Secondary and tertiary are the levels of prevention that this health plan would address. Secondary level would curtail and may even reverse some of the effects of the already progressing obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and other health related diseases by providing education and resources for the community. Tertiary level would provide a better quality of life for the people limited by these diseases. The Lake City Court residents would receive education over a ten-month time frame. What education is necessary would be determined by going door to door and talking with the residents about the issues they face daily. Speaking with food bank and emergency offices (at the same location) to find out their perspective on what is education is most needed would be an essential element for this program. Communicating with the Seattle Public Housing Authority is another important aspect of this health plan.
Criteria for classes would be developed from this groundwork. Education could be classes on: how to stretch your dollar while cooking nutritiously, how to budget your food fund, foods that are empty calories, how to read a label, how to feed a family on a tight budget, growing your food, and so forth. The USDA publishes a booklet on Healthy Eating on a Budget that would be a resource for these classes (USDA, 2011). A sign up sheet would be posted at the main communication area and emergency offices with times, dates, class titles. Flyers in multiple languages would then
The final health promotion level is tertiary and involves patient care and maintenance after a patient has been treated in an acute care setting for disease processes. An example of tertiary care is home-based pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients. COPD is a chronic disease involving the lungs with symptoms including fatigue and shortness of breath.
Obesity has been a huge epidemic for a while now, more than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are overweight or obese. In the article “Food for Thought”, written by Jennifer Grossman, projects that by bringing back home economics class will be a good result to fight off obesity. Grossman proposes that young adults who take home economics class will have a better perspective of what kind of food they should eat and not eat. She believes that it will educate young adults to “think, make, fix, and generally fend for themselves.”. I agree with Grossman’s point about how home economics class is a good way to fight and make our youth aware of obesity. I feel that Society needs to be educated of the types of food, the amount, and the effects of food they are consuming not just children. Grossman’s article is approaching children, opposing her approach I strongly feel it’s necessary to educate the parents since children are generally not paying nor are they preparing for the food they consume, as well as educating the children how to maintain a physical balance to burn off what they eat.
Summarize the program you identified at either county or state level and identify the level of prevention; primary, secondary or tertiary. If you do not find any related health program, propose a primary or secondary intervention that would help to meet target rate or percent.
Traditionally, nutrition programs were targeted to the indigent and poor populations in developing countries. Many of today's Americans are malnourished also, but they are inundated with unhealthy foods and require a multidisciplinary approach to nutrition education. What would be the three most important points to include in a public nutrition program? Provide current literature to support your answer and include two nutritional education community resources.
The first is primary prevention, which involves developing strategies to prevent risk factors and unhealthy behaviours. On a group level, this might include delivering educational programs for children and young people on topics like the dangers of tobacco use and underage drinking. On an individual level, nurses involved in primary prevention would teach people the benefits of healthy eating and physical activity, as well as the basics of how to achieve their health goals. These nurses might lead community outreach programs or talk at local schools. This care is usually considered to be public
The National Prevention Strategy aim is to increase the number of Americans to live healthy in every stage of their life (CDC, 2014). It provides leadership at the federal level that emphasize on prevention, wellness, and health promotion and its landmark represented in a vision, goals, strategic direction, priorities, recommendation, and act. The National preventive strategy supports the Affordable Care Act, as both of them emphasize on the importance of prevention for all Americans.
Educating tenants on their rights, housing laws, and political education, including information about local elected leaders, community boards, and local, state, and national housing agencies
Although most Resident students are in this dire category, some are flourishing, but would benefit from enriching programs to enlighten them of opportunities available. B y having an After-school program for students, both day and resident, the services provided to them will include enrichment experiences, tutoring, mentoring, job shadowing, and service learning that will foster a desire to learn more about their career options and the education that is needed in order to attain the career of their choice. All of these services will offer better opportunities for students to gain knowledge and increase their scores on the EOI tests, while simultaneously enhancing social and cultural experiences. Opportunities for adult education, including parenting classes, college funding information sessions, GED prep, and financial services will be provided in order to support the families of the students we will serve. Utilizing community partner services will broaden the scope of our students so that they have a clearer picture of what our community has to offer its stakeholders. The table below provides information on the population to be
The most prominent area I chose is prevention. I believe prevention is critical in that when we practice prevention, accidents happen less because of strategy in place. To me, this would mean taking measures to keep the acts that terrorist seek out, or the prime opportunity for a crisis to strike the United States. Gaines states that "...the country had little foundation from which to build a national prevention strategy.The country essentially started at zero, or near zero, and was told it needed to build defenses to the possibility of asymmetric terrorist attacks." (Page 6) In this quote I believe he captures the country in one sentance that emplifies how bad we needed to have prevention in the days following September eleventh.
In this paper the subject to discuss is the prevention and mitigation analysis of the Arizona Department of Correction’s Morey Unit hostage situation. This incident was very terrible in the United States history in escapes made from prisons. In Buckeye, Arizona at the Lewis Prison Correction facility in the Morey, on January 18, 2004, Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy made an attempt to escape from the unit by taking two correctional officers hostage and took over Morey’s unit tower, causing a 15-day hostage and standoff incident. The following discussion is an analysis of issues, prevention, and mitigation recommendations for future incidents aiming at fiscal, operational, and administrative problems
Why is it important to acknowledge the classifications of prevention as defined within the public health model and from the institute of Medicine in program planning?
The majority of high schools in America offer some sort of “Home Economics” course as an optional elective class, and although these classes may be very beneficial to the students’ adult development, there are still no reported cases of a mandatory, fully in-depth Home-Living course that is required for all students attending a high school. Some might ask why the course is Home-Living instead of Home Economics, and the answer to that is because the Home-Living course will exclude the previously covered information in the mandatory Financial Literacy course in order to focus strictly on the skills that are required to prosper in a healthy life. The priorities of the course should be proper education on nutrition and cooking, appliance operation, and shelter maintenance. Further explanation on nutrition and cooking should be emphasized in order to bring complete awareness of the harmful effects of obesity among young adults to ensure safe, healthy eating (qrcodestickers.org). Physical appliance operation should also be available in each Home-Living course in order to allow students to directly learn how to properly use potentially dangerous equipment such as an oven and stove, clothing iron, or sewing machine. Lessons on shelter maintenance will also influence safety for
Tertiary or the third level is helping people with long term or serious health problems. Like someone cancer, schizophrenia, heart condition or paralysis would need help to manage their conditions and to live as independent as possible.
Here at Souderton Area High School, we are exposed to classes like CHCI and Food and Nutrition where we are given the option to learn nutritional facts and then actually make food and use communication skills with the classmates. There are food and nutrition classes in some other high schools, but those classes are only offered as well and not mandatory to take. Students should have the opportunity to learn that homemade food is more nutritious and wholesome than fast food and learn some of the basics of cooking so that they can grow up to be able to provide for themselves and teach their family. If we don't start taking action, our society in America is going to continue to have unhealthy lifestyles.
Infections disease prevention and control and communicable and infectious disease risks are important topics that every student nurse should be exposed to during the nursing program. The impact and threats that these infectious diseases cause an effect on society and global level should be studied. Also, the economic principles to nursing and health care that public health contributes to.