1. Nola Pender
Health Promotion
Theory

2.  Dr. Pender has been a nurse educator for
over forty years. Throughout her career.
 She taught baccalaureate masters, and
PhD students.
 She also mentored a number of
postdoctoral fellows.
 In 1998, she received the Mae Edna Doyle
Teacher of the Year award from the
University of Michigan School of Nursing.
 She currently serves as a Distinguished
Professor at Loyola University Chicago,
School of Nursing.

3.  She was the lady that started
the Health Promotion Model
in Nursing Care .
 She was born in August 16,1941
at Lansing, Michigan

4. II. Data:
 Features:
This model is based on the idea that human
beings are rational, and will seek their
advantage in health.
But the nature of this rationality is tightly
bounded by things like self-esteem, perceived
advantages of healthy behaviour
, psychological states and previous behaviour.

5. As for the medical profession in
general, the main purpose here is not
merely to cure disease, but to
promote healthy lifestyles and choices
that affect the health of individuals.

6. Function:
The central function of this
theory is to show the individual
as self-determining, but as also
determined by personal history
and general personal
characteristics.

7.  Health is a dynamic process,
not a static state.
 Health, to put it differently is
a lifestyle conditioned by a
number of choices made by
the individual to actually live
a health lifestyle.

8. Effects:
The man effect of Pender’s
model is that it puts the onus
of healthcare reform on the
person, not on the profession.

9.  Healthcare is a series of intelligent
, rational choices that promote
health concerning things like
diet, exercise and positive
thinking. All of this are choices
and ingredients in living healthy.

10. Unhealthy lifestyle, in other
words, are the result of
distorted thinking that may
derive from ignorance of
lack of self-esteem.

11. If these thoughts can be
reformed (which is itself a life-
long process ), then rational
choices can take their
place, leading to a truly
healthy lifestyle.

12. Significance:
health is up to the person. The
significance here is that the
medical profession is not really
not the main ingredient in
living a healthy lifestyle.

13. They might be an
important part, but
always serve a secondary
role to the basic rational
choices of healthy living.

14. The health profession, in
other words, is useless unless
individuals reform their own
lives and perception of what
is healthy.

15. Considerations:
A rational alternative to
dependency on the medical
profession is the of a
rational, i.e., healthy, life.

16. • A healthy lifestyle is the
ultimate antidote to rising
healthcare costs, since a
rational population is a healthy
one, which would naturally
drive down healthcare costs.

17. oPender is an advocate of
preventive medicine, which
is another word for
rational, healthy thinking
and therefore healthy and
rational living.

18. III. Contributions:
Pender’s Healthy Promotion Model:
Promotes healthy behaviors and
encourages interpersonal guidance
for the advancement of self-efficacy.
Interpersonal reactions between
nurses, community leaders and
individuals to prevent disease.

19. 2 Concepts:
1.Health Promotion
 is defined as behaviour
motivated by the desire to
increase well-being and actualize
human health potential. It is an
approach to wellness.

20. 2. Health protection or illness
Prevention is described as
behaviour motivated desire to
actively avoid illness, detect it
early, or maintain functioning
within the constraints of illness.

21.  The major concepts and definitions of
health promotion model:
 Individual characteristics and
experience
 Prior related behaviour
 Frequency of the similar behaviour in
the past. Direct and indirect effects in
on the likelihood of engaging in
health promoting behaviours

22.  Personal factors
 Personal factors categories as biological,
psychological and socio-cultural. These factors
are predictive of a given behaviour and
shaped by the nature of the target
behaviour
Personal biological factor
 Includes variables such as age gender body
mass index pubertal status, aerobic capacity,
strength , agility, or balance.

23. Personal psychological factors:
 Include variables such as self-
esteem, self motivation, personal
competence perceived health
status and definition of health
 Personal socio-cultural factors
 Include such as race
ethnicity, acculturation, education
and socio economic status.

24. Behavioural specific cognition and effect
Heath promoting behaviour:
 endpoint or action outcome directed
towards attaining positive health outcome
such as optional well being personal
fulfilment and productive living.

25. Thank you!