H1 Health Promotion

Health promotion is defined as the art and science of motivating people to enhance their lifestyle to achieve complete health, not just the absence of disease (Tucker et al. 2009). The benefits of adopting a healthy lifestyle include enhancing the quality of life, increasing longevity, decreasing healthcare costs, and increasing productivity by decreasing illness. Health promotion can be used in different ways to contribute to the prevention of many diseases, which is also capable of creating positive feelings for health and vitality. They usually consist of nonmedical intervention, one example being of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign to create a healthier lifestyle by eating healthier and exercising. Interventions such as these may require
There are three types of health promotion: primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary health promotion, also known as specific protection, is used when it is available, or, when health promoting changes in the environment, workplace, and other areas are not fully realized or effective. This form of health promotion is usually created for a specific disease or type of injury. Examples of primary health promotion would be immunizations against specific diseases, pharmacologic treatment, and use of seat belts or helmets in automobiles and motorcycles. Many health promotions not only provide protection for their respective causes, but also contribute to the larger goal of promoting a healthier lifestyle. An example of this would be the promotion of vaccines for viruses such as the H1N1 flu. This health promotion not only helps people from coming down with this sickness, but also spreads ways to keep clean, such as washing hands and covering noses when sneezing. Secondary health promotions, or prevention, is used for the detection and caring for pre symptomatic diseases, and the prevention of it progressing to a symptomatic disease. Screenings are the main ways of doing this, such as a mammography and colonoscopy for cancer, or, blood pressure screens and lipid testing for cardiac risk screenings. The differences of primary and secondary prevention can be indiscernible at times, and depends on the diseases, risks, and their antecedent. Tertiary prevention refers to the treatment
Women in a specific communities have benefited from using proven methods of health promotion with the help of public health nurses. One of the research method used guide nurses is The Omaha System. This system uses the nursing process as a basis to formulate a framework for studying a specific group in order to influence their health promotion methods. The system uses assessment or problem classification scheme, care plans and services or intervention scheme and evaluation (client change) or problem rating scale for