Week 7

Front 1

Health

Back 1

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Front 2

Health Promotion

Back 2

The process of equipping people to have control over, and to improve, physical, emotional, and social health

Front 3

Health promotion

Back 3

is motivated by the desire to increase wellbeing and health protection is motivated by a desire to avoid illness

Front 4

Explain the importance of Health Promotion

Back 4

o Health promotion activities are useful to all individuals, weather well or sick, because they encourage optimal function.

Front 5

Identify influences on person’s health

Back 5

o Alcohol and drug abuse
o Unsafe sex practices
o Tobacco use
o Obesity
o Sedentary lifestyle
o Culture
o Media
o Peer pressure

Front 6

Primary prevention

Back 6

Activities are designed to prevent or slow the onset of disease
• Eating healthy foods, wearing sunscreen, obeying seat belt laws, and immunizations
• Health awareness, teaching/educating the public

Front 7

Secondary prevention

Back 7

Involves screening activities and education for detecting illness in the early stages
• Breast self-examination, testicular exams, regular physical examinations, blood pressure and diabetes screenings, and tuberculosis skin tests
• Taking vitals, helping with screenings

Front 8

Tertiary prevention

Back 8

focuses on stopping the disease from progressing and returning the individual to the pre-illness phase
• Rehabilitation
• Rehab nurse

Front 9

Explain the role of health screenings in health promotion throughout the life span

Back 9

o Detecting illnesses in the early stages
o Health promotion is a lifelong process.
o Assist individuals to take part in health promotion throughout the lifespan.
o Teach the benefits of change.
o Eliminate the perceived barriers to change.

Front 10

Pender Identifies three groups of variables that affect health promotion

Back 10

1. Individual characteristics and experiences
2. Behavior-specific cognitions and affect
3. Behavioral outcome

Front 11

Pender has Two general assumptions are about the interpersonal environment

Back 11

1. Health professionals constitute a part of the interpersonal environment, which exerts influence on persons throughout their life span
2. Self-initiated reconfiguration of person-environment interactive patterns is essential to behavior change

Front 12

Pender has Five assumptions that are characteristics of people whom they assume

Back 12

1. Seek to create conditions of living though which they can express their unique human health potential
2. Have the capacity for reflective self-awareness, including assessment of their own competencies
3. Value growth in directions viewed as positive and attempt to achieve a personally acceptable balance between change and stability
4. Seek to actively regulate their own behavior
5. In all their bio-psychosocial complexity interact with the environment, progressively transforming the environment and being transformed over time

Front 13

Wheel of Wellness

Back 13

• Taking the different facets of health to spoke of a wheel
• If one of the spokes is weak, the whole wheel is weak
o Dimensions of health: emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual, social/family, and occupational

Front 14

Transtheoretical Model of Change

Back 14

May serve as a means to alter unhealthy behaviors
• Stage 1: Contemplation- involves the decision making progress
• Stage 2: Determination- is the stage in which the person makes a decision to change a behavior and prepares a plan
• Stage 3: The Action Stage- is the implementation of the plan
• Stage 4: The Maintenance Stage- allows the changed behavior to be reinforced

Front 15

Ways the nurse can assist in the health promotion process

Back 15

o Dissemination Information
o Changing Lifestyles and Behavior
o Protecting the Environment
o Assessing Wellness and Appraising Health Risk

Front 16

Explain how Healthy People 2020 influences health promotion in America

Back 16

o Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
o Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors.
o Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions.
o Measure the impact of prevention activities.