Preventative Health Promotion Paper

1. Healthy People 2020: Have a vision of a society that all people live long, healthy lives by using a 10 year plan. Through their mission they identify

According to Rural Health Information Hub (2017), the fundamental purpose of disease prevention is to keep individuals healthy. One implements health promotion interventions in an effort to promote healthy behaviors and to decrease the risks of developing chronic illnesses (RHIH, 2017). According to the ADA (2016) individuals that participate in health promotion behaviors are more likely to have better health outcomes compared to those who do not. The EBP change project has shown that educating patients with prediabetes can increase diabetes knowledge and promote an increase in health promotion behaviors. The EBP change project outcome has indicated that participants who completed the 6-week diabetes education program were able to increase their knowledge regarding type 2 diabetes. Therefore, with the positive outcome of the EBP change project, the EBP change project site can incorporate certain aspects of the diabetes education program into their patient education to increase diabetes knowledge, picking healthier food options and participants in activities that would increase physical fitness.

I chose the article “What factors Hinder Women of Color from Obtaining Preventive Health Care” to review because I found it interesting and full of truths. With that being said, I feel there are so many variable when it comes to woman and healthcare. This article is about a specific report done and all the research that backs up that report. The article explains how the research has regularly provided facts that health care inequalities exist between white and minority woman but more specifically minority women with lower income therefore a lack to access of health care, health care providers, and prevented care. It was in the 1985 Report of the “Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health” that listed the factors that cause these inequalities in health care among people of color which resulted from a lack of access to health care providers, differences in healthy behaviors, and environmental factors. The 1985 study found that regardless of race, woman of color who had a regular doctor were as likely to receive preventive health care which of course leads to healthier woman.

For many years, health promotions and prevention has been the focus for healthcare providers, especially nurses. Health promotion seeks to improve a person or population’s health by teaching about and helps people become more aware of risky behaviors associated with different diseases. It encourages individuals to take preventative measures to prevent onset or worsening of a disease or illness. It encourages a healthier lifestyle (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The strategy is to help people make health improvements or prevention before illness occurs.

If I had to hold a career in a Public health department, then I would choose to be Public Health Advisor in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) because it’s salary range is $88,305 to 114,802 per year, which is enough amount of money for my life expensive. Since, is the agency who we Americans trust with our lives because CDC is premier heath promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency, which shows that my job out look is very adventure because advisor’s duties are creating plan how we public health department can collaborate with local, state, Federal state international government, and various in public as non-profit, private and other health – related organization. Also, develop public health messages with subject matter

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health promotion as “The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.”

Understand about health, illness, and wellness: (CHP 17 p. 295 & PP Health Promotion and Disease Prevention)

The function of a health promotion brochure is to present information to the community on different topics with the intention of improving the health and well-being of individuals through the implementation of health education. In order for a brochure to be effective, the message must be clear, precise, and totally understood by the individual. Some health promoting brochures can provide incentives to maintaining wellness promoting behaviors. Brochures outlining strategies for preventing diseases such as diabetes can provide information to attain a stable lifestyle. The information however, has to be properly presented to get

Health Promotion has a wide range of studies; overall main agenda of Health Promotion is providing quality of care. Definition of health varies from author to author, (Kreuter and Devore) has defined that Health Promotion is a style of science and art, which helps people to change their lifestyle to receive optimal health. Goal of Health Promotion to achieve and improve the general health of individuals, families and the community. There are so many aspects effects on Health Promotion specially on Minority population in The United States of America. There are many groups which cover a minority population includes American Indian, Asian American, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

Efforts towards health promotion can be ineffective at times therefore interception level of preventive health promotion is

Briefly explain your public health message and justify why you believe it would promote change within your target audience

The disease progress goes through a series of natural stages (The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, 2017). Health promotion interventions/preventive measures can be applied during any stage of the process. The interventions and measures are to stop disease progression; therefore, it is a critical step of health promotion. There are many collaborative actions to empower patients to make these decisions based on the best of their interest. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention are part of the collaborative actions. There are pre-extensive factors such as environment, economic, social, culture, and behavior factors which can increase ones’ risk for disease. The prevention health care is to decease or minimize these risks to hence the outcome. Primary prevention are intervention/measures that assists individuals take actions instead of preventing personal exposure to these risk factors.

Disease prevention should be the center thoughts to everyone and more specifically the healthcare providers. The nurses and the nurse practitioners should promote a preventive measure to all patients that they have seen on a daily basis. We as NPs should be proactive in promoting health care promotions in the community that we are living. “Increasing the focus on prevention in our communities will help improve America's health, quality of life and prosperity” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014, 2). Promoting health care promotion requires some sort of good strategic to attend many people possible. One of the best ways the healthcare professionals can promote their patients how to prevent themselves from certain types of disease

Health promotion aims a wide range of targets at different levels in the community. The huge benefits resulted from health promotion and disease prevention efforts make many realize that this domain of health care is worth to be invested in. The focus is shifted evermore from the medical to the preventative approach, from treating the disease to avoiding the onset of it.

“The major goals of health promotion are to help people of all ages stay healthy, optimize health in cases of chronic disease or disability, and create healthy environments” (Pender et al., 2015). This health promotion project is designed to identify and reduce the risk factors associated with several illnesses and disease processes. This project will focus on changing lifestyle behaviors and providing up to date education for the patient to make the best informed decision regarding her environment, health behaviors, and developing a support system with her primary care physician.