Theory Analysis: Health Promotion Teaching Plan

In this unit I am going to explain three different approaches to promoting Health Education the three approaches I am going to explain are Mass Media, Community development and Two way Communication.

Throughout this coursework I will be writing about different life-stages of my chosen celebrity. My chosen celebrity is Michael Jackson. I will start with physical development and go through intellectual, emotional and social developments.

Health Promotion is a fundamental practise in ensuring optimum population health. In this essay I will be discussing the ‘settings’ based approach (SBA) of Health Promotion (HP) as a process for achieving sustainable improvements in health outcomes. I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the approach in relation to key movements which demonstrate the method in action.

The aim of this case based study, is to Promote Health and behaviour changes within the work place,

For many years, health promotions and prevention has been the focus for healthcare providers, especially nurses. Health promotion seeks to improve a person or population’s health by teaching about and helps people become more aware of risky behaviors associated with different diseases. It encourages individuals to take preventative measures to prevent onset or worsening of a disease or illness. It encourages a healthier lifestyle (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The strategy is to help people make health improvements or prevention before illness occurs.

The health promotion practicum course helped me explore around town in finding places to do my internship under a licensed Physical Therapy. I took this course since the class can help me discover my own self and see if I am choosing the right path for myself in the future. I did an internship when I was in the community college with my human services course. I volunteered at the activities stations at Hilo Medical Center and worked with nurses. I knew back than, I did not see myself as a Nurse, and that’s where I noticed a Physical therapist and witness up hand, in what they do. From there, I changed my track and I knew I would rather help people in a difference aspect compared to a nurse.

The purpose of this group task was to implement a health-promoting strategy in adolescents to improve or maintain their well-being, this health-promoting strategy had to be based off a contemporary health issue adolescents faced in their daily lives. The issue my group decided to investigate was fitness in adolescents and we did this because in a previous health assignment we found out that obesity is a major problem for Australians in this day and age, statistics show that a quarter of all Australians are obese or overweight. These statistics prompted us to target the issue of fitness because we realised that being physically inactive and unfit at a young age usually leads to being obese when you are older. The age group we targeted was 13-15-year-olds

“Health is defined as a state of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO). Like wise health promotion is the process of increasing the functional capacity of all people hence promote the sense of well-being. In order to accomplish this goal all health care professionals have to work hard by submitting themselves to their patients and community as a whole. Thus globalize health promotion should be the ultimate mission for all health care team, especially for nurses. Nurses are the first level health care team therefore nurses should play as a role model to all human beings. They should hold various positions in order to achieve optimum results. In this evolving health industry

My patient CB is a 23-year-old healthy male that has been a friend for many years. CB has been chewing since he was 15 and he currently goes through five cans of chew per week.

The definition of health is changeable by the trend of time, background, culture, individuals and so on. " Health is a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person's potential and is experienced within a developmental context " (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2010). Therefore, utilizing personal characters and cultural differences combine with the definition of health to set up the goal of health promotion and illness prevention- based education is pivotal.

Often in practice, we as nurses deal with a variety of diseases and treatments and often have to react to the illness that the patient presents with upon our interaction. While this is an essential piece of our practice, we also have a duty to our patients to be proactive in preventing specific health-related consequences based on their risk factors and to promote their health and well being. Health promotion as it relates to nursing is about us empowering our patients to increase their control over their lives and well beings and includes: focusing on their health not just illness, empowering our patients, recognizing that health involves many dimensions and is also effected by factors outside of their control (Whitehead et al. 2008)..

4. Bowman AM. Promoting safe exercise and foot care for clients with type 2 diabetes. Can Nurse. 2008; 104

· Guidelines for good nutrition and exercise: eat a variety of foods every day to include, fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Decrease the amount of fatty, sugary foods and drinks consumed. Drink more water. Get 30-60 minutes of exercise daily.

“The major goals of health promotion are to help people of all ages stay healthy, optimize health in cases of chronic disease or disability, and create healthy environments” (Pender et al., 2015). This health promotion project is designed to identify and reduce the risk factors associated with several illnesses and disease processes. This project will focus on changing lifestyle behaviors and providing up to date education for the patient to make the best informed decision regarding her environment, health behaviors, and developing a support system with her primary care physician.

Health promotion is a key theme of medicine and health care. Regular physical activeness is a health promotion activity that brings a lot of benefits and also protects against many problems. Regular Physical activity is the body movement produced by skeletal muscles and requires more energy expenditure. Exercise, walking, running etc. are examples of physical activity. When a human becomes active the chemicals called endorphins are released in the human brain and these endorphins reduces the risk of diseases like heart, high blood pressure, lungs, diabetes, bones, muscles, and cancer. Moreover, these chemical have a positive effect on human’s mood. Together with that physical activity helps in maintaining a healthy weight and as a result, it