ESSAY : Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Overview:
Create an educational program, event, or piece of literature (for example, a pamphlet) that incorporates best practices in health promotion and disease prevention for a diverse population. Then, explain how you developed your educational program, event, or piece of literature and address any barriers to disease prevention and health promotion for the population.

Context:
From your own professional experiences, as well as your work in this program, you have come to recognize that the goal of community or public health nursing is to improve and maintain the health status of individuals and families; cultural, racial, and ethnic groups; and communities and populations.
Caring for a population involves identifying the factors that place at risk a population\’s health, as well as developing specific interventions to address those factors. The roles of nurses in this regard include preventing illness and injury, teaching clients, promoting wellness, surveilling disease, shaping and formulating health care policy, collaborating and partnering with communities, advocating for clients, evaluating nursing care, and promoting positive client outcomes.
In addition, the use of evidence-based strategies and models facilitates the successful implementation of nursing interventions or health programs, along with the tools and methods to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency, and appropriateness of nursing-care processes and outcomes.
Part I
To prepare for the first part of the assessment, complete the following:
1. Review the literature or use health assessments to determine health care needs of a diverse population in your community.
2. Explore things that could influence success, such as cultural attitudes toward alternative forms of healing, religious beliefs, or other individuals.
3. Examine the impact of current health promotion and wellness initiatives on health outcomes and health disparities.
4. Review the literature to identify best practices.
Once you have identified a diverse population, develop an educational program, event, or piece of literature that promotes wellness and disease prevention. If you choose an educational program or event, be sure you outline the basic content of the program or event, as well as how you would structure it. If you choose a piece of literature, be deliberate in the points you highlight. Be sure that your choice is appropriate for the population.
• For an educational program or event, prepare and submit an outline of the content and structure.
• For a brochure or pamphlet, prepare and submit the brochure or pamphlet using a simple Word document or a Microsoft Publisher document, if you have that software available.
Part II
Explain how you developed your educational program, event, or piece of literature and address any barriers to disease prevention and health promotion for the population.
Complete the following:
1. Explain why you chose the particular educational strategy. Why is it an effective strategy for the population?
2. Describe cultural barriers to disease prevention and health promotion in the population. This might include things such as CAM, language, religious beliefs, and so on.
3. Explain how your educational strategy can help overcome some of the barriers you described.
4. Evaluate how well health promotion and wellness strategies positively impact health outcomes and health disparities at the local, national, and global levels. Can you find evidence that health promotion and wellness strategies have had a positive effect on health outcomes and health disparities at the local, national, and global levels?
5. Support your work with valid scholarly resources.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health promotion is vital in addressing health problems for vulnerable population, especially the older adults. The quality of health must be maintained at the globally accepted level to enable the population supports their social and physical wellbeing. However, the quality of health delivered to individuals is determined by various factors such as socioeconomic status, political circumstances, consumption trends, demographic characteristics, family and social values as well as cultural beliefs and practices. In such a situation, healthcare promotion and disease prevention can only be addressed effectively by adopting holistic approaches to empower communities and encouraging individuals to embrace a healthy lifestyle.
The healthcare department can achieve this by fostering leadership in public health, creating a sustainable healthcare system and promoting inter-sectorial actions to develop workable policies in all sectors that support healthcare delivery. Therefore, the efforts of improving healthcare and preventing diseases entail supportive activities by individuals, government, community and the institutions involved. This is because the concept of…