...Positive Impact of Health Promotion on Society Amy Castle Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Dr. Jennifer Costello November 2, 2013 The Positive Impact of Health Promotion on Society Health is a very important concept in society today. It involves the physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning of a person. Health promotion was developed to empower people to take control, make informed decisions, and improve health. This paper will discuss the different levels of health promotion and the role and responsibility the nurse plays in the implementation of health promotion in society. Health Promotion Health promotion is a comprehensive social and political process; it embraces actions directed at strengthening skills and capabilities of individuals, with action directed towards changing social, environmental, and economic conditions to alleviate their impact on public and individual health. Health promotion involves a commitment to education, action, and evaluation with in a set of goals that emphasize social justice and health equity, respect for diversity, and social determinants of health, while focusing on the individual, organization, or community (Cameron,2009). Nursing Roles and Responsibilities Nurses play an important role in educating their communities. They possess a wide range of knowledge, competencies, and skills to promote health. Nurses work in many diverse settings, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies...
Words: 1158 - Pages: 5
...ensures excellence patient care. There are “six steps in assessment, nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation” (Petiprin, 2015 para.3). The nursing process guides the nurse to perform specific duties and make a decision regarding patient care. A variety of nursing theories are combined into the nursing process. Nursing theories have a strong impact on education, training and development of professional nurses. Nursing and Educational Theories Nursing and educational theories are important in the nursing profession. Nursing and educational methods are used to improve patient outcomes, and to educate the community and individual families. Heath promotion is a nursing theory designed to prevent illness and the maintain disease. Nursing Theory ”Health promotion emphasis on behavior in the direction of social and environmental Interventions” (WHO, 2015, P. 1). Health promotion makes families and communities aware of preventive methods of diseases. Health promotion emphases on maintaining a healthy lifestyle for families and communities. Health promotion also focuses on educational theories, behaviorism is one of three educational theories. Educational Theory Behaviorism holds an influential part in the study of psychology. In the 20th century behavior theorist thought learning was a noticeable change in behavior, which occurs when two events come together, a stimulus and a response (Aliakbari, Parvin, Heidari, & Haghani,...
Words: 1104 - Pages: 5
...head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion: Educating The Nurse and The Public Kurt Luedtke Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Vicki Denson Health Promotion The Healthy People 2010 report designates nursing as one of the prime proponents of health promotion. Nurses are the largest single group of health care providers in the United States with an estimated 2.6 million registered nurses practicing (ANA) throughout the country. As the largest field of health care providers nurses will have a huge affect on health promotion and health education through community, hospital and legislative based activity. More importantly, health promotion will need to be a greater part of the nursing education curriculum as nursing education has had a heavy emphasis on acute care and health education but only recently has there been an emphasis on health promotion. The World Health Organization [WHO] defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health (WHO, 1986, p. 1). WHO broadly describes health as well being in the social, the mental, the environmental and the physical attributes of an individual or group not just a state from being free from disease. The idea that health promotion can help achieve health by assisting individuals and groups to become more active in their own health by various means such as education, promoting positive lifestyle choices, health screening...
Words: 1097 - Pages: 5
...Title: “The Role of Health Promotion in Reducing/Eradicating Non-Income Poverty amongst the Rural Population in Developing Countries” Introduction Health and Poverty are emerging global issues at the front of development debates, discussions and initiatives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (UNDP, 2013), brings to the global agenda an urging need that deserves proactive global attention if lives will be saved. Non income poverty happens when people may have a little bit of money but otherwise the quality of their life is not good. They do not have access to affordable social and physical services like schooling, health care, medications, safe water, good sanitation, good transport etc., and they may not feel safe in their homes either because they cannot trust the authorities or because they belong to some particularly vulnerable group The first MDG goal directly stresses out the significance of poverty while goals 4, 5 & 6 relate to health. The rest focus more on the socio-environmental, economic and political issues that largely determine the population’s ill-health and wellbeing. Hence it is inevitable that poverty and health are globalised issues with greater local impacts that both must be addressed well using integrated approaches if quality health outcomes need to be achieved. The concept of health promotion in particular provides the overarching framework to practically address health inequalities and inequities that are determined by the broader...
