Health Promotion and Models
1. Introduction
It is widely recognised that disease prevention and the associated mortality is vastly dependent on the behavioural and psychological factors (Berkman & Kawachi, 2000) Health promotion stems from these factors whereby focussing on the individual’s behaviour by influencing changes in variety of aspects such as families, communities work places and eventually encouraging individuals to adopt healthy practices (Green, 1984). The role of a nurse in health promotion and education is considered as a key by numerous researchers and policy initiatives from the government to promote health comprehending the essentiality of health promotion (Norton, 1998). The present essay elucidates the effectiveness of health promotion within the context of health belief model (HBM) and behaviour change model (BCM) and critically analyzes it with the Whiteheads model (2001), where the nurse plays a role as a traditional health educator.
2. Case Study
As a student nurse, I have been actively involved in promoting it to my patient Duggie Snowdon, aged 21, the patient on appearance was substantially obese, and on examination it was found out that he had a BMI of 26. (See appendix 1.1 for full case study).
3. Health Belief Model (HBM)
The health professionals should focus on catering the needs of the patient beyond their practical tasks therefore, efforts to better understand the patients and their conditions are crucial, in order to provide effective care (Grainger, 2008).Furthermore, Harsmen et al. (2005) points that mutual understanding between a practitioner and patients is key in rendering quality care. Kleinman’s theory states that, it is important to account the patient and practitioner views on a decisive clinical agreement on patient’s health. As a practitioner the visual and engaging problem that I observed in my patient was obesity which may lead to detrimental effects in the future. In enumerating health education and health promotion to my patient the
It is widely recognised that disease prevention and the associated mortality is vastly dependent on the behavioural and psychological factors (Berkman & Kawachi, 2000) Health promotion stems from these factors whereby focussing on the individual’s behaviour by influencing changes in variety of aspects such as families, communities work places and eventually encouraging individuals to adopt healthy practices (Green, 1984). The role of a nurse in health promotion and education is considered as a key by numerous researchers and policy initiatives from the government to promote health comprehending the essentiality of health promotion (Norton, 1998). The present essay elucidates the effectiveness of health promotion within the context of health belief model (HBM) and behaviour change model (BCM) and critically analyzes it with the Whiteheads model (2001), where the nurse plays a role as a traditional health educator.
2. Case Study
As a student nurse, I have been actively involved in promoting it to my patient Duggie Snowdon, aged 21, the patient on appearance was substantially obese, and on examination it was found out that he had a BMI of 26. (See appendix 1.1 for full case study).
3. Health Belief Model (HBM)
The health professionals should focus on catering the needs of the patient beyond their practical tasks therefore, efforts to better understand the patients and their conditions are crucial, in order to provide effective care (Grainger, 2008).Furthermore, Harsmen et al. (2005) points that mutual understanding between a practitioner and patients is key in rendering quality care. Kleinman’s theory states that, it is important to account the patient and practitioner views on a decisive clinical agreement on patient’s health. As a practitioner the visual and engaging problem that I observed in my patient was obesity which may lead to detrimental effects in the future. In enumerating health education and health promotion to my patient the
References: http://www.cdc.gov/std/program/community.pdf Christakis N A, Fowler JH (2007) The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years