The Five Strategies For Health Promotion
According to the estimates on self reported data in Australia and the worldwide research from the Office of Health Economics, more than 5% of the Australian population who is aged 55 and over is suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and it is the 5th most common cause of death in Australia and will be 4th leading cause of death throughout the world by 2030 respectively. (Booker, 2010, AIHW, 2016) This essay will present the overview about the COPD clinical intervention in regards to effective managements and also discuss about the five strategies for health promotion illustrated in the Ottawa charter from published from WHO on nurse’s perspectives and guidance on their ends of professional responsibilities in an effort to alert
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It has been initiated in WA, which strictly prohibited smoking in WA government health facility premises for the best interest of the hospital staffs, visitors and clients by protecting them from the undesired secondhand smoke and to lower the harm originated from cigarette smoking by supporting safe smoke-free environments. (Government of South Australia, …show more content…
Based on Hurley and Matthews’s study (2007), it discovered approximately 4 per cent of the individuals who quit smoking can be prevented from experiencing the life threatening health condition, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory related illness and ultimately premature death than the others who continued to smoke for another decade. Moreover, there is irrefutable evidence that impose high tax on tobacco would result in increased price on tobacco product prices, which would not only drop the smoking rates but also reduce the smoking intensity in youth. Therefore, bring this issues into the clinical approach in primary healthcare setting, if the patient wishes to quit smoking or acquire information about smoking cessation as a result of extrinsic and intrinsic factors, the nurses would discuss about the possible support services and available anti-nicotine products and suggest nicotine, such like nicotine patch and/or different mixture of nicotine replacement. (Ross & Chaloupka, 2003; Carpenter & Cook, 2007; Department of Treasury,
It has been initiated in WA, which strictly prohibited smoking in WA government health facility premises for the best interest of the hospital staffs, visitors and clients by protecting them from the undesired secondhand smoke and to lower the harm originated from cigarette smoking by supporting safe smoke-free environments. (Government of South Australia, …show more content…
Based on Hurley and Matthews’s study (2007), it discovered approximately 4 per cent of the individuals who quit smoking can be prevented from experiencing the life threatening health condition, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory related illness and ultimately premature death than the others who continued to smoke for another decade. Moreover, there is irrefutable evidence that impose high tax on tobacco would result in increased price on tobacco product prices, which would not only drop the smoking rates but also reduce the smoking intensity in youth. Therefore, bring this issues into the clinical approach in primary healthcare setting, if the patient wishes to quit smoking or acquire information about smoking cessation as a result of extrinsic and intrinsic factors, the nurses would discuss about the possible support services and available anti-nicotine products and suggest nicotine, such like nicotine patch and/or different mixture of nicotine replacement. (Ross & Chaloupka, 2003; Carpenter & Cook, 2007; Department of Treasury,