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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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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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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Syree Davis Eng.203 Nov. 1 2012 Ms.tody The Red Lotus of Chastity and The Thousand and One Nights The females in The Red Lotus of Chastity and The Thousand and One Nights struggled against ideas of chastity that were created by a male dominated society. They had to over come the cultural ideals of what women should be and do. Devasmita and Shahrazad both decided to take matters into their own hands and not fall to male authority or their tricks. The themes of these novels are the feminine
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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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The ’Lotus’ is scientifically known as ’Nelumbo Nucifera’. It is the national flower of India. It is a sacred flower and occupies a unique position in the art and mythology of ancient India and has been an auspicious symbol of Indian culture since time immemorial. Lotus flower is found only in two colours that are pink and white. The flower grows in murky waters and rises on a long stalk above the surface to bloom glorious. It is a beautiful flower which symbolises divinity‚ fertility‚ wealth
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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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able offer individualized education in health promotion. The nurse has to understand that health means different things to different people and there are many factors that influence this thought process. Some of the factors that have to be taken into consideration are culture‚ age‚ sex‚ and education level‚ social‚ economic situations and varied learning styles. In addition to the variables that must be examined‚ there are also four different concepts of health and they ways they are viewed. The
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