...Health education is educating people about health and health promotion strategies. It is a learning experience which mainly focuses on helping individuals and communities to improve their health by holding educational programmes and group activities. Through these activities, people can gain lots of knowledge about health and they can be positively influenced to change their attitudes. There are various health approaches and they are community development, Participation development and Holistic approach. Community is a group of people who shares the common interests and beliefs and development is the process where things grow and develop. Community development is a system where all the members of the community gather together to discuss the everyday problems that they have to face or that has been happening in their society and also to find the solution for it. As community development seeks to improve the quality of life, it observes and notices the ability and helps people to develop it. It also helps people to built a trust and respect each other within their communities. Community development ranges from small initiatives with a small group to large initiatives that involve the broader community. It also encourages the societies to be more health promoting by developing supporting groups and gathering people together to address the issues of power, inequality and social injustice. Community development is both a practice and an occupation which aims to bring about change...
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...different approaches to health education, explaining two models of behaviour change that have been used in recent health education campaigns, and assessing how the social context may influence the ability of health education campaigns to change behaviour in relation to health. Health promotion involves doing things to prevent disease and to improve individual and community’s health. Health promotion offers solutions to many of the health problems facing society such as obesity, lack of exercise and smoking though developing skills and knowledge, community action, supportive environments, healthy public policy and health services. Health promotion helps individuals or communities to increase control over and improve their health and wellbeing. The features of health promotion are that it is based on a holistic view of health; it uses participatory approaches it focuses on the determinants and addressing of health not just health problems and conditions. These include the social, behavioural, environmental and economic conditions that are the root cause of poor health, wellbeing and illness such as education, income, employment, working conditions, social status. Health promotion builds on existing strengths and assets and it uses multiple, complementary approaches to promote health for the individual, community and population as a whole. There are three main approaches to health education. The approaches have been used to as a way to improve the health of individual. The three...
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...oPromoting good health By Maariyah Ismail F912 Principals of health and well being There are many components in order for a service user to stay healthy. A person can stay healthy through many components for example regular exercise; not only keeps you fit, but also increases flexibility, boosts your mood and safeguards your health. A daily walk can help to keep you active and if you walk with friends, it can give your social life a boost. This enables the needs of a service user to be fulfilled however although someone may have a disease it doesn’t mean they are not healthy that are a very able and strong user. For example if a service user has not got a good social life and are very insecure because they are very emotionally unhealthy but has a good physical health this would show they are still not healthy because due to the emotional issues they may not be eating and staying depressed unlike the service user with physical issues. The ‘World Health Organisation’ also known as (WHO) would define health in a different way to other people’s organisations. WHO defined health as ‘a state of complete physical, Mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in 1948. WHO later updated there definition in 1984’ the extent to which an individual or group is able, on the one hand, to realise aspirations and satisfy need, and on the other hand, to change or cope with the environment.’ WHO’s definition meant health was more than just physically...
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...individual health and wellness for Molly and supported by appropriate theoretical perspectives. Firstly, the actual and potential health problems and needs of the individual will be identified A sense of empowerment will help Molly both in the short and long term. Home » Health Providing indivufual care plan By sunny5008 | October 2012 Zoom InZoom OutPage 1 of 6 Promoting individual health plan This essay aims to develop a plan using Molly’s scenario to promote individual health and wellness. The health promotion plan will use the approaches and activities to improve the individual health and wellbeing. First, I will identify the actual and potential health problems and needs of the individual. Second, I will use the approaches and activities for health promotion, also discuss the bio psychosocial factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing for the individual. Finally, I will discuss and evaluate the approaches and activities of the individual to promote health. Health promotion is the process of enabling people to control over and improve their health [WHO 1986]. Health promotion is not done on or to people; it is done with and for people either individual or groups. Nowadays, health promotion has never been so important, nurse have taught patients how to manage illness before; in the future we must focus on teaching people how to remain healthy [Chiverton et al 2003]. Under the present economic crisis, worldwide suggests that all health organasations...
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...Unit F912: Promoting Good Health Health & Social Care AS Contents Page A01 – Pages 3 - 13 A02 - A03 – A04 – Promoting good health This unit explores what is good health, the models, the range of lifestyle choices and societal factors which influence health and well-being. Health and well-being are not only affected by an individual’s lifestyle choices (e.g. smoking, eating unhealthy ‘fatty food), but also by societal and environmental issues (e.g. living near a motorway – high pollution levels) Government policies and legislation have an imperative part to play in the promotion of good health, as the introduction on screening programmes (e.g. cervical smear test, antenatal screening etc.); which prevent ill health, has been an incredible and useful tool. Health promoters also have a significant role to play in helping individual’s using services to make the right decision about their health. As their choice of presentation approach can make or damage a health promotion campaign. Further, health promoters need to take into account the presentation methods, and to ensure that they have been chosen well to confirm that the message is successfully put over to the individual to whom it is directed. What is ‘health’? The Worlds Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. However, others may simply define health as the absence of illness...
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...Promoting Positive Health Behavior There is strong evidence that the preventive medicine practice of screening for diseases is very effective in saving lives, reducing suffering and health care costs. In light of this the federal government in collaboration with states launched the Every Woman Matters (EWM) program to help improve public awareness of the need for early detection of breast and cervical cancer and also to improve access to screening services for low income women, through the removal of the barrier to preventive breast and cervical cancer screening in these communities. By design EWM aligned with participating practices to help them implement the program. Eligible women received clinical breast examination, mammography, and papanicolaou smear from these practices at reduced or no cost. Unfortunately EWM program failed short of its objectives. The possible reasons for the ineffectiveness of the EWM program were largely design-based. A study conducted by Backer et al in collaboration with the Nebraska Health and Human Services EWM program helped elucidate some of the design flaws of this program. The group collected and analyzed both qualitative and quantitative data from 7 participating practices, in addition to in-depth interviews with physicians and staff at participating practices. By design this study was intended to: * Identify barriers to delivery of breast and cervical cancer screening services * Enhance understanding of the attitudes of physicians...
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...P1 In this assignment I will be explaining three different approaches to health education. I will also be giving examples of each approach being used and lastly I will also be explaining the role of the health educators in these approaches. The three approaches I will be talking about are as follows; social marketing approach, two way communication and community development approach. Health education is usually used to give information and advice of the knowledge and skills that the professionals have gained in their sector in order to change the behaviour that affects health an example of this could be using social marketing by putting posters up in busses about eating healthy. Health educators come from a wide range of professions including teachers in schools, social workers who work with adults and young children, practice nurses in wards and hospitals and even care homes, health visitors that come out to individuals and leisure centre staff who work in gyms. Health education uses different approaches to promote health education and some of the approaches that are used and are being used I will be talking about within this assignment. Prescriptions were introduced 1952 smoking and cancer link introduced 1954 2000 NHS walk in centres introduced 2007 smoking ban introduced This time line links in with my campaign and shows how health improved over the years within drugs and other substances for an example smoking ban in public bases resulted in...
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...Promoting Healthy Behavior Change II David Brink SCI/100 July 31, 2012 Michelle Alldredge Promoting Healthy Behavior Change III Over the past 18 months, there has been a decline in my level of fitness activity as well as nutritional habits. This has been a result of accepting a management position with a Japanese firm which was miss-represented to me by a recruitment firm. The job entailed traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles on a frequent basis along with very long work hours. It was commonplace for people to work from 8 AM up to 10 PM. On one occasion, I worked Friday into Saturday morning not getting home until 3:30 AM. Between the travel, frequently eating out and the stress of managing two remote facilities I did not gain weight, however I began to suffer from other stress related symptoms. With little time for exercising or proper nutrition, I began to suffer from anxiety and dreading going to work each day. This escalated to the point where I had heart palpitations and numbness in my left arm. I decided to immediately go to my doctor who ran a multitude of tests to ensure this was not the onset of a heart attack. Fortunately, the condition was stress related and not something more serious. I subsequently left that job after 11 months and accepted a position as a distribution general manager for a U.S. based company. I am busy, but much happier. As people get more sedentary when working long hours in combination with poor eating habits, a person’s weight could...