Words: 2119 - Pages: 9
...Health Promotion in Nursing Marcus Botts Grand Canyon University Health Promotion in Nursing In its most simple definition health promotion is the process of facilitating individuals, groups, and/or communities control their own health. There is a strong compatibility between health promotion and occupational therapy with the earliest discussions dating back more than fifty years ago. The idea of health promotion to prevent illness was highlighted internationally in 1978 at an international Conference on Primary Health Care. The Declaration of Alma-Ata expressed the need for immediate action by all governments, health care workers and developers, as well as the work community to promote and protect the health of people worldwide. (Health Promotion: Future occupational therapy in an ageing New Zealand, p36, 2012). In 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO), released the Ottawa Charter, which is perhaps, the most important document in the field of health promotion. It provides five principles to guide health promotion activities: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and re-orienting health care services toward prevention of illness and promotion of health. These principles provide a vision to which occupational therapy health promotion services should be aligned. (Health Promotion: Future occupational therapy in an ageing New Zealand, p36, 2012). As it relates to health care promotion...
Words: 1418 - Pages: 6
...Health Promotion (Author’s Name) (Institutional Affiliation) Explain the effects of socioeconomic influences on health. Key factors such as the heredity, age and sex have a significant impact on health. The decision on choices that we also make count, but in most case this decisions are influenced by our surroundings, culture and other factors usually referred as determinant of health. Socioeconomic factors such as the education, income and social interconnection have a direct impact on health. These factors can strongly interact to have a significant effect on health both positively or negatively. The chances are, improvement in any of these three factors would lead to improvement in the health status as well as the behavior of the individuals or the group (Wheaton, 2000). Those with low income, for instance, often have inadequate access to housing, nutrition, food, poor working conditions and so on this may have a negative impact on their social life leading to life stress. As the time goes by this life stress may result in diseases such as high blood measure or complication in the immune and circulatory. On the other hand, those who are financially stable are in most instances likely to face those disease threats that do not rely on material needs. The only needs maybe only need maybe home or job commitments of which they have control over. Socioeconomic factors may also lead to psychological...
Words: 3871 - Pages: 16
...The impact of Health Promotion Over the past decades, the goals of health care have been changed from disease treatment to disease prevention and a lot of theories and models have been applied to increase the quality of care and improve the health. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the definition of health promotion is “The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” and it includes other factors such as health education, organization, policy, and economy altogether to improve health (Hooyman&Kiyak, 1999). The health promotion model was created for the purpose of providing a sense of security for the individuals, their loved ones, and society to help them to control their illness and their environment giving competence and eventually to give people healthy life not just to cure their diseases. There has been an increasing demand for the roles of nurses as the health care setting has been moving toward prevention of illness. The primary health promotion is targeting to prevention of illness occur which significant related to health education. Nurses have to provide their full range of education and nursing practice. US population has been changed diverse and average lifetime is extending along with the development of technology. The focus of healthcare system is how to reduce the increasing health care cost and prevention of chronic illness, community care rather than acute health care setting which requires for nurses to provide...
Words: 864 - Pages: 4
...Heath promotion as well-defined by the World Health Organization is the course of empowering individuals to upsurge control over, and to progress health. The theory of wellbeing advancement can be described as the art and science of serving individuals modify their life style attain a state of ideal health (Edelman and Mandle, 2010). This paper will present an integrative review upon the health promotion and its three stages of health prevention. The nursing roles and responsibilities sprouting in health promotion and the implementation of health will also be discussed in this paper. Purpose of Health promotion The goal of health promotion is to stimulate the health behavior of persons and societies and in same manner the physical and operational circumstances that affect their wellbeing. In other words, the aim of health promotion is to emphasis on “to focus on the person's potential for wellness and to encourage him or her to alter personal habits, lifestyle and environment in ways that will reduce risk and enhance health and will being (Smeltzer & Bare, 2006).” The chief motive of nursing in health promotion is to instruct inspire and support the patient to preserve an prevailing class of life by avoiding ailment, decelerating the advancement of a disorder or handling an sickness. Nursing Roles and Responsibilities Nurses have a significant impact in supporting community health. There have...
Words: 1190 - Pages: 5
...Health Promotion in Nursing Practice 1 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Amber Rose Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V July 25, 2014 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice 2 A wise man once said, “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” (Brainy Quotes, 2011). Buddha’s idea of taking control of ones health is the very idea behind health promotion. Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health (WHO, 2012). The goal of health promotion is to help prevent the spread of disease or premature death, while promoting healthy living choices. Nurses are an important piece to this process. The concern for nurses it to promote health promotion in nursing practice, help implement methods for health promotion, and to explain and educate the three levels of health promotion prevention. Health Promotion in Nursing Practice The purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is to educate, influence and aid the patient to maintain an existing quality of life by preventing illness, and if illness is present, help slow progression by managing the symptoms (). Nurses are constantly educating patients with every interaction. A new Essence of Care benchmark will expect nurses to promote good health with every patient contact, as this creates more opportunities to provide education (). Nurses educate the patient by providing facts, statistics...
