...Health Promotion Among Black or African American Population [Your Name] Grand Canyon University: Family-Centered Health Promotion(NRS-429V) January 10, 2016 Health Promotion Among Black or African American Population The Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2015) notes that “Starting in 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requires federal agencies to use a minimum of five race categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.” Each minority group differs in health status and disparities and health promotion. In this paper the writer will focus on a specific minority group, the Black or African Americans, and will compare the minority group’s current health status to the national average. Further the author will discuss which health disparities exist in this particular minority group and what health promotion means to them and then will discuss an a approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention that is the most effective given the unique needs of the minority group with an explanation of why it might be the most effective approach. The Black or African Americans make up 15.2% of the total United States population and consists of people of African American, Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean decent. It is the second largest minority population. The current health status of this minority group is continuing to get...
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...Comprehensive Health Promotion Candace Tiley GCU RN-BSN Family-Centered Health Promotion May 27, 2013 NRS-429V June 08, 2013 Comprehensive Health Promotion The purpose of this paper is to discuss the three tiers of Health Promotion which include, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary and how the three levels are applied. Other aspects that will be discussed will include how health promotion is defined, its purpose, and the nurses’ role and responsibility in health promotion. Several articles were pulled that discussed the application of the three varying levels of health promotion. The global goals according to the Healthy People Website include: The attainment of quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. Achieving health equity and eliminating disparities and improving the health of all groups of people. Creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all people, and promoting a quality life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages. (www.healthypeople.com) These goals encompass an individual’s Social Environment, Biologic and Genetic background, the Physical Environment in which they live and work, and the Health Services that they receive along the way. (www.healthypeople.com) The delivery of a comprehensive health promotion program is dependent upon various interdisciplinary teams working together toward a common goal. While Nurses represent the largest group...
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...Health Promotion in Nursing Marcus Botts Grand Canyon University Health Promotion in Nursing In its most simple definition health promotion is the process of facilitating individuals, groups, and/or communities control their own health. There is a strong compatibility between health promotion and occupational therapy with the earliest discussions dating back more than fifty years ago. The idea of health promotion to prevent illness was highlighted internationally in 1978 at an international Conference on Primary Health Care. The Declaration of Alma-Ata expressed the need for immediate action by all governments, health care workers and developers, as well as the work community to promote and protect the health of people worldwide. (Health Promotion: Future occupational therapy in an ageing New Zealand, p36, 2012). In 1986, the World Health Organization (WHO), released the Ottawa Charter, which is perhaps, the most important document in the field of health promotion. It provides five principles to guide health promotion activities: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and re-orienting health care services toward prevention of illness and promotion of health. These principles provide a vision to which occupational therapy health promotion services should be aligned. (Health Promotion: Future occupational therapy in an ageing New Zealand, p36, 2012). As it relates to health care promotion...
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...Three Levels of Prevention in Health Promotion Sarah Hughes July 14, 2013 Nursing Practice and the Three Levels of Prevention in Health Promotion In nursing practice there are three levels of prevention in health promotion- primary, secondary, and tertiary. Prevention consists of not only preventing diseases and other ailments, but curing them and limiting their progression. Primary prevention consists of health promotion and specific protection. Secondary prevention consists of early diagnosis, timely treatment, and limiting disability. Tertiary prevention consists of restoration and rehabilitation (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 14). These three levels of prevention don’t necessarily flow from one into the next but do have a tendency to overlap. In three recent journal articles in nursing practice, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in health promotion are discussed. The primary prevention article discusses how effective motivational interviewing can be in health promotion. It mentions that motivational interviewing can help people understand their lifestyle problems and help them make the necessary changes in their lifestyle to see a positive outcome, which is having a healthy life. It also mentions that it takes a bit of work from the nurse to be able to master this skill and become effective at it. The secondary prevention article discusses secondary prevention of diabetes among health promoters. It discusses how health promoters are concerned that...
