Promoting health in secondary schools Ruth Joyce Marilyn Toft and Eric Winstone The authors Ruth Joyce is County Adviser in Drugs and Health Education, Cambridge County Council, Cambridge, UK. Marilyn Toft is Training Co-ordinator at Lewisham Education Authority, Lewisham, UK. Eric Winstone is Deputy Principal of Sir Harry Smith Community College, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK. Abstract Describes the Promoting Health in Secondary Schools project, which was commissioned by the Health Education
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Introduction Mental health is one of components to enhance healthy lives among individuals. According to WHO (2014), mental health can be defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential can cope with the normal stresses of life. As Hong Kong is a fast-moving city, people easily feel stressful. In recent years, there are more suicidal incidents occurred in Hong Kong and within Wah Fu Estate. Most of causes of the incidents were related to mental health e.g A 35-years-old
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concepts. The fast food industry is growing at an annual rate of 3 percent, while the fresh juice and smoothie sector is growing at an annual rate estimated at 30 percent. Jamba Juice offer customers a healthy, quick service food concept ideal for health conscious customers. Jamba Juice is a chain of specialty restaurants. As the name suggests, Jamba Juice is retailer that sells a variety of different types of juice drinks and smoothies. JJ's goal is to provide customers with a healthy alternative
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2-2 Accessible 5.2-3 Substantial 5.2-4 Differentiable 5.2-5 Actionable 5.3 Targeting 5.4-1 Importance 5.4-2 Distinctiveness 5.4-3 Preemptive 5.5 Positioning 5.6 Recommendation 6. Marketing Mix 6.1 Product 6.2 Place 6.3 Price 6.4 Promotion 6.5 Recommendation 1.Introduction: Company, Brand and Product 1.1 Company The company chosen was Veganburg, which was conceptualized and opened its door of its first outlet to consumer on 10 October 2010. Veganburg works on fast food concept
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Family Health Assessment A family health assessment is an important tool in formulating a health care plan for a family. This paper will discuss the nurse’s role in family assessment and how this task is performed. A nurse has an important role in health promotion. To perform these tasks the author has chosen a nuclear family. By the use of family focused open ended questions, 11 functional health patterns were covered. This principle is known as the Gordon’s functional health patterns.
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Health promotion Genital Chlamydia is a sexually bacterial infection that is asymptomatic in most infected individuals and is related with short- term and long- term morbidity. It is caused through unprotected intercourse with another person with Chlamydia and also through contact with other mucous membranes found in the eyes and mouth. The infection mainly affects men in the urethra and for women it is both the endocervix and urethra. Furthermore, the rectum, pharynx and conjunctiva can also
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Marjorie Gordon (1987) proposed functional health patterns as a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing data base. A family’s functional health patterns evolve from a client_enviromental interaction. Each pattern is a expression of biopsychosocial integration.There is no one pattern which can be understood without the knowledge of other patterns. Functional health patterns are influenced by biological, developmental, cultural, social, and spiritual factors.A functional pattern represents a
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not have the sense of well-being she expected because she was not eating the appropriate foods. Using Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model, the nurse is able to intervene in critical areas to educate and further encourage the desired lifestyle change. The patient was able to gain the necessary tools to make the changes in her nutrition. Keyword(s): Nola Pender, Health Promotion Model Nutritional Self-Assessment There is more to eating to become healthier than just eating a smaller amount
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Like any other profession, nursing is also built on certain important concepts. These concepts include ‘person, environment, health and nursing practice’. Combinations of all these concepts are known as metaparadigm of nursing. American Nurses Association defines nursing as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families
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Katherine Kolcaba theory of comfort has created a new level of nursing. Promotion of comfort exists in all areas of nursing. Comfort is desired by patients of all ages and illnesses. There is a high importance in fulfilling comfort needs of the patient is order to achieve optimal health benefit and promote future health seeking behaviors. Keywords: Comfort, outcomes, quality, safety, and health promotion Comfort Theory was introduced by Katherine Kolcaba in 1994 (McEwen & Wills, 2014
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