Grace Kirigo Ngure 1301700 08NUR13 Health promotion is the process which enables people to gain control over their health determinants in order to improve their health and thereby be able to live an active and productive life. The ultimate objective of health promotion activities is to create prerequisites for a good life which includes physical‚ mental‚ social and spiritual health and considers people in their social and cultural context taking into account the material and economical resources
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Importance of Health Promotion Health of an individual can be defined as a state free of illness‚ having a healthy behavior and a good state of mind. Health care industry is now focused on preventing illness by promoting wellness enhancing strategies which nurses have an important role to play as care provider and educator. Levels of preventive care are primary prevention – health education‚ immunization and fitness activities‚ secondary prevention – diagnosis and prompt intervention and tertiary
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What is distinguishing factors between the the contemporary views of health promotion versus the historical view? How and why did these difference develop? Historical health promotion dealt with protecting the community from infectious diseases‚ providing safe water and reducing environmental threats which was normally done by the Government or organizations like World health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Emphasis were on mass vaccination against preventable
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Health Promotion: Giving up Smoking in Pregnancy Introduction The object of this assignment is to critically appraise a health promotion initiative related to midwifery practice. The initiative chosen is a NHS Health Scotland leaflet entitled ’Smoking: giving up during pregnancy: a guide for pregnant women who want to stop smoking’ (NHS Health Scotland 2003). It will be referred to as the ’initiative’ or the ’leaflet’ throughout this assignment. The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified that
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and in preventing illness in proper hand washing techniques. Health promotion is the practice of allowing individuals to increase their own control over‚ and to improve their health. The purpose of health promotion is to monitor and evaluate
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Health Promotion Plan for African American Adults at Risk for Coronary Heart Disease Community Nursing: NUR 3634 Abstract Coronary heart disease affects a disproportionate amount of African Americans (CDC‚ 2010a)‚ yet there are modifiable risk factors that can reduce the risk of this disease. These modifiable risk factors include high blood pressure and high cholesterol. This health promotion plan involves a community-based strategy that targets African Americans by offering primary and
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Explain three different approaches to health education. (P1) In this assignment I am going to explain three different approaches to health education‚ whilst doing so I will explain which is most likely to be successful. Health education is an aspect of health promotion which relates to educating people about good health and how to develop and support it. The role of mass media The first approach I am going to explain is Mass media. Mass media is communication; it is the media that is intended for
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How can a health practitioner facilitate behaviour change in an individual with a health-risk behaviour? Health practitioners play an essential role in facilitating behaviour change in individuals that display health risk behaviours. Health practitioners are exposed to the aftermath of risky health behaviours everyday. Leading a lifestyle full of health risk behaviours is the most common cause of death and disease within most countries. For example‚ smoking is a significant modifiable behaviour
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Health Promotion: A comparison between Primary‚ Secondary and Tertiary Levels Brandy Floyd Grand Canyon University: Family-centered Health Promotion NRS-429V September 9‚ 2013 Health Promotion: A comparison between Primary‚ Secondary and Tertiary Levels Health Promotion and prevention can be used interchangeably in that as a society we need to start promoting healthier lifestyles now in order to prevent disease and poor health later in life. This interchange of terms is seen in the definition
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Nursing and Health Promotion Casey M. Smith Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V April 21‚ 2013 The World Health Organization (WHO) describes health promotion as allowing society to control elements of personal health‚ through intelligent‚ healthy decisions. Health promotion improves the resourcefulness of people to be accountable‚ and the capacity of organizations and communities to guide the determinants of health. Due to the multitude of determinants of health‚ health promotion needs cooperation
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