Words: 1021 - Pages: 5
...Health promotion in Nursing Care Grand Canyon University NRS 429v April 29th 2012 Health promotion in Nursing Care Health is a condition of a sound mind, body and spirit. It is a state of physical, emotional and social well being, not just absence of disease (April 26th 2012). In this paper, the subject of health promotion will be defined , the purpose of health promotion, the nurses role in the responsibility and implementation of health promotion, and the 3 levels of preventive care which include, primary, secondary and tertiary. Health is not just without disease, but is the prevention, intervention and rehabilitation to live a quality life. Health promotion is a process of enabling people to have more control over their health by changing their life style to move toward optimal health (Edelman, Mandle, 2010). It not only focuses on the person as an individual and their behaviors, but also on the persons social and environmental determinates. Promotion of health is educating people so that they can change their lifestyle in order to have and maintain optimal health. It also includes enhancement of the person’s private and public support, of health practices. Heath promotion is not only about prevention of disease, but being proactive with being healthy (Edelman, Mandle, 2010). The nursing profession has a large role...
Words: 1139 - Pages: 5
...Nurses are part of the answer because they are well equipped to interact with our community in ways that encourages choices and openness to decisions that have a more positive impact on lifestyles and health outcomes`According to the American Journal of Health promotion Health Promotion “Health Promotion is the science and the art of helping people change their lifestyles to move toward an optimal health.” From my point of view it is also the process enabling people to take action in taking control over their health through educational and environmental support of others. Others believe Health promotion encompasses principles of addressing broad determinants of health by means of developing healthy public policy creating supportive environments strengthening community action, developing personal skills. As a theory Health Promotion remains an essential guide in addressing the major health challenges faced by developing countries. Nurses are the key health professional gui ding individuals, families, and community toward making the right decisions when it comes to health promotion. Nurses possess the skills, and know the theories and models to implement evidence based interventions into their practice to foster healthy lifestyle and to create healthy home, school, community and nation. The World Health Organizations (WHO) has repeatedly called...
Words: 1070 - Pages: 5
...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...
Words: 1040 - Pages: 5
...Comprehensive Health Promotion Candace Tiley GCU RN-BSN Family-Centered Health Promotion May 27, 2013 NRS-429V June 08, 2013 Comprehensive Health Promotion The purpose of this paper is to discuss the three tiers of Health Promotion which include, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary and how the three levels are applied. Other aspects that will be discussed will include how health promotion is defined, its purpose, and the nurses’ role and responsibility in health promotion. Several articles were pulled that discussed the application of the three varying levels of health promotion. The global goals according to the Healthy People Website include: The attainment of quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. Achieving health equity and eliminating disparities and improving the health of all groups of people. Creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all people, and promoting a quality life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages. (www.healthypeople.com) These goals encompass an individual’s Social Environment, Biologic and Genetic background, the Physical Environment in which they live and work, and the Health Services that they receive along the way. (www.healthypeople.com) The delivery of a comprehensive health promotion program is dependent upon various interdisciplinary teams working together toward a common goal. While Nurses represent the largest group...
Words: 1329 - Pages: 6
...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...
Words: 3075 - Pages: 13
...423: HEALTH PROMOTION COURSE MODULE Course Coordinator: Damaris Nelima Email:damarisnelima@yahoo.com Course facilitator:Dr. Rose Olayo Email:rose_olayo@yahoo.com 1 . What is Health Promotion? Health Promotion occurs upstream with the aim of preventing people falling in or being pushed. Downstream we have secondary (aim to detect disease early so that treatment can be started before irreversible damage occurs e.g. screening), and tertiary prevention and health care (management of established disease e.g. to minimise disability and prevent complications e.g. foot care for people with diabetes). Mid-stream we have primary prevention and health care, usually individual, for example attempts to reduce risk of contracting disease (educating smokers, vaccinating). And upstream we have health promotion including social policies and health promotion programmes, such as taxes on tobacco, smoke free legislation and advertising bans. This may include health education, which aims to reduce ill-health and increase positive health influencing people’s beliefs, attitudes and behaviour. Health Promotion has a dual role to prevent ill health and promote positive health. “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is, therefore...
Words: 10676 - Pages: 43