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...Health promotion is of great importance to nursing because it has long been acknowledged in nursing literature as fundamental to health care. A dramatic increase in chronic lifestyle diseases has prompted an emphasis on health promotion (Egger et al, 1990). Health promotion can be defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and to improve their health WHO (1986) cited in (Bright, 1997). However, health promotion is commonly confused with health education and yet health education, is an instrument in health promotion together with health protection and illness prevention. Without knowledge people cannot make healthy choices about their lifestyles therefore health education is very much a part of health promotion (Tannahill, 1985) cited in (Bright, 1997). This assignment is going to be based on a health initiative towards a group of young adult smokers within age range of seventeen and twenty five years. The author has chosen smoking because more young people continue to take up cigarette smoking and yet smoking has been identified as the biggest single cause of preventable ill health and premature deaths in the United Kingdom (DOH, 1999). The paper is going to support the choice of the topic with statistics and what the government is saying. The needs of the young adult smokers are going to be identified and these needs are going to be addressed through interactive lecture approach. It is essential to consider a health promotion model as...
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...Running head: PROMOTING PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLANALYSIS' CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF MENTAL HEALTH NAME COURSE INSTRUCTOR DATE Psychoanalysis is a method of understanding mental functioning and the stages of growth and development. Psychoanalysis is a general theory of individual human behavior and experience, and it has both contributed to and been enriched by many other disciplines. Psychoanalysis seeks to explain the complex relationship between the body and the mind and furthers the understanding of the role of emotions in medical illness and health. In addition, psychoanalysis is the basis of many other approaches to therapy. Many insights revealed by psychoanalytic treatment have formed the basis for other treatment programs in child psychiatry, family therapy, and general psychiatric practice (Farrell, 1981, p. 202). Sigmund Freud was the first psychoanalyst and a true pioneer in the recognition of the importance of unconscious mental activity. His theories on the inner workings of the human mind, which seemed so revolutionary at the turn of the century, are now widely accepted by most schools of psychological thought. In 1896, Freud coined the term "psychoanalysis," and for the next forty years of his life, he worked on thoroughly developing its main principles, objectives, techniques, and methodology. Freud (1949) defines the qualities of the psychical process as being conscious, preconscious, or unconscious (p. 31). Ideas considered to be conscious...
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...Page 1 The World Health Organisation (World Health Organisation, 2008) states that the indigenous peoples of Australia are one of the most disadvantaged indigenous groups in the developed world. The health of the Indigenous population of Australia is an increasingly pressing issue. Current research and statistics reveals great inequality in many areas of health care and health status between the Aboriginal people and the general population of Australia. Couzos and Murray (2008, p. 29) report that the Indigenous population has “the worst health status of any identifiable group in Australia, and the poorest access to health systems.” This paper will examine the underlying historical contexts and contributing factors that have lead to the current disparity between the health of the Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Furthermore, the high prevalence of chronic health issues such as diabetes will be analysed and community health initiatives that are needed or currently being enacted will be identified. Many reasons for the current appalling state of health and wellbeing of the Australian Aboriginal people can be explained by examining their recent history to the devastating impacts of colonisation, genocidal policy, loss of land and years of oppression. These several hundred years of cultural destruction, dispossession and social and political upheaval have resulted in generations of trauma and grief (Burke, 2006, para. 4). As reported by Forsyth (2007, p. 35-36)...
