Health Promotion Chigo Ononye Grand Canyon University NRS 429 V December 10‚ 2012 Health Promotion Individual behavior and state of mind has been noted to have an impact on disease prevention and its associated death. These factors being put into consideration in health promotion puts a demand on the individual to make changes in many aspects of life. Nurses play important role in health promotion by intervening in actions
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Health Promotion Obesity as a side effect in medication World Health Organisation (WHO 2012) states that health promotion is about empowering individuals to take control of their own health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. The author will be focusing on a lady with a long mental health problems and has recently had medication changed to Clozapine; as a result she has gradually gained a lot of weight. The patient
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion in Nursing According to the World Health Organization (WHO)‚ health promotion “enables people to improve control over the determinants of health and as a result to improve their own health‚ and able to make healthy choice” (Denise and Suzanne‚ p. 87). Historically‚ health promotion deal with protecting society from contagious disease‚ such as to providing safe water and reduce environments hazards‚ and treat of preventable disease rather than preventing
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING PRACTICE Health Promotion in Nursing Practice Debbie Eckert Grand Canyon University August 8‚ 2011 Health Promotion in Nursing Practice One of health promotion’s many definitions is the process of enabling people to gain control of and to improve their overall health. This process includes activities to sustain and increase personal wellbeing. Some of these activities to sustain wellbeing would be to not smoke‚ maintain fitness with exercising
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INTRODUCTION The health promotion model (HPM) proposed by Nola J Pender (1982; revised‚ 1996) was designed to be a “complementary counterpart to models of health protection.” It defines health as a positive dynamic state not merely the absence of disease. Health promotion is directed at increasing a client’s level of well being. The health promotion model describes the multi dimensional nature of persons as they interact within their environment to pursue health. The model focuses on following three
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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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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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