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The Importance of Health Promotion and Well Being Word Count: 2194 According to the World health organization (WHO) health can be defined as "...a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." (WHO; 1946) This definition of health is very impractical as it suggests that if a person does not poses all these qualities then they are deemed not healthy, however this notion does give us a platform to discuss what health is. The suggestion that health may be something other than the absence of illness presents a new holistic view of health, Ewles and Simnett (1985) proposed six areas of human existence in which health may be considered, social, spiritual, societal, physical, mental and emotional concepts of health. Health promotion on the other hand "is a process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health." (WHO, Ottawa Charta 1986) This suggests that health promotion is a form of health education given to patients in able to empower them to take control over their health. Health promotion aims to give equal opportunities and resources to everyone so they can take control of the things that determine their health. This essay will identify the key principles a nurse needs to carry out health promotion to enhance patient well being, it
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The essay question that I have chosen to answer is 'the government has no place interfering in people's health'. How people chose to live their own life is their own business. I have chosen to answer this question because there are good points of arguments from each different point of view. People may argue that the government does not have the right to interfere in peoples health and that they should be left alone to make their own choices about their own health. On July the 1st 2007, a smoking ban was introduced to England which meant that all enclosed public places and workplaces had to be smoke free. (www.smokefreeengland.co.uk). There are a lot of reasons why it is important that the environment should be smoke free. This law was put in place so everyone can socialise, relax, travel and shop free from second hand smoke. Sir Liam Donaldson is the chief medical officer in the UK and he said that the smoking ban is 'one of the most significant public health reforms for decades' (www.smokefreeengland.co.uk). The new law may be one of the biggest health reforms in the decade but it has had an immense effect on the public, people who smoke could argue that it is not fair to put smokers out on the street when indoor smoking rooms with air conditioning are available. Giving up smoking is extremely hard this is because a smoker is dependent on nicotine. When a person who is
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HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT by Emma Grant What is health promotion? In brief, health promotion is usually either a government initiative or commercial idea to make people aware and responsible for their own health. This can be approached by many methods such as providing information about health risks and hazards, by getting people to participate in learning techniques or organising individuals to act collectively in order to change their physical and social environments. These can be achieved through such methods as leaflets, posters, magazines, newspapers, the internet, keep fit and slimming classes and campaigns such as 'Cycle to work campaign' or 'Campaigns against phone masts'. Most promotion material is geared towards particular target groups such as teenagers, middle aged men, children, OAPs and pregnant women. The target group that I will be looking at for this project is pregnant women. My main reasons for choosing this group is because I have 3 children and understand why information to pregnant women is so important and why they are particularly vulnerable. Pregnant women are at a fairly fragile/critical part in their lives and whilst not ill, they can often be overlooked in terms of provision of health care, especially in their first trimester. I am also interested to see if or how health promotion has improved and developed since my last pregnancy. For example
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AO2 - Promoting Good Health The number of health professionals that are involved in the primary care aspects of the health service are vast. You have health visitors, midwives, practice nurses, environmental health officers, health promotion specialists and school nurses. They all prevent ill health on a number of different levels. All health workers work at promoting good health. Health promotion is about raising the health status of individuals and communities to enable people to increase control over and improve their health. Health gain, health development and health improvement are the terms that professionals often use while describing the process of working to improve people's health. There are three levels of health promotion. * Primary prevention * Secondary prevention * Tertiary prevention Primary prevention is to try and eliminate the possibility of getting a disease one way of primary prevention is to give childhood immunisations the primary care sector they immunise children against diseases such as polio, small pox, flu and MMR this is usually done by a nurse at a health centre or the individuals GP surgery. This is to prevent the disease manifesting not only in that one child but throughout the country taking the number of cases of fatal childhood dieses down dramatically.
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In this unit I will be planning, carrying out and evaluating a health promotion. A health promotion is "a wide range of activities, all of which have a part to play in promoting health" (Moonie, 2005, p146). I will decide upon an area to promote which is relevant to myself and those in my life, then I will decide on which approach I will use to get my message across. I will look at my target group and make my campaign appropriate to that group. Once I have completed my campaign, I will evaluate my success. I have chosen testicular cancer as my topic. This form of cancer develops from within the cells in the testes. It usually presents as a lump in the testicle. If the cancer is not treated, cancer cells can spread to the lymph nodes or other organs. Cases of testicular cancer are rising dramatically. At present there are about 2,000 cases a year in the UK (Everyman, Online). Testicular cancer is the most common cancer amongst young men. Between the age of 15 and 50 about 1 in 500 develop the disease. A simple check done regularly, about once a month, can help detect early signs of the disease. The treatment at this stage is much simpler and the cure rate is more than 99%. There is also a good chance there will be no further problems (Orchid cancer, Online). My husband, stepsons and male friends all fall into this age range. This is my target group. I discussed the subject
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Health promotion is the process of promoting health it enables the local population to be aware of policies and to promote the improvement in the standard of living. There are many added values of health awareness policies and iniatives. Health promotion enables people to take control and be aware in order to improve health. It is important for a person to reach a state of mind were he is able to identify and be able to cope with the environment to satisfy and to change. Eliminating and solving disease does not necessarily mean that you have created health and happiness. Individuals would respond to the expression of health and happiness and respond to challenge they meet in every day life. There are different models of health promotion. Individuals have to clarify their own aim and value. Associations or organisations promoting health use an approach, which is suited to their career. Careful considerations take place because it has to facilitate the clients need. In order to do this assessments are taken to ensure that the client is receiving the right help. In 1958 Doll and Hill proved that there is a link between smoking and lung cancer. Doll and Hill found that smoking can cause cancer of the lungs, chronic bronchitis, coronary artery disease and others. In the U.S.A research on smoking was done on a large scale. It was convincing to see the statistics from these cohort
Promoting good health- Health promotion evaluation
Hollie Jenkins Unit 3: promoting good health A04 A04: Evaluation of health promotion campaign A04A: In this section of my promoting good health coursework, I am going to evaluate the impact of my health promotion campaign. Did we achieve the aims set out in our plan? The first aim of our health promotion campaign was to get out audience to think about their health and their lifestyles. In my opinion, I believe that we achieved this aim as during our campaign our audience responded well and was engaged in the discussions of activities which were aimed at them having to think about their health and lifestyles. Our audience were also very keen to answer our questionnaire’s which showed us that that were genuinely interested in our campaign topic. Judging by the amount of feedback which we received from our audience, we met this aim as our feedback suggests that the majority of our audience learnt something new from our campaign which shows that our audience were encouraged to think about their health and lifestyles. The other aim of our campaign was to raise awareness of the importance of eating a healthy diet and participating in enough regular exercise. In my opinion we also achieved this aim as we were able to educate our audience and raise awareness amongst our audience of the importance of eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly. As part of spreading awareness
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Concepts of Health, Health Care And Health Promotion.
South Bank University Number: 9905890 May 2000: Group 3 Unit 6 Concepts of Health, Health Care and Health Promotion. Personal Tutor: Alma Ramanuth Word Count: 1,647 ? Concepts of Health, Health Care And Health Promotion. ? Unit 6 CONTENTS TITLE PAGE 2 CONTENTS 3 ASSIGNMENT ESSAY 4 APPENDIX 14 REFERENCE 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY 19 Word count (excluding references and charts) 1,647 "Making the healthy choice the easier choice" (Milio1986 cited in Naidoo J, Wills J. 2000: 84) Health promotion has come a long way since the 'Band of Hope' lectured young people on the "virtue of abstinence ", in the late eighteen hundreds (Naidoo J, Wills J. 2000: 72). The emphasis was on reform or damnation, after nearly a century of telling people what not to do attitudes began changing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend "advocacy, enablement, and mediation " as effective methods (Baric L. 1996:129), defining modern health promotion as, "...the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health." (Ewles L, Simnett I. 1999: 23) Nurses are ideal health promoters as they are present at significant moments in their patients' lives (DoH 1999:132); they have long been required to be competent in "advising on the promotion of health and the prevention of illness..." (Statutory
Explain mental health promotion.
Question: Explain Mental Health Promotion It is a well-known fact that the suicide rate amongst teenagers in Australia is one of the highest in the world and (1). Bearing this in mind it is imperative that we begin to recognize the contributing factors that lead to depression and suicide amongst our teenagers and develop a plan to reduce these statistics and their impact on our nation. There are many definitions of mental health promotion, essentially it is promoting mental well-being, by increasing public awareness and establishing programs to support individuals and communities. This advocacy is necessary to address the modifiable determinants of health, which include socio-economic background, home environment, education, employment, work conditions and accessibility of health. Traditionally mental health services were isolated from mainstream health services and society this created a stigma and resulted in this group being one of the most disadvantaged groups (2). The Victorian Mental Health Promotion Foundation has put together a mental health promotion framework whereby in consultation with over one hundred organizations from a variety of sectors have identified three factors that significantly influence mental health. These include: social connectedness, valuing diversity and economic participation. Mental Health Promotion Framework Determinants of
