Week 9- program planning Flashcards
Health Promotion in Community Health Nursing
CHN embraces health promotion through the concept of social justice
HP strategies and interventions seek to enable individuals, families and entire communities to prevent, enhance, maintain or restore health across the lifespan (Canadian Nurses Association, 2012)
Health Promotion
“process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health” (WHO, 2009, p 1).
This is much, much more than simply health education
Health Education
About providing health information and knowledge to individuals and communities
Helps enable individuals to adopt healthy behaviours voluntarily
Helps influence attitudes
Health Promotion
More comprehensive approach
Involves multi-sectoral key stakeholders
Addresses: advocacy, economics, capacity building, legislative changes, research and building partnerships….to name a few
What is health promotion?
Health promotion is any combination of health, education, economic, political, spiritual or organizational initiative designed to bring about positive attitudinal, behavioural, social or environmental changes conducive to improving the health of populations.
Health Promotion
- Mediating strategy between people & their environments.
- Based in the socio-environmental approach to health.
- A holistic view of health.
- Participation.
- DOH must be considered.
- Build on existing strengths and assets.
- Use multiple strategies.
Foundational Concepts in Health Promotion
Injury prevention Disease Illness Disease prevention Health protection Healthy public policy Risk avoidance Risk reduction Health enhancement Resiliency Risk factors Protective factors Health literacy Advocacy
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion 1986
5 major strategies to promote health. Build healthy public policy. Create supportive environments. Strengthen community action. Develop personal skills. Reorient health services.
Population Health Approach
1- focus on the health of populations
2- address the DOH and their interactions
3- base decisions on evidence
4- increase upstream investments
5- apply multiple interventions and strategies
6- collaborate across sectors and levels
7- employ mechanisms for public involvement
8-demonstrate accountability for health outcomes
Population Health
is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups.
Community Mobilization
A process of activating a community to achieve public policy and/or enhance the capacity of a community to sustain a positive change.
This is what you want to achieve with your community.
Community Engagement
Social, economic and environmental causes of health and illness
• Assets and strengths of individuals and communities
• Participatory approaches that build the capacity of individuals and communities to address their health concerns
Community Health Program Planning
Health program planning is a sequence of decisions ranging from broad strategies such as goals, to specific objectives that depend on the gathering and analysis of various types of information collected from a variety of ways
Health Program Planning
Can also be referred to as health program management
Addresses issues of populations; applied to programs rather than clients
Consists of four steps
Assessing
Planning
Implementing
Evaluating
Community Health Program Planning
Consists of rational decision making system to help CHN’s know:
When to make a decision to develop a health program
Where they want to be at the end of the health program
What to do to have a successful health program
How to develop a plan to go from where they are to where they want to be
How to know that they are getting to their destination
How to implement the program plan
What to measure to know whether what they are doing is appropriate
Health program
“Consists of a variety of planned activities to address the assessed health concerns of clients over time and builds on client strengths in order to meet specific goals and objectives”
PATCH model
Planning Approach to Community Health; increases capacity of members of the community and empowers them to participate; applicable to addressing specific health issues of a community
Program Logic Model (PLM)
Use in health care as a communication tool to depict the community health program planning process and components in diagrammatic form
Health program..
An organized approach to meet the assessed concerns of individuals, families, groups, or communities by reducing or eliminating one or more health concerns and building on client strengths
Simply: a collection of activities intended to produce particular results
Remember that communities are partners in programming, not just recipients!!!