Health promotion

Lauren, you provided the group with a very well written post. As you mentioned, it is very important to understand and provide the clients with the population health promotion model with every interaction. In addition, the nurse and healthcare team need to create and maintain a safe environment for the client within every environment. Safety questions can be asked to identify if the client’s home is a safe environment. Therefore, an occupational therapist can make a home visit to observe the…

population across the nation captivates the attention of health care professionals in health maintenance and promotion. For this reason, nurses must be cognizant in comprehending and anticipating the needs of an aging adult. By strategically using assessment tools geared toward older adults, oversights in well-being may be discovered. The purpose of this paper is to interview a senior citizen and utilize screening tools to assess health, provide my overall impression of the senior citizen,…

APNs possess the ability to decrease the number of CHD deaths by advocating for health care policy changes and providing patient education. The APN’s role in health promotion remains paramount at the individual, community, state, and national levels. At the individual level, an APN may utilize the 5A’s model: ask, advise, agree, assist, arrange; which serves as a timely, evidenced-based practice to address behavioral health risks (USDHHS, 2012a). For CAD, the APN may utilize the model to address…

Lesson Plan Critique: Healthful Foods Help Me Grow Health education is important to have on a daily schedule and creating lessons to support it is imperative. The lesson that I have chosen to critique is “Healthful Foods Help Me Grow” for Kindergarten grade level. I have chosen this lesson because it is a lesson that would work great for student’s in my classroom. I teach a 4th through 6th grade autism class and most of my students are low functioning so this lesson would be perfect for them…

The health care environment has found a decline in the price of care while there is an increase in safety and quality through the use of evidence-base practice (Canada, 2016). This discussion post will focus on what the forces are causing changes in health care culture, comparison of nursing work group culture with other organizational cultures, and on evidence-base practice. This will include the role of nursing leaders in promoting the use of evidence-base practice, strategies in…

The book “The End Of Dieting, How to Live for Life” by Dr. Fuhrman talks about how to live in a superior health. I will talk about the reason I choose to read this book, the areas of interest to me, and the evidence-based information available to support and contradict his views. Book I choose to read the book “The End Of Dieting, How to Live For Life” written by a physician Joel Fuhrman because he has a wealth of knowledge in nutritional sciences. The title also intrigued me because I want to…

Close the health gap presented by Michael Marmot discussed the implications of the social determinants of health on the life expectancy, overall health, and quality of health for those who are at greater risk of social determinants of health. Marmot discusses the implication of the social determinants of health in a variety of countries such as the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Canada. Although each country has its own unique culture and population, all are impacted by social…

History of Health Care Policy Initiatives in the United States Compared to the health care delivery system of other countries, “The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world (16 percent of GDP) with health status indicators that are, at best, only average in comparison with the less costly health systems of other countries” (Shortell, Gilles, & Wu, 2010, p. 191). As cited by Edelman, Kudzma, and Mandle (2014), “The rising cost of health care is consuming a growing…

overall health and wellbeing. Partners with organisations to enable a better co-ordinated approach to obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle activities. Shape up Australia is apart of the Australian Government 's National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health within the states and regions in order to help all Australians lessen their waist measurements and enhance their general health and wellbeing. Shape up Australia was introduced by The Australian National Preventive Health Agency…

Promoting public health is an important goal of human development. According to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2010), public health is a service which accommodates an individual’s approach to healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion. Whether social conformity protects public health has created debate on many issues amongst various stakeholders. Myer (2009, p. 680) defined social conformity as a special type of social influence that changes an individual’s behaviour or…