Health promotion

Healthcare: Health practices are performed differently based on a variety of variables, key among them gender, location, and societal norms. For example, the rurality of a community and men’s health practices are directly related. This connection needs to be more fully understood if an improvement in the health of these rural men is to be achieved. In a similar way, the weight based stigma centered around women deeply affects multiple aspects of women’s lives, from employment, education,…

titled “Health-promoting behavior is positively associated with diabetic control among type 2 diabetes patients” from the Open Journal of Nursing. I was able to find this study using the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature nursing database using the key words Type 2 Diabetes and health promoting behaviors. This study was a cross-sectional survey and used a descriptive design. The theoretical framework for this particular study was to relate the cause and effect of health…

the way in which persons in mental health and addiction services must use strategies to engage and work in partnership with service users to support their strengths. As a nursing student it is important to have an understanding of working alongside mentally distressed service users. This essay outlines my current understanding of working alongside these people and explains why it is necessary to be working on my self-awareness as a nursing student in mental health and addiction services. This…

greater proactive and preventative role in population health. I have certainly had the opportunity to solidify this knowledge over the past 11 weeks. Unfortunately, it seems that much of our health care system is focused on reactive interventions rather than preventative ones. Undeniably, a reactive approach is certainly more costly than a preventative one in terms of health care and the sooner governments put more emphasis on preventative health measures the better off we will be as a…

WEEK 9: Health, Stress, Coping 1. The social cognitive theories help understand why individuals partake in health compromising or health promoting activities. The health belief theory suggests that there are several factors involved in health behaviours. It includes perceived susceptibility of the health threat, unrealistic optimistic biases of health threat, perceived severity of the health threat and the benefits and barriers in adopting this health behaviour. Cues to action influence health…

This topic seems to be a good sounding board for us therapist to scrutinized our health, because I believed for us to be able to care of our patients, we need to take care of ourselves first. With the 24-hour log I did over the weekend, the first question [Describe two domains which I believed I demonstrated healthy behaviors] I can say, that nutrition and coping skills/ techniques are domains that I try so much to make sure I stay healthy. I managed to maintain a normal BMI for my height and…

participating in the wellness programs. ADA workers began to file lawsuits. The main concern was that the wellness program at Orion Energy penalized workers for failing to complete a health risk assessment which rendered the program involuntary. Three lawsuits were filed for this reason. The employees were charged their entire health plan premium, plus a $50 non-participation penalty (Schappel , 2015). This is illegal. This is not a requirement unless it is job-related or a business necessity.…

Recognised for a number of decades is the high prevalence of physical health disorders and increased mortality in persons with a serious mental illness (SMI) (Scott & Happell, 2011). For people with SMI, physical health promotion does not currently fit easily within the health system as a result of multiple boundaries. The capability of the system to respond is hindered because of these boundaries. In 2007, more than half of Australian adults who had experienced SMI between the ages of 16-85,…

1. Discuss what you have learned about the role of the nurse in this setting with the information in your textbook regarding the role. (10 points)  Answer here:  Health promotion and prevention is a key aspect of the nursing role for Correctional Nursing because the time that they are incarcerated it presents an ideal opportunity to provide access to interventions to improve the offender’s long-term heath. Correction nurses have multiple roles by being the caregiver as well as the custodian…

Public health is the specialty of promoting, protecting, and reinstating human health (Nies & McEwen, 2014). In this discussion I will explain who is involved in public health, and what roles they play? I will explain the role of the public health team in the Healthy People 2020 objectives. Finally, I will discuss what I learned in the Outbreak at Watersedge activity, and why team work is important in community health nursing. The professionals involved in public health are the…