Health Promotional Strategies For promotional programs to be effective, the health promotional programs must be promoted in a manner that reaches the mass general public. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so forth create highly interactive platforms in which individuals and communities not only to share and voice their opinions and concerns, but could also serves as an outlet for informational distribution pertaining to health promotional programs. Social media compliments existing promotion strategies as the public platforms are becoming increasingly used among the majority of society’s age and ethnic groups. By investing in social media presence, health promotional programs would be capable in utilizing this platform in order to create an impact among individuals and the general community (Ramanadhan, Mendez, Rao, & Viswanath, 2013). Social media alone cannot adequately advocate and make an impact for communities towards active living. As noted by Jackson, Perkins, Khandor, Cordwell, Hamannm & Buasai (2007), “no strategy stands on its own as a clear success –they all need to act in conjunction with each other and certain supporting actions in order to be effective” (p. 82). Organizers must be willing to work closely with the …show more content…
Health promotional programs cannot be successful unless the program itself allows for a self-evaluation process. The implementation of an evaluation process allows for the assessment on determining how effective the current health promotional program is in achieving the proposed and anticipated end goals for individuals as well as the general community. The evaluation for the active living program also allows for the identification of ways to improve the currently implemented
Often in practice, we as nurses deal with a variety of diseases and treatments and often have to react to the illness that the patient presents with upon our interaction. While this is an essential piece of our practice, we also have a duty to our patients to be proactive in preventing specific health-related consequences based on their risk factors and to promote their health and well being. Health promotion as it relates to nursing is about us empowering our patients to increase their control over their lives and well beings and includes: focusing on their health not just illness, empowering our patients, recognizing that health involves many dimensions and is also effected by factors outside of their control (Whitehead et al. 2008)..
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D.P. receives an abundance of support in her life. She finds most of her motivation from her family because family means the world to her. The members in her family will encourage her to do her best along with attending diabetic information groups. She finds the support and motivation from her family to be a great way to help deal with her diabetes. Other family members who have diabetes or know someone else with diabetes helps her realize that this is not necessarily an ending of freedom or her life. The health care professionals also have an impact on D.P.’s motivational level as they give her options and techniques to improve her ways of living in order to cope with diabetes. Fox and Chesla (2008) see the positive inspirational outcome a
Safe staffing issue has been identified as one of the problem in health care. The problem resulted from the inappropriate ratio between the nurse and the number of patients a nurse takes care within a shift. Patients and nurses well-being are being at risk because of the inappropriate safe staffing because of nurses feeling overwhelmed and stressed with their job. It was learned from the previous papers that the issue with staff level can be intervened by applying the theory of Health Promotion Model as a framework in assisting nurse leaders in creating policies that ensure healthy and appropriate work practices, determine the appropriate number of nurse to
The purpose of the scholarly paper part two is to demonstrate the completion of the evidence-based homeless health promotion project; it is specific to the population living in Miami, Florida. Part two of the project presents evidence-based interventions to address measurable and unfavorable health outcomes associated with risk factors that were identified in part one of the project. Also, health promotion project evaluation will be provided.
As part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative, a national goal has been set to improve the health and well-being of women, infants, children, and families. This is an important public health movement considering their well-being determines the health of the next generation and can help predict future public health challenges for families, communities, and the health care system. Since there are many social and physical determinants of maternal, infant, and child health, recent efforts have been focused on addressing disparities by employing a “life course” perspective to health promotion and disease prevention. MICH 10.2 is an objective that seeks to improve the population’s health and well-being by increasing the proportion of pregnant women
Firstly, it is the step of supporting individuals. This is when person-based strategies to improve the health of disadvantaged individuals. This new solution can involve social media would help increase the knowledge in the individuals of every society because social media continues to be a daily essential, especially for youngsters and children. Even though there are different socioeconomically community’s, the internet is accessible almost everywhere and is flooded with constant advertisements, if the government can promote physical activity in a distinctive way using social media more people will be informed. A study in a news article found that the people who used social networking sites to lose weight had a significant decrease in body mass index and proves that the use of social media to treat obesity encourages to be more pro-active and motivates them to contribute more to
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An example of health promotion measures used in my practice area is smoking cessation program. All patients admitted in our hospital are screened for smoking habits upon admission and are offered help. Other examples of health promotion that I can use as an APN include blood pressure screening and managing to prevent heart disease and stroke; Cancer screening; annual physical examination and recommending lifestyle changes, diet modification and
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Coca-Cola could use its social media network to introduce its products. This could be beneficial to the company, increase awareness of other products and increase revenue. Threats – The ever changing health-consciousness attitudes of the market could have a serious impact on Coca-Cola. This is a dominant threat because people are constantly trying to change their eating and drinking habits. Social media could exploit the unhealthy side of Coca-Cola’s products and could potentially threaten the status and success of sales (Tanner, 2013).
promotion programs using overall self-rated health as a common metric. Population Health Management, 13(2), 91-95. doi: 10.1089/pop.2009.0026
Marketing through Social Media (Exploratory Essay) Throughout the ages there have been many intriguing ways that businesses have portrayed their product or services for accessibility. Recently, businