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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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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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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the 1960s‚ concurrent with the growing attention on mental health‚ the promotion of community mental health centers became a major federal initiative after the U.S. passed the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act in 1963. The construction of mental health centers in local communities exploded. Their bold agenda in transitioning patients out of state psychiatric hospitals and into communities was aimed to promote more humane treatment and foster social
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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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ES Community Resources Erica Batchelor University of Phoenix BSHS 302 Jean Holtz June 15‚ 2009 Community Resources A variety of community resources are available in communities to help people. The resource available varies from dental‚ abuse counseling‚ homeless prevention and intervention‚ food program and help for skin cancer patients. However‚ language and monetary fund’s is a need in the community. Human services that people have in their lives goes beyond but not limited
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Argosy University | Assignment 3: Identifying Community Resources | Hannah Wood | 5/21/2012 | Firstly regarding my client that has agreed to substance abuse treatment for 30 days I discovered through research that the following programs would be recommended: The Orchard Recovery and Addiction Treatment Center located at 811 Grafton Road‚ Bowen Island‚ BC V0N 1G2 and available at http://www.orchardrecovery.com/. Provides “Detox‚ Primary Care (10-‚ 28- and 42-day residential treatment)
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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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