Health Visitor and Environmental Job Roles
Becca Teasdale
Task 5
In this task I will be talking about two job roles within a care setting that aims to promote health, the two job roles I will be talking about are health visitors and environmental health officers.
Health promotion involves three overlapping areas of activity; these are health education, health promotion and health protection. For example drug education in schools would come under health education, seat belt law come under health protection and immunisations would come under health prevention. Health education is giving people information for example the dangers and consequences of smoking, this allows people to then go on and make their own life choices whether that’s to risk smoking or to stop/not smoke. Some people may make their own life choices around there beliefs and religion. Health prevention is broke down into three areas, these are primary which is to avoid and remove any chances of actually getting a disease/illness, this could involve talks such as a drugs and alcohol talk to young people in schools or posters and campaigns about disease. The secondary part is to diagnose any disease/illness early to prevent it getting any worse and causing damage, this would be by recognising symptoms at an early stage for example taking someone’s blood pressure. The secondary section may include support groups for people. The third section is called ‘tertiary prevention’, this is where someone has already been diagnosed, this stage helps to reduce and control the disease/illness for example diabetes needs to be controlled by different ways such as pills, needles and eating the correct foods. According to target jobs ‘health visitors are registered nurses who are responsible for the promotion of health and social well-being and for the assessment of individual and community health needs within a specific practice area’
‘Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health’, states
Task 5
In this task I will be talking about two job roles within a care setting that aims to promote health, the two job roles I will be talking about are health visitors and environmental health officers.
Health promotion involves three overlapping areas of activity; these are health education, health promotion and health protection. For example drug education in schools would come under health education, seat belt law come under health protection and immunisations would come under health prevention. Health education is giving people information for example the dangers and consequences of smoking, this allows people to then go on and make their own life choices whether that’s to risk smoking or to stop/not smoke. Some people may make their own life choices around there beliefs and religion. Health prevention is broke down into three areas, these are primary which is to avoid and remove any chances of actually getting a disease/illness, this could involve talks such as a drugs and alcohol talk to young people in schools or posters and campaigns about disease. The secondary part is to diagnose any disease/illness early to prevent it getting any worse and causing damage, this would be by recognising symptoms at an early stage for example taking someone’s blood pressure. The secondary section may include support groups for people. The third section is called ‘tertiary prevention’, this is where someone has already been diagnosed, this stage helps to reduce and control the disease/illness for example diabetes needs to be controlled by different ways such as pills, needles and eating the correct foods. According to target jobs ‘health visitors are registered nurses who are responsible for the promotion of health and social well-being and for the assessment of individual and community health needs within a specific practice area’
‘Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health’, states
Bibliography: - The free dictionary. (2013). Skill. Available: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/skill. Last accessed 26th feb 2013 ADD BIBLIOGRAPHY