Health Action Process Approach

No matter how much it is justified to be of practical approach in decision-making based on ethical and socio-political grounds and/or as a form of rational action, the PP is not adequately applicable (Holm and Harris 1999; Starr 2003; Wildavsky 1996). 3.2 Challenges Faced by Industries by Introduction of the PP The Precautionary Principle is not a sound approach to risk analysis as it requires extensive assessments and has no basis or measure to give guidance to what level of analysis is…

capital, knowledge workers, and social capital. Human capital is the economic or productive potential of employee knowledge, experience, and actions. A knowledge worker adds value to the company because is someone whose occupations is principally concerned with generating or interpreting information. And, social capital is the economic…

Deontology is a concept introduced by a philosopher by the name of Immanuel Kant, who described deontology as a form of ethical responsibility, where the morality of one’s action depends on the outcome of that act. For instance, harm is intolerable but does…

best. Political philosophy is the strongest frame at providing an overall policy goal through its dialectic approach. However, it is the weakest of the five frames at providing technical details or a plan of action. Information processing counterbalances the major weakness of political philosophy by being the strongest technical frame since it provides prescriptions for the policy process (Bobrow and Dryzek 1987, 95). The major weakness of information processing, decision-making, is offset by…

What is reflection/reflective practice? i) Reflection or reflective practices is a process where you study your own experiences to improve the way you work. This involves consciously analyzing your practices, refocuses your thoughts to produce better ideas to modify your actions and learning needs. This is supported by Donald Schon (1983) where the capacity to reflect on an action is important so as to engage in a process of continuous learning in order to define the characteristics of…

Introduction Cigarette smoking maximises the risk of numerous types of cancers, stroke, heart disease and various other medical conditions, for both active and passive smokers. It continues to be the most significant health risk behaviour to cause of death all over the world (World Health Organisation, as cited in Smerecnik, van Schooten, van Schayck, de Vries, & Quaak, 2011) Although the risks of cigarette smoking are well-known and there is an abundance of intervention programmes aimed to aid…

utilization of asthma action plan, which must all be incorporated in the education process. This is advantageous because it puts the patient in charge of asthma management process except only that a patient will not prescribe medication for themselves. However, as Boulet et al (1999) notes, the success of the asthma management in this case…

One way of getting the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle and improve their health is through health promotion. Health promotion is defined by Tones and Green (2004) as; the process of enabling people and communities and giving them more control over their health and its determinants, thereby improving their health with the individual’s involvement. Tones and Green (2004) further stated that health promotion is any combination of education and related legal, fiscal, economic, environmental and…

This essay will explore how the nursing model and process is implemented in practice, considering how the RLT model assists nurses to adapt a…

p. 3). However, this would be only the curriculum ‘in paper’, since Coles (in Grant, 2011), defines that there is a need to recognize two further types of curricula, which is the ‘in action’ (what in reality occurs) and the ‘experienced’ (what the learner perceived). McKimm (2003) refers to the curriculum ‘in action’ as a synonym of ‘hidden’ because it includes all the implicit factors like beliefs, values and processes that are present and can change what is expected. The existence of this…