The Stroke Belt: Health Promotion for African Americans At some point in every individual’s life, he or she will need healthcare whether it is at the time of birth or the time of death, but somewhere between life and death changes has to be made to improve the health and quality of life. These changes come about through health promotion. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the health prevention strategy and its mission and goals; its clinical significant and effects on the client, community, health care system related to stroke in African Americans as well as stroke program, goals, and interventions and resources available to help African American stroke victims or African Americans that are at risk for strokes.
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Malewezi states that recommendations given by The National Service Framework for Older People should allow for people who have had strokes to receive proper education through various programs of secondary prevention. These patients need to receive a complete assessment and educated on the risk factors and lifestyle changes such as exercise, smoking, diet, weight and alcohol excess. Strategies should be given to help them make lifestyle changes. Stroke patients should receive support in learning the information given to assist in lifestyle changes. Studies and data have shown that the teaching provided is neither effective nor completed. For example, the number of patients that received teaching for the prevention of stroke when discharged from the hospital was very little as evident by the submitted documentation nurses completed indicating that lifestyle teaching was completed according to the 2010 national stroke audit. This audit revealed that there was a decrease in the number of patients being taught lifestyle changes with numbers decreasing from 58% to 41%. As far as documented teaching on smoking cessation there was only 64% of patients that received the teaching, 56% on reducing alcohol intake, and 56% on exercise teaching. These results prove that there is a need to modify policies concerning educating …show more content…
The program provides insight that educating a large population of African Americans can impact a community, which in turn will cause them to make better health decisions. Even though African Americans may have the desire to be healthy, but without proper education on lifestyle changes, it is nearly impossible. It is imperative that this population of people receives the proper support so that their lives might be saved (Henderson, 2014). There is from the beginning a health disadvantage in the African American population and to pinpoint why African Americans lack proper education research must be completed to trend these barriers. This problem can be resolved by eliminating the mistrust issues so that an improvement in health outcomes can take place in the African American population. Researchers must understand this population so that they can gain their trust, alleviate fears, and eliminate any reluctance to participating in the research. This trust can be built by creating positive interactions by researchers following through with promises and making this population aware of research and the benefits of the research (Story, Hinton, and Wyatt,
The effects of stroke …show more content…
Malewezi states that recommendations given by The National Service Framework for Older People should allow for people who have had strokes to receive proper education through various programs of secondary prevention. These patients need to receive a complete assessment and educated on the risk factors and lifestyle changes such as exercise, smoking, diet, weight and alcohol excess. Strategies should be given to help them make lifestyle changes. Stroke patients should receive support in learning the information given to assist in lifestyle changes. Studies and data have shown that the teaching provided is neither effective nor completed. For example, the number of patients that received teaching for the prevention of stroke when discharged from the hospital was very little as evident by the submitted documentation nurses completed indicating that lifestyle teaching was completed according to the 2010 national stroke audit. This audit revealed that there was a decrease in the number of patients being taught lifestyle changes with numbers decreasing from 58% to 41%. As far as documented teaching on smoking cessation there was only 64% of patients that received the teaching, 56% on reducing alcohol intake, and 56% on exercise teaching. These results prove that there is a need to modify policies concerning educating …show more content…
The program provides insight that educating a large population of African Americans can impact a community, which in turn will cause them to make better health decisions. Even though African Americans may have the desire to be healthy, but without proper education on lifestyle changes, it is nearly impossible. It is imperative that this population of people receives the proper support so that their lives might be saved (Henderson, 2014). There is from the beginning a health disadvantage in the African American population and to pinpoint why African Americans lack proper education research must be completed to trend these barriers. This problem can be resolved by eliminating the mistrust issues so that an improvement in health outcomes can take place in the African American population. Researchers must understand this population so that they can gain their trust, alleviate fears, and eliminate any reluctance to participating in the research. This trust can be built by creating positive interactions by researchers following through with promises and making this population aware of research and the benefits of the research (Story, Hinton, and Wyatt,