Health Promotion Intervention Plan
Heart disease and Stroke intervention are most effective when combined with other strategies, for instance, changing attitudes, behavior, and knowledge as well as increase healthy eating, physical activity and health care services in the community, in addition of social and nutritional support for eating balanced meals, getting physical activity and quitting cigarette smoking (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention –CDC, 2015).
It is important to assess the community’s readiness before beginning the intervention plan which will lead to successful intervention and great chance of positive outcome. First of all, community’s interest must be assessed and addressed for the priority health issue, as well as
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Furthermore, patient will benefit from the brief one on one session, as well as follow up, additional cholesterol screening, and education based upon cholesterol levels (Germane, Sloan, Shepherd & et al. 2014).
Evaluation
The intervention can be measure by a cardiovascular risk factor questionnaire, dietary changes questionnaire and vital signs such as weight, height, cholesterol levels, blood pressure. Patient can self-report on diet changes and smoking secession behaviors (Germane, Sloan, Shepherd & et al. 2014).
Intervention
Community-based cardiovascular disease risk prevention; the purpose is to decrease mortality and morbidity due to heart disease and stroke in rural community areas. The intervention strategies are campaigns and promotions, educational groups, individual education, environments and policies (Healthy People 2020, 2015).
Campaigns and promotions such as posters, weekly newspaper column on heart disease and prevention, local churches with volunteers and coalition groups sponsored on Sundays Healthy Heart Sermons.
Community education groups sponsored aerobic exercise classes, healthy cooking demonstrations, walking and fitness paths
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Education on behavior change with focus on dietary risk on food categories such as dairy, meat, starches and fats, as well as offer pamphlet, brochure, cookbooks and recipes with suggestions, support, and encouragement to individuals , who is trying to change his or her lifestyle through diet modification and follow up discussion by phone. In addition, provide one-on-one assistance for those individuals with low literacy (Fuster, 2014).
Evaluation
Health care provider interviews, knowledge questions, and dietary behavior attitude can be an important method and measures of improvement by demonstrating a highly significant increase his/her feelings of self-efficacy regarding dietary counseling and interest, and compliance (2014).
Expected Outcomes
The increase in cholesterol screening suggests that a community level reduction in cardiovascular disease risk may be achievable through low cost intervention combined with education efforts and compliance. Moreover, this is a cost effective and health promotion program, which can be provide by nurse or health educators rather the physician
This may also convince family and friends that the campaign is worthwhile and they should join in. This will create a positive subject norm as people are influencing them and then that individual is more incline to follow the health advice given to them.
Preventive health care involves a wide range of interventions which help for maintaining good health habits, reducing the incidence of disease and disability, and slowing the progress of illnesses. These interventions can include providing childhood immunizations, raising taxes on cigarettes,
* Explain individuals about the importance of a healthy diet and encourage and support the m to choose healthy options and alternatives.
According to Rural Health Information Hub (2017), the fundamental purpose of disease prevention is to keep individuals healthy. One implements health promotion interventions in an effort to promote healthy behaviors and to decrease the risks of developing chronic illnesses (RHIH, 2017). According to the ADA (2016) individuals that participate in health promotion behaviors are more likely to have better health outcomes compared to those who do not. The EBP change project has shown that educating patients with prediabetes can increase diabetes knowledge and promote an increase in health promotion behaviors. The EBP change project outcome has indicated that participants who completed the 6-week diabetes education program were able to increase their knowledge regarding type 2 diabetes. Therefore, with the positive outcome of the EBP change project, the EBP change project site can incorporate certain aspects of the diabetes education program into their patient education to increase diabetes knowledge, picking healthier food options and participants in activities that would increase physical fitness.
Like never before have there been so many demands or efforts on those in health care to facilitate behavior changes, or so many potential strategies from which to choose from. Health care professionals now realize that multiple interventions at multiple levels are often needed to initiate and sustain behavior change in their patients, in their community, in their family and ultimately in their own lives. Behavior change is our best hope in reducing problems such as preventable diseases, chronic illnesses, health disparities, violence, and death around the world. In this Age of Information, where society has shifted to an economy based on information computerization, gamification has become a prevalent force in promoting such changes.
The first short-term goal is to decrease obesity. Interventions for this goal are nutrition education, weight loss programs, and increasing physical activity. The second short-term goal is to decrease the incidence of hypertension. Interventions for this goal are regular blood pressure screenings, treatment of people with hypertension, and improve medication access. The third short-term goal is to decrease cholesterol. Interventions for this goal are regular cholesterol screenings, diet education regarding high risk foods, and treatment of people with high
Although the term cardiovascular disease refers to a disorder of the cardiovascular system, it is usually associated with atherosclerosis, also known as arterial disease. It is considered the leading cause of deaths in the world, taking 17.1 million lives a year. There are only a few factors that are non-modifiable, these being the persons age, gender, family history and their race and ethnicity. Although there are non-modifiable risk factors, there are multiple multiple risk factors that are modifiable that anyone can use to prevent getting any type of cardiovascular disease. These people just need to have the motivation to be able to change themselves and their lifestyles in order to better
However, this can be hard to promote if a community such as Germantown experiences such health disparities that puts them at risk for chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity, all of which could be preventable. Therefore, as nurses we can intervene and plan ways to improve the health of Germantown in the most realistic way possible. The nursing intervention to help try and eliminate the health disparity of knowledge deficit related to nutritious foods primarily focuses on education, as it is a primary means of impacting change. Our intervention would be implemented through an educational program at multiple community locations such as school or churches. The program would consist of weekly meetings discussing the characteristics of a healthy diet, how to read food labels correctly, picking the right food choices based on the options available in the community, and informing the participants about the impacts nutrition has on health such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Each session would encompass pre-briefing followed by demonstration of healthy food recipes and then a debriefing to reiterate the importance of that session. Through education, we hope to impact more people of Germantown to use the public transportation to shop at the local farmer's market or supermarkets and have a positive change in their health. Therefore, there shall be a decreased incidence in obesity, hypertension, and diabetes and increase in the community’s knowledge about obtaining nutritional
It is significant in underserved communities and it is most preventable. The risk factors to name a few are high blood pressure, poor diet & physical inactivity and obesity. It is pivotal to address these risks to prevent heart failure and strokes. The risk is controllable if certain life style changes are made. More than one in three adults which is 81.1 million lives with heart disease. In the Healthy people 2020 statistics the target for deaths caused by heart disease and stroke has declined from 1999 and 2011 from 194.6 to 109.2 deaths per 100,000 populations. This shows some progress. To maximize these results I would push for promotion of healthy eating habits and physical activities for people of all ages in underserved communities along with education specifically for unfortunate people.
patient that has CHD, (Coronary Heart Disease) and explore the psychological approach to altering the patients perceptions of health promotion, and interventions that are used to facilitate a better quality of health. The author will also examine public health legislation on current health and social care provisions, and evaluate the role of models of health within diverse promotions in practice.
5. Heart Disease and Stroke- Through prevention, discovery and treatment of risk factors for heart disease increases cardiovascular health and improve the quality of life. Risk factors leading to heart disease and strokes are changes in the heart and blood vessels. Education in healthy foods, diets and exercise can decrease a potential heart attack or stroke. (Healthy People, n.d.).
Efforts towards health promotion can be ineffective at times therefore interception level of preventive health promotion is
Like someone born with heat defects will probably undergo surgical options but someone with plaque in his or her heart can adopt heathy lifestyle, quit smoking, lower cholesterol, be physically active, maintain a heathy weight if individual is overweight or obese; all of the these are high risks factors. My community will work with Government agencies to adopt food service and nutrition standards to the community, my team in collaboration with NGOs will create awareness about benefit of physically active daily. We will partners with schools in the community about training and education. My community men no doubt have mid-section torment than women, from 45 years for men while ladies is 55 years to be at danger of coronary illness. Coronary illness is frenzy among white men at 8.5% while Africa American are 7.9% and others are 6.3%. These progressing community health alleviation with joint effort with different NGOs, Nonprofit Organization and Government agencies procedure will keeps running for three months however certain projects will be on going thing to maintain what on what has been
However, most of these interventions are on short term basis for changing the attitude of the community, will benefit people for a long term as they lead them to a proper channel based on their situation. The outcomes can be evaluated on follow-up sessions after the initial assessment. People with high risk for coronary heart diseases will refer for more assessment and as they are in contact with the health professional, they will have more access to related educations. Local news channels and local medias will be encouraged to offer more education related to the issue as pert of their health programs. Churches, community centers, and schools will be encouraged to offer group exercise or peer support sessions by the help of volunteer in order to expose the community to more information and
Health promotion aims a wide range of targets at different levels in the community. The huge benefits resulted from health promotion and disease prevention efforts make many realize that this domain of health care is worth to be invested in. The focus is shifted evermore from the medical to the preventative approach, from treating the disease to avoiding the onset of it.