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...There is a vast need to promote “leaders” across various sectors of the general public, for example, among government, among communities and especially among individuals. Working together in larger numbers can have its positive or it’s negative on an organization. Such shared efforts require focus within the organizational or promote interdependencies. From my reading of “8 ways to build collaborative teams” by Gratton, L., & Erickson, T. J. (2007), the two factors that this learner is going to discuss assigning leaders who are both task and relationship oriented and supporting a strong sense of community and its impact it has on obesity. Assigning the right team leaders who are both task and relationship oriented are important elements for leader to successfully lead a society. “Some people have suggested that relationship-oriented leadership is most appropriate in complex terms, since people are more likely to share knowledge in an environment of trust and goodwill, while others have argued that a task orientation the ability to make objectives clear, to create a shared awareness of dimensions of the task and to provide monitoring and feedback is most important” Gratton & Erickson, 2007, p. 9). Having the right team leader, clearly make a significant difference in any organization. Obesity is considered to be the primary responsibility of society. We can deduce this from an important statement: “Citizens find legitimacy in dealing with their ‘personal’ and...
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...Health Promotion Literature Review Rebecca Turner Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V October 28, 2012 Health Promotion Literature Review Health promotion is a well-known term in nursing, with authors arguing that health promotion is central to the philosophy of nursing (Irvine, 2007). After studying three selected articles regarding the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health promotion, a similar theme referring to the role of the nurse to develop a more holistic understanding of health promotion in all stages of life and refreshing the concept of health promotion in order to advocate for the changing world’s environment, was apparent. Traditional health promotion preventions are defined by preventing disease, restoring health, and containing illness (Irvine, 2007). Today, health promotion is defined not just by focusing on health education, lifestyle and behavioral changes, but has undertaken a new paradigm, empowering clients by taking political and social action to promote health enhancing environments (Irvine, 2007). Nurse practice involves all stages of the lifespan in a variety of settings, ranging from the family home to communities (Whitehead, 2011). In these settings, nurse health promotion practice proposes developing personal skills, building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action and reorienting health services (Roden & Jarvis, 2012). Nurse roles and responsibilities are evolving by...
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...Person Environment Health Nursing Person Individual Family Community Population Environment Local/national/ global Ethical Legal Ecological Physical Sociocultural Political Economic Historical Technological Nursing Professional Attributes Professional Knowledge Professional (Caring) Practices Health A state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality and lifestyle -Potter & Perry, 2009 WHAT IS A CONCEPT? - abstract ideas or mental images of a phenomena (Kozier et al., 2010; Paley, 1996) - words that bring forth mental pictures of the properties and meanings of objects, events, or things (Kozier et al., 2010) WHAT IS A CONCEPT? “abstractions” (Norris, 1982) “mental formulations” (Chinn & Kramer, 1991) “mental images” (Meleis, 1985) “words describing mental images (Fawcett, 1989) “have meanings” (Allan, 1993) “have usages” (Rush & Ouellet, 1993) “have definitions” (Brown, 1993) Metaparadigm Concepts: Person Environment Nursing Health Concepts evolve out of impressions, perceptions or experiences…a mental image of reality framed by the individual’s perception or experience (Meleis, 1985) Classifications of Health Conceptualizations 1) Stability oriented 2) Actualization oriented 3) Combined Actualization and Stability Oriented Historical Approaches to Health in Canada 1) Medical Approach Stability orientation to health Emphasis is medical...
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...The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is a medical model that moves away from the typical issue of disease treatment and focuses on health promotion. Developed by Lawrence W. Green, this model has been applied in many Western countries in the improvement of health. PRECEDE (Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation) is the part of the model that helps in the development of various public health initiatives and programs. PROCEED (Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Educational and Environmental Development), on the other hand, serves as a guide to the effective implementation of the various programs that are created using PRECEDE. With regards to using the PRECEDE-PROCEED model in designing an educational program aimed at promoting health for families with school-aged children, the nine phases of the model will be used to produce outstanding results. The first phase is the social assessment phase, where the current social habits and practices of families with school-aged children is evaluated. This assessment helps determine what the existing health practices are, the current quality of life, and the health needs of these families. The second phase involves the epidemiological assessment. According to Webster’s Dictionary, epidemiology is “that branch of medicine which studies the incidence and distribution of disease in a population, and uses such information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and methods for control...
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...The Transtheoretical Model I. Introduction A. History of TTM B. Why the TTM is used for health promotion Thesis - The Transtheoretical Model is and will continue to be one of the most popular in the behavior change field due to its uniqueness and effectiveness. II. Transtheoretical Model A. Overview of the TTM B. Constructs of TTM III. Journal Article w| Transtheoretical Model A. How constructs are applied B. Critique on the model Shaquia Lewis UIN: 00965263 CRN: 29315 I pledge to support the Honor System of Old Dominion University. I will refrain from any form of academic dishonesty or deception, such as cheating or plagiarism. I am aware that as a member of the academic community it is my responsibility to turn in all suspected violations of the Honor Code. I will report to a hearing if summoned. The Transtheoretical Model The Transtheoretical Model has tremendously helped the health field progress to more inclusive approaches to research and other practices [2]. In the 1970s, James Prochaska laid the foundations for this model. In the 1990s, two scales were developed using the model [2]. This model is used for health promotion because it enables people to make behavioral changes and improve their health. The Transtheoretical Model is and will continue to be one of the most popular in the behavior change field due to its uniqueness and effectiveness. The Transtheoretical Model has six constructs with two being broken...
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...Maternal awareness of health promotion, parental and preschool childhood obesity (6, n=200)=17.32, p=0.008). Maternal awareness of health promotion on healthy eating appeared to have a protective effect against overweight/obesity in three year old children (odds ratio=0.38, 95% CI=0.20 to 0.70). Furthermore, a higher proportion of overweight/obesity mothers had no awareness of health promotion as compared to 2 (4, n=200)=13.29, p=0.01). Maternal awareness of health promotion appeared to also have a protective effect against overweight/obesity in mothers (odds ratio=0.51, 95% CI=0.28 to 0.95). Conclusions: maternal awareness of health promotion on maternal and preschool childhood obesity. Additionally, this study showed that overweight and obese preschool children had parents who were also overweight and obese. 2 Aim: preschool childhood obesity, as well as maternal awareness of public health promotion on healthy eating with parental and preschool childhood obesity. Methods: Data were collected by measuring the height and weight of two hundred randomly selected three-year old children and their parents. Details of the early feeding and dietary styles and level of health promotion awareness were assessed in faceto-face structured health interviews with the parents. Results: between childhood obesity and parents’ obesity (r=0.2; p<0.001). A higher proportion of overweight and obese preschool children showed that their mothers lacked awareness of health promotion as compared to children...
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...Community Assessment Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2011, the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high concentration of telecommunications companies. The city of Richardson is located in the North Central Texas, approximately 10 miles north of downtown Dallas. Of the 27.4 square miles contained within the borders of the city, 18.2 square miles lie in Dallas County; the remaining 9.2 square miles, all adjacent to the northern city limit line, fall in Collin County. In 2008, Richardson was ranked as the 18th best place to live in the United States by money magazine. This ranked Richardson the 4th best place to live in Texas. Richardson was the first North Texas city recognized as a best workplace for commuters by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Transportation in 2004. In 2011 the Texas Recreation and Park Society awarded Richardson with the Texas Gold Medal for excellence in the field of recreation and park management. The average sale price for a home in Richardson is about $180,000; average apartment rent is $833. The median family income is $69, 724. Median age of the Richardson population is 35; average household size is 2.69 persons. Richardson’s retail base centers, around the Richardson Square Mall, with about 80 stores. Restaurants from fast-food franchises to full-service...
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...Optimal living is established by successfully embracing a healthy balance in all aspects of one’s life and implementing lifestyle adaptations to ensure this elevated level of wellness moving forward. Healthy living habits include: adequate rest, censoring stress, preserving quality social relationships, regular exercise, and quality nutrition. These behaviors synergistically working together will improve employees’ quality of life, as well as the quality of their work. The following are proven strategies from peer-reviewed resources that will enable employees to improve their quality of life, which in turn will lead companies into a more productive future. Optimal Living is generally an afterthought of employees, one that follows a promotion or other work advancement when time becomes available to be devoted to developing a healthy way of life plan. Recent findings are reordering these actions and provide...
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...Unit 8: Promoting Health and Well-being You must create a health promotion campaign from one of the following sectors: * Health * Early years (Care and education) * Care of older people * Individuals with specific needs Your target group must be one of the following client groups: * people who are ill * young children * older people * people with specific needs Your report must include evidence from the following: * knowledge and understanding of the topic addressed by your promotion, and a considered and appropriate choice of target group * the planning of your promotion including: aims and objectives, the health promotion model(s)/approach (es) chosen, and the methods used to measure the success of the promotion * implementation of your health promotion, the use and development of appropriate media and materials, and an analysis of the success of your health promotion * D* the evaluation outcomes of your health promotion. When you carry out interviews or activities with clients as part of your internally assessed work it is essential that you obtain the client’s consent and maintain full confidentiality throughout. Opportunity for learners to be assessed on Quality of Written Communication (QWC) — (i-iii). Mark Scheme: This is the mark scheme taken from mark band C (highest mark band). Use this as a guideline. The learner demonstrates excellent skills in obtaining information from at least three sources...
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...Tamara Perez-Davis 9957 Otterburn St Las Vegas, NV 89178 January 8, 2014 Mr. Daniel Post Editor Sunset Times P.O. Box 1235 Las Vegas, NV 89163 Dear Mr. Post: I am writing this letter to express some concern about my community and hopefully some insight as to how we can fix the epidemic of health and issues in our local community. Health promotion programs often lack a clearly specified theoretical foundation or are based on narrowly conceived conceptual models. For example, lifestyle modification programs typically emphasize individually focused behavior change strategies, while neglecting the environmental underpinnings of health and illness (Stokols, 1994). The ecological approach focuses on the population-level and individual level determinants of health and intervention. It has also been said that a population can achieve long-term health improvements when people become involved in their community and work together to effect change (Hanson, 1998-89). After looking at the Kaiser Permanente Community Health Initiative video it opened up my eyes. The video showed how certain communities are using a technology called Photovoice. It helps different members of the community show others what is happening there with hopefulness that it will get the messages reached out to others. It really helps by showing the legislatures and congressmen in their area what is going on in the communities around them. It’s a great tool that can promote safety and awareness...
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...The topic that I chose for my organizational behavior project was managing stress and the work-life balance. I chose this topic after doing the wheel of life project in class. When I did that activity I was amazed to see how far off my work-life balance was. From what my ideal wheel of life looked like compared to my actual wheel of life they were way opposite from each other. There were some other students around me that had similar appearances but not quite as drastic as mine was. So after that activity I decided that I would look into other’s work-life balance and how they manage stress. To narrow my results I chose to look at others in the same profession that I am in, nursing. To research this topic I talked or interviewed other nurses including co-workers and other classmates, I handed out a brief five question survey and a wheel of life activity for them to fill out and return to me and I also used the text for ways to improve work-life balance and reduce stress. So after a staff meeting I handed out several surveys and spoke with about 8 co-workers. I received 24 surveys back and only about 7 wheel of life activities. The things that I spoke with the other nurses about were things such as; what causes stress, what relives their stress, how stress effects their lives, what could their employer do to lower stress, and does the employer offer them assistance already in creating a more balance in their work and life. The survey that was handed out had 5 questions on it...
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