Health Promotion (Community Health Nursing)

Health Promotion (Community Health Nursing)

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  HEALTH PROMOTION AND MAINTAINANCE PreparedBy : Mrs. Leena Sameep Sakpal. Nursing Tutor RN, P.B.B.Sc.Nursing
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  HEALTH PROMOTION
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  INTRODUCTION • Health promotionenables to increase control over their own health. • It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure.
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  DEFINITION “It is theprocess of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants and thereby improve their health.” - By WHO (2005)
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  GOALS • To createenvironments that allow all the ability to access all needed services. • To equip with the skills to determine their own health needs.
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  HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGIES • ProperHealth System • Safe environment • Public participation • Information and Education • Health Research • Welfare programmes • Healthy lifestyles
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  HEALTH MAINTAINANCE
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  DEFINITION “Health maintenance (orhealth protection) refers to activities that preserve an individual’s present state of health and that prevent disease or injury occurrence.” • Examples of these activities include: Developmental screening or surveillance to identify early deviations from normal development, providing immunizations to prevent illnesses, and teaching about common childhood safety hazards.
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  COMPONENTS OD HEALTHMAINTENACE • Contact with the family • General observation • Physical activity • Oral hygiene • Nutrition • Growth and Development surveillance • Mental and Spiritual health • Disease prevention strategies • Injury prevention strategies
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  NURSES ROLE • Modelhealthy lifestyle behaviors and attitudes. • Facilitate client involvement in the assessment, implementation and evaluation of health goal. • Teach client health care strategies to enhance fitness improve nutrition ,manage stress and enhance relationships. • Assist individuals, families and communities to increase their levels of health.
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  • Educate clientto be effective health care consumers . • Assist clients ,families and communities to develop and choose health promoting options. • Guide client's development in effective problem solving and decision making. • Reinforce clients personal and family health promoting behaviors. • Advocate in the community for changes that promote a healthy environment.
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  PRINCIPLES • Health promotioninvolves the population as a whole in the context of their everyday life, rather than focusing on people at risk from specific diseases. • Health promotion is directed towards action on the determinants or cause of health. • Health promotion is primarily a societal and political venture and not medical service.
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  • Health promotionaims particularly at effective and concrete public participation. This requires the further development of problem-defining and decision-making life skills, both individually and collectively, and the promotion of effective participation mechanisms. • Health promotion combines diverse, but complementary methods or approaches including communication, education, community development and spontaneous local activities against health hazards.