Learning Styles
Health Promotion-Review of literature Jacqueline Drummond
Grand Canyon University
Family Centered Health Promotion
Janet Arnold
September 8TH, 2013 Health promotion includes identifying obstacles, teaching as well as encouraging and educating positive health behaviors. It is promoting awareness so health care professionals will empower individuals they come in contact with, either in the community, and elsewhere. They must strive to give uninterrupted attention and time to educate which will contribute to effective learning. However, health promotion goes beyond providing health teaching it will also increases the vitality and stimulate a sense of well-being.
Nurses are trained to encourage health promotion in the process of fostering awareness, convince people to change, influence attitudes and provide resources to make alternatives to optimize mental health, physical, social environment. Health promotion is commonly referred to as health education. Either way, health education is a way of teaching people about their health and to have people adopt healthier lifestyles resulting in longer and healthier lives. Nurse teaches on many different levels. There are three levels of health promotion such as primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. They all tie in with the health promotion belief which is defined as: Healthy People 2010 has goals that include promoting quality of life and eliminating health disparities. The Health Belief Model recognizes an individual’s perceived susceptibility to disease, perceived severity of disease, perceived benefits of certain behaviors in reducing disease, and perceived barriers, such as cost, to preventive action. Nurses and other health care professionals are in a unique position to promote health in these vulnerable populations by using the Health Belief Model. Nurses help people to make health determinants and lifestyle changes, encourage health improvements in the lives of people as well as obtaining positive
Grand Canyon University
Family Centered Health Promotion
Janet Arnold
September 8TH, 2013 Health promotion includes identifying obstacles, teaching as well as encouraging and educating positive health behaviors. It is promoting awareness so health care professionals will empower individuals they come in contact with, either in the community, and elsewhere. They must strive to give uninterrupted attention and time to educate which will contribute to effective learning. However, health promotion goes beyond providing health teaching it will also increases the vitality and stimulate a sense of well-being.
Nurses are trained to encourage health promotion in the process of fostering awareness, convince people to change, influence attitudes and provide resources to make alternatives to optimize mental health, physical, social environment. Health promotion is commonly referred to as health education. Either way, health education is a way of teaching people about their health and to have people adopt healthier lifestyles resulting in longer and healthier lives. Nurse teaches on many different levels. There are three levels of health promotion such as primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. They all tie in with the health promotion belief which is defined as: Healthy People 2010 has goals that include promoting quality of life and eliminating health disparities. The Health Belief Model recognizes an individual’s perceived susceptibility to disease, perceived severity of disease, perceived benefits of certain behaviors in reducing disease, and perceived barriers, such as cost, to preventive action. Nurses and other health care professionals are in a unique position to promote health in these vulnerable populations by using the Health Belief Model. Nurses help people to make health determinants and lifestyle changes, encourage health improvements in the lives of people as well as obtaining positive