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 Reflection In this reflection I will be using Gibbs Model of Reflection (Jasper M‚ 2003). I will be talking about a patient who was advised to give up smoking‚ as part of promoting health to the patient but not directly linked to their illness and treatment. What Happened. I had a patient come into the ward who had had surgery‚ but this patient was overweight and a smoker which always effects the procedure and recovery. During the nights they had to sleep with a machine to
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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 In this reflection essay I will discuss about health promotion activity which took place during my placement in St’Clare Centre ‚Glassnevin‚ Ballymun. Health promotion allows one to empower and educate individuals to make lifestyle choices and changes to promote their health and help prevent disease (Naidoo and Wills 2000). This can be challenging when individual health beliefs differ. According to Whitehead (2004) the concept changes with demands‚ it is delivered by health workers
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Health Promotion in Primary‚ Secondary‚ and Tertiary Care Nursing Monica V. Poehner Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion November 10‚ 2013 Health Promotion in Primary‚ Secondary‚ and Tertiary Care Nursing Among the many aspects of nursing care‚ health promotion as become one of the largest and most important. As health and illness has evolved‚ the need for education and prevention has greatly increased. Standing at the forefront in multiple settings
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prevention measures include activities that help avoid a given health care problem. Examples include passive and active immunization against disease as well as health protecting education and counseling promoting the use of automobile passenger restraints and bicycle helmets. Since successful primary prevention helps avoid the suffering‚ cost and burden associated with disease‚ it is typically considered the most cost-effective form of health care. Secondary prevention measures as those that identify
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According to Public Health Ontario‚ health promotion is the process of introducing a variety of social and environmental programs including promoting healthy behaviors‚ enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health (2015). This is an important concept for many people in todays society especially here in Ontario as it is reported by Statistics Canada that 52.6% of people are obese or overweight (2013). Health Promotion doesn’t only refer to obesity but the whole well-being
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