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chapter # 8 Health promotion

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promoted clean air and hygiene during the Crimean war in the 1800s.
Florence Nightingale
Health promotion
"a strategy that aims at informing, influencing, and assisting both individuals and organizations so that they will accept more responsibility and be more active in matters affecting mental and physical health"
process of enabling or empowering people to increase control over their health and to improve their health by maximizing positive changes to their physical, economic, social, and political environments
Health promotion (again)
Health protection
involves activities focused on preventing, avoiding, or minimizing injuries that individuals have little or no control over
Disease prevention
is concerned with taking measures to prevent and control common risk factors for diseases
"Consciously constructed opportunities for learning designed to facilitate changes in behaviour towards a predetermined goal and involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, knowledge, and life skills conducive to individual and community health"
Health education is defined by WHO (1998) as
Health education is a strategy of health promotion
true
The Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model (TTM)
also known as change theory, is often used to promote positive behaviour changes. The model views health behaviour change as a cyclical phenomenon in which people progress through several stages.
(1) pre-contemplation
(2) contemplation
(3) preparation
(4) action
(5) maintenance
(6) termination.
If the person is not successful in changing behaviours, relapse occurs
The six stages of change are
The nurse's role in health promotion includes:
Molelling
facilitating
Teaching
Education
Guiding
Reinforcing
Advocating
should include the health history and physical examination, lifestyle assessment, spiritual health assessment, social support system review, and health-risk appraisal, health beliefs review, and life stress review.
Assessment
Wellness nursing diagnoses, or strength-oriented diagnoses, provide a clear focus for planning interventions and can be applied at all levels of prevention.
Analysis
Nursing Process
Assessment
Diagnosis (analysis)
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
the 3 levels of prevention during a course of a diease progression .
primary, secondary, tertiary,
activities forced on preventing, avoiding, or minimizing injuries that person have little or no control over and on preventable illness.
health protection
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