Health Promotion Model Essay
The incidence of obesity is increasing worldwide, “more than 1 billion adults overweight at least 300 million of them clinically obese.” (PUSKA, NISHIDA and PORTER, 2003). Obesity reduce the overall quality of life. It poses a major risk for serious diet related chronic diseases, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and some types of cancer and it is associated with poorer mental health outcomes and premature death. Enjoying a better diet to reduce obesity and increase the overall quality of life is not just down to individual willpower. And often the healthy food choice is not the easiest choice. Health-care professionals developed many different model that guide health promotion interventions. one of these model is
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Tannahill’s model of health promotion (Downie et al – 1990). This model show health promotion as being made up of three overlapping approaches: health education, prevention, and health protection. Using these approaches may help to reduce the barriers that prevent obese people from accessing nutritious food and increase their knowledge to make it easier for them to maintain a healthy eating and life style. health education is the first approach of the Tannahill’s model. it could be applied by encouraging students to try different vegetables and fruit through tasting sessions or offering cooking session to learn them how to cook easy and healthy meals also teach them an easy and short exercises to make it easier for them to exercise alone at their houses without having to join a gym or buying a sports machines. The second approach is prevention which could be applied by measuring body mass to determine if the person in the risk zone of obesity or not.
The third approach is health protection and it could be applied by prevent building unhealthy fast food chains around schools, playground and any popular place where people under 18 years spend their time, or by enforcing unhealthy fast food restaurants to reduce the amount of salt and fat in their meals to the recommended amount. The overlapping between these three approach will produce a new approach which are health education for preventive health protection, and could be applied by lobbying for health star labelling legislation, which is a system include nutrient information and use a star rating scale of half a star to 5 stars. The more nutritional value food has, the more stars it gets. Preventive health education approach is a result from overlapping of the health education and prevention approaches, it could be applied by healthy foods and unhealthy foods advice and information sessions to increase awareness in obese and non-obese people. Preventive health protection approach is a …show more content…
result from overlapping of the health protection and prevention approaches, it could be applied by Ensuring proper food handling and increase the availability of healthy food and water supplies. The last approach is the result of overlapping between health education and health protection approaches, which is health education aimed at positive health protection approach. it could be applied by pushing for a ban on unhealthy food advertising. Although this model is helpful to illustrate the linkages between health education, prevention, and health protection.
it does not recognize the overlaps between the constituent parts of health promotion. Also harteveldt (2008) criticizes a medical approach that it fails to treat patients as individuals but rather as collections of symptoms, failing to acknowledge social, environmental and psychological
factors. This model expects is to show its utility in providing a basis knowledge of healthy eating habit and progress in accelerating the prevention of obesity. The Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives evaluation explains that an epidemic that has developed over 30 years is not going to be solved overnight. Collaborative effort from all parts of society must continue to make a real difference (Balsdon, 2009). So these expectations may take time to appears. To measure the evaluation, we compare the number of obese people before and after appeling this model if the number of obese people decrees, it means that this model is successful. Also the prevention and control of obesity is not limited on this model. A lot could be done and already have been done to prevent this disease.
Tannahill’s model of health promotion (Downie et al – 1990). This model show health promotion as being made up of three overlapping approaches: health education, prevention, and health protection. Using these approaches may help to reduce the barriers that prevent obese people from accessing nutritious food and increase their knowledge to make it easier for them to maintain a healthy eating and life style. health education is the first approach of the Tannahill’s model. it could be applied by encouraging students to try different vegetables and fruit through tasting sessions or offering cooking session to learn them how to cook easy and healthy meals also teach them an easy and short exercises to make it easier for them to exercise alone at their houses without having to join a gym or buying a sports machines. The second approach is prevention which could be applied by measuring body mass to determine if the person in the risk zone of obesity or not.
The third approach is health protection and it could be applied by prevent building unhealthy fast food chains around schools, playground and any popular place where people under 18 years spend their time, or by enforcing unhealthy fast food restaurants to reduce the amount of salt and fat in their meals to the recommended amount. The overlapping between these three approach will produce a new approach which are health education for preventive health protection, and could be applied by lobbying for health star labelling legislation, which is a system include nutrient information and use a star rating scale of half a star to 5 stars. The more nutritional value food has, the more stars it gets. Preventive health education approach is a result from overlapping of the health education and prevention approaches, it could be applied by healthy foods and unhealthy foods advice and information sessions to increase awareness in obese and non-obese people. Preventive health protection approach is a …show more content…
result from overlapping of the health protection and prevention approaches, it could be applied by Ensuring proper food handling and increase the availability of healthy food and water supplies. The last approach is the result of overlapping between health education and health protection approaches, which is health education aimed at positive health protection approach. it could be applied by pushing for a ban on unhealthy food advertising. Although this model is helpful to illustrate the linkages between health education, prevention, and health protection.
it does not recognize the overlaps between the constituent parts of health promotion. Also harteveldt (2008) criticizes a medical approach that it fails to treat patients as individuals but rather as collections of symptoms, failing to acknowledge social, environmental and psychological
factors. This model expects is to show its utility in providing a basis knowledge of healthy eating habit and progress in accelerating the prevention of obesity. The Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives evaluation explains that an epidemic that has developed over 30 years is not going to be solved overnight. Collaborative effort from all parts of society must continue to make a real difference (Balsdon, 2009). So these expectations may take time to appears. To measure the evaluation, we compare the number of obese people before and after appeling this model if the number of obese people decrees, it means that this model is successful. Also the prevention and control of obesity is not limited on this model. A lot could be done and already have been done to prevent this disease.