Nola Pender

Priscillia Mercy Danapaul 17326573 Health is wealth. Health is the most precious possession of an individual and one must take optimal care of it. In today’s world, there is a rising tide of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. With the increasing cost of health care in Singapore, it is quite a big amount to spend. But to cut cost, a change in lifestyle and health-promoting behavior is essential for the public, especially in adolescence. World Health Organisation defines Health Promotion as a process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” (WHO, 2005).Changes in one’s actions or behaviors can direct to the person’s overall well-being as well as protection from disease and chronic illnesses. And nurses have always been playing a big role in educating their patients on how to manage illness, communicating their knowledge and directing them towards a healthy life. As the same way, Nola J Pender, a Nursing professor, developed the Health Promotion Model to assess influences on health-promoting behaviors. Pender defined health as not only the absence of disease, but a positive dynamic state of well being (Pender, 1996). I am a school health staff nurse working in Health Promotion Board. My target groups are school-going children in primary schools. We conduct health screening and give health education to the children from aged seven to twelve years old. I chose to write on Nola Pender as there is a specific application to my area of health promotion.

Pender, N.J., Murdaugh, C. L., & Parsons, M.A. (2011).
Health Promotion in Nursing Practice (6th Edition). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Garcia, A.W., Pender, N.J., Antonakos, C.L., & Ronis, D.L. (1998).