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...Promoting health in secondary schools Ruth Joyce Marilyn Toft and Eric Winstone The authors Ruth Joyce is County Adviser in Drugs and Health Education, Cambridge County Council, Cambridge, UK. Marilyn Toft is Training Co-ordinator at Lewisham Education Authority, Lewisham, UK. Eric Winstone is Deputy Principal of Sir Harry Smith Community College, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK. Abstract Describes the Promoting Health in Secondary Schools project, which was commissioned by the Health Education Authority in January 1994. The aim of the project was to support regional and local education and health professionals and colleagues in secondary schools in their efforts to develop effective whole-school approaches to health at the levels of both policy and practice. The work was coordinated by the Institute of Education and Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Gives, as an example of what can be achieved, a range of future projects identified by one of the secondary schools involved. Concludes that the project was able to stimulate healthy alliances, create opportunities for sharing effective practice and influence local funding priorities. Evaluation showed that health issues, if developed in a whole-school context, can articulate closely with wider school and community concerns about making school more effective and increasing school achievement. Regrets that the project was not extended beyond the stage described. The Health Education Authority commissioned the Promoting...
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...Introduction Health begins in the context of our everyday lives, including in the places we live, eat, work and play. Health is not just about the absence of disease, but also the physical, mental and social wellbeing (Scully, 2004). Many factors are involved to influence the health of communities, such as social, cultural, economic and physical environments. My goal is to advocate for healthy school environments. Children of all ethnicities and socio-economic groups spend most of their waking hours together in schools, and therefore, schools are ideal environments for the promotion and establishment of healthy living in children. I believe that advocating for a healthy school community involves promoting: 1) healthy eating and 2) daily physical activity. 1. Healthy eating A healthy diet during childhood supports optimal health, growth and cognitive development, as well as aid in the prevention of chronic illness later in life (Van Cauwenberghe et al., 2010). Because children spend many hours per day in school, a significant amount of their total daily calories are consumed at school (Wechsler, Devereaux, Davis & Collins, 2000). Students can obtain low-nutrient products such as chips, ice creams, carbonated beverages and sweetened fruit juices in school cafeterias, vending machines and school stores (Wechsler et al., 2000). For example, vending machines were highly accessible in my high school. We had five of them in the cafeteria and one more in the front lobby. My friends...
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...Nursing Practice Name Instructor Course Date Nursing Practice 1. How is health promotion defined? Wellness showcasing is the study of craft of helping people changes their way of life to move to a state of greatest wellbeing; the most extreme wellbeing protection scope health being the parity of physical, enthusiastic, open, religious, and discerning wellbeing (Kudzma, Mandle and Edelman, 2010). WHO depicts wellbeing showcasing as, the procedure of permitting people to build control over, and to enhance, their wellbeing. It goes past concentration on individual conduct towards a mixed bag of open and natural medicines. In the journals examined, Health advertising at: a) Primary level permits women in Australia to clear a path of life progressions to anticipate heart diseases. b) Secondary permits school-matured children battle absence of activity and related sicknesses, for example, being overweight. c) Tertiary permits diminished the effect of being overweight and experiencing diabetes, call diabesity on children in the Dominican Republic. 2. What is the purpose of health promotion in nursing practice? The goal of health showcasing is to positively affect the health activities of people, regions, the living, and working circumstances that affect their wellbeing. With innovative development and utilization of mechanical advancement in the restorative forethought framework, nursing staff acquire the data and have entry to the most up to date and required...
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...helping to increase mortality is vital, as a human being. Public health is a fundamental aspect in ensuring the healthiness within a neighborhood and society overall. Collaborating with several departments and organizations, public health works on providing the important, working behind the scene to provide vital services necessary for evaluating, preventing, and rectifying health concerns to ensure the community is protected. An analysis, the historical development, and career opportunities within public health will be discussed in the community newsletter. What is Public Health? Public health is defined as the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease, preventing injuries, and detecting and controlling infectious diseases. The responsibility of public health is to protect the population including, small local neighborhoods, or an entire country or region (“What is Public Health?”, 2016). Educational programs are implemented, policies recommended, and research conducted to prevent obstacles from occurring or reoccurring. In public health, the focal point is not based on one individual or sickness, rather its focus is on providing healthy circumstances to a community or society. Historical Development in Public Health During the early 1900s, the United States had countless considerable infectious diseases health threats affiliated with substandard hygiene and sanitation, diseases...
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