Explain to individuals about the importance of a healthy diet and encourage and support them to choose healthy options and alternatives.…
This paper received all 4s on the grading rubric. I mention this so you can eval the paper appropriately. I hope it helps.…
Beginning in 1980, the Untied States initiated a 10-year plan delineating marked national health goals considered achievable during each 10-year period. The dynamism of these initiatives includes the integration of the medical care with health promotion and education, disease prevention, integration of individual, and community health care needs, and provision of increased access to integrated health care services. The identified health goals established from the coalition of the various federal and state organizations in subservience of the leadership of the United States (US) Surgeon General. Healthy People (HP) 2010 inaugurated in 2000 identified important tools to help improve…
Measels, also known as rubeola, is a viral respiratory illness. Although vaccination is available in developed countries, it remains one of the leading causes of death among children worldwide (CDC, 2013). The degree of contagiousness of measles contributes to this alarming statistic. The first sign of measles is often an extremely elevated temperature and lasts for approximately one week. Other signs and symptoms include cold-like symptoms such as cough, watery eyes, and a runny nose. Also, small white lesions are visible on the interior of the mouth. A hallmark indication of the measles respiratory virus is the rash presenting on the face and neck, which spreads with time to the limbs. There is no antiviral for the measles at present time. However, a definitive treatment has been identified. Vitamin A supplements, two doses given 24 hours apart, have been proven to reduce the number of deaths resulting from this virus by half (WHO, 2014). The deaths that do result from the measles virus are typically due to complications resulting from the virus.…
Shi, L., & Singh, D. A. (2012). Delivering health care in America: A systems approach (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Jones & Barlet.…
I will teach a class about healthy nutrition like dairy, grain, protein, vegetable, and fruits and I will make them understand about safety…
The source I chose for category 1 is Healthy People 2010 Objectives, found at the website, www.healthypeople.gov. This URL is the official website where you can find all the information about Healthy People 2010. Healthy People 2010 is a list of objectives for our nation that is set every ten years, that we will try to meet. The objectives are all health related and cover a wide range of different health aspects. Specifically, the list includes 28 different focus areas with a total of 467 objectives. All of which, you can find with detailed information while navigating through this website. The idea behind Healthy People is simple. It is to identify the most significant and preventable threats to health in our nation and establish our goals to reduce these threats. In other words, its goal is to raise awareness and…
The purpose of this article is to distinguish the various evaluation terms and methods into conceptual levels of evaluation terminology, being evaluation approaches, evaluation purposes, evaluation methods, and evaluation design. It also looks at health promotion evaluation in a New Zealand context.…
Nurses are to advocate for their patients, educate them and raise awareness in regards to their health and well-being. Nursing care is aimed towards all aspects of health care including prevention as well as treatment of disease. Prevention has become a major focus in the nursing industry and health promotion is an important responsibility of nurses. This paper will discuss how health promotion is defined and what purpose is serves in the nursing profession. It will review the evolving nursing roles and different ways to implement health promotion, as well as cover the different levels of health promotion, which are geared towards the disease they target.…
‘Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health’ (WHO, 1986). Health here is viewed as a resource and health promotion is aimed at increasing the control of people over this resource and improve equity for all. Over the years, health promotion campaigns have taken the individual and lifestyle approach and not considered the social determinants that could be the cause of people’s health status. The World Health Organisation’s Ottawa Charter and Durie’s Te Pae Mahutonga instead looks at the broader holistic picture and uses intersectoral collaboration. Using multiple health promotion strategies is more effective, achieving better and more sustainable population health outcomes. There…
Aim :To empower first time mothers who choose to breastfeed, to initiate and sustain breastfeeding exclusively for at least 3 months.…
One common definition of health used by many health care providers would include the idea that health is being free from disease or being in a state of wholeness: mentally, physically and spiritually (Stamler, Yiu, & Dosani, 2015, p.135). As a community health nurse, it is crucially important to take note of the community strengths and weaknesses to have a full understanding of the needs within the community. Completing an assessment of health determinants gives the health care practitioner an overview of major influences on how we can approach health promotion and identify the specific factors that affect the individual, family and community (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tobacco and Hanson, 2015). The objective of this proposal is to identify how to support and strengthen the…
Describe the population/community in terms of their demographics (age, gender, ethnicity, etc.) and their current health status (mortality, illnesses, etc.). How do you gather this data? Infant mortality is a huge issue affecting public health in the United States. For the past three years the maternal mortality rate in Miami-Dade County has been increasing, due to racial disparities. The percentage of preterm birth and births of low birth weight and very low birth weight babies are higher in Miami-Dade County than in city in Florida.…
The many barriers involved in accessing healthcare have impacted the United States significantly. The cost of healthcare in today’s society is one of the most consequential barriers. But that is only one barrier to the problem, some more key barriers include lack of reassurance, poor access to services and nonfinancial barriers. “Some difficulties that involved the cost of healthcare access is that some Americans did not get needed medical care or delayed medical care because they were worried about the cost or worried their health insurance would not cover their healthcare needs, and this was due to their financial status. Some more barriers comprise of Americans being too busy with work or other commitments, not being able to get an appointment…
Millions of American’s are affected by mental health illnesses. As a nurse I understand that mental health illnesses have no respect of person. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that approximately 61.5 million Americans are affected by mental illness in a given year, and almost 13.6 million individuals live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, depression, or bipolar disorder (National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2013). http://www.nami.org/factsheets/mentalillness_factsheet.pdf. Further, data revealed that 20 percent of youth ages 13 to 18 years old have experienced severe mental disorders within a given year, and about 13 percent of these populations are pediatrics patients that range between the ages of ages 8 to 15 years old. The United States spends nearly $193.2 billion per year on mental health diseases (NAMI, 2013) proving that mental health illnesses are a major public health concern. Crises around the world have caused a greater shift in the efforts to promote wellness within communities. Public health priorities are more geared towards communities working together to combat the devastating tragedies that continue to affect many schools and communities within the United States. It has been estimated that by the year 2020 depression will be the second largest killer, and many communities and schools have already begin to experience the horrific repercussions. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to develop a health advocacy campaign that will more readily identify mental health illnesses as well as explore realistic methods to promote policies as well as improve community health outcomes.…