Health Promotion Flashcards
What is Health Promotion?
Increasing optimal health for your patients, you, & whoever? Also involves giving the pts. control over their own health. They more they know about healthy practices, the better choices they will make.
What does World Health Organization do?
WHO organization is a global group to help improve health. Health promotion is allowing individuals to increase control over & to improve health.
-Health promotion involves health wellness, disease, & illness.
What is health?
-A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO, 1947, 2018).
-A state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality, & lifestyle.
What is an illness?
State in which a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired.
-Acute illness (short duration & not severe). Ex. Flu (Any type of virus or cold that can cause sickness.) Pneumonia
-Chronic illness (longer than 6 months/affects functioning.) Ex. COPD w/ acute problem-treat acute problem first
What is the scope of Health Promotion?
-Behaviors that promote optimal health across the lifespan within an individual, family, community, population, & environment.
-Categories of Health Promotion involve different preventions: Primary, Secondary (Screening), & Tertiary Prevention
What is Primary Prevention?
-Education & teaching on how to stay healthy & keeping them from getting problems(in schools, routine doctor visits, community)
-Vaccinations, Teaching about exercise to people that don’t have a problem with weight
-Ex. Use of car seat, family planning, tobacco cessation, child hood planning, Sex education
What is Secondary Prevention?
-Reduce impact of disease or injury that has occurred already-Mammograms, pap smear, & Lab Work-Early prevention
-Ex. obese pt. on health class for what to eat & lose weight, Diabetes-Class on how to eat, or control it before heart disease, & limbs being removed, Colonoscopy, Work modification, aspirin
What is Tertiary prevention?
-When they have the disease process want to manage symptoms. Ex. Stroke-managing problem/symptoms/cardiac problems/diabetes
What all is included in Primary Prevention?
-Education-Regular check up, immunizations
-Screening-Educating on importance of screening along with the proper timing for them, ages (mammogram, colonoscopies, & inquiring about family history
-Nutritional Health-Education on obesity & healthy food alternatives for a healthy weight person.
-Physical Activity-Teaching about what they should be doing
What all is included in Tertiary Prevention?
-Education-Disease management; They already have something & you are just educating on how to manage what’s going on (COPD, Diabetes, & B/P.)
-Screening-Blood sugar checks for someone with diabetes. Routine B/P checks for someone taking B/P meds.
-Nutritional Health-Balanced diet, limitations, & healthy alternatives/Hypertension-Cardiac diet
-Physical Activity-Exercise based on individual’s needs & expectations.
First Element of Health Promotion
Optimalization of health focusing on maintaining high levels of wellness, measures to prevent illness, & strategies to for early detection & management of disease when it occurs.
Second Element of Health Promotion
Evidence: Health promotion guidelines are based on evidence, for this reason, recommendations are periodically updated to reflect new knowledge generated through research efforts.
-Preventative Service Task Force researches the best way to handle the problem.
Third Element of Health Promtion
Patient/Community Centered: On individual level, personal motivation to incorporate the strategies is required. On a community level, leadership from individuals within the community is needed for successful implementation.
-Must be done to see what the patient desires or wishes for.
Fourth Element of Health Promtion
Enculturation-Designing & implementing health promotion require cultural competence & sensitivity to differences among cultures.
-Knowing different cultures & being more in lined to what that culture represents to teach them. Look at beliefs, attitudes, like Jehovah witnessed don’t believe in blood transfusions-so you wouldn’t give that.
United States Preventative Task Force
*USPSTF Tasked to research for us. On recommendations: I-Insufficient evidence to recommend for or against them, A-best grade for problem now of importance
Ex. On Folic Acid Supplementation to Prevent Neural Tube Defects: Prevention Medication
-Optimizing health (Measures to maintain health)-For mothers to take folic acid 0.4-0.8 mg.
-Evidence- All persons who are planning to or could become pregnant should take a daily supplement or multivitamin containing 0.4 to 0.8 mg (400 to 800 μg) of folic acid.
-Patient/Community Centered-Pregnant women
