due to the fact that it addresses the individual’s heritage, cultural, religious and ethic background and behaviors and how they may relate to the patient’s views on health and wellness. To be Culturally Competent, one has to be able to provide healthcare based on the total patient situation- ethnically, culturally and spiritually. The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to open up dialogue in order for the healthcare professional to have a better understanding of their patient and allow them to provide more effective healthcare with the patient’s own health traditions having been assessed. This, ideally, will result in a holistic approach to healthcare. (Giger & Davidhizar, 1990) Common Health Traditions Based on the cultural heritage information received from the Heritage Assessment Tool filled out by the families chosen, the families from Germany...
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...HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion Health Promotion Health, as the World Health Organization (WHO) defines it, is the state of complete physical, social and mental well being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. The enjoyment of highest attainable standard of health is considered as one of the fundamental rights of every human being (Sanjiv, K., & Preetha, G., 2012). It is our responsibility as health care providers to educate our patient populations so that they might achieve optimum health ideally through health promotion throughout their life span. Disease prevention is a critical element in our nursing practice. Disease promotion has three phases: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Primary prevention focuses on the pre disease state by actions designed to promote general optimum health or by the specific protection of human beings against illnesses or establishing barriers against agents in the environment. Secondary prevention is the area of early diagnosis followed by prompt and thorough treatment. At the point where damage has been suffered, where in there is a disability or defect, tertiary prevention is instituted with therapy or rehabilitation (Disease, 2009). As an example of how disease promotion may play out across the life span, cardiac disease is evaluated. In 2001, 10.5% of high school students were overweight. Fewer than 22% consumed the recommended number of servings per day of fruits, vegetables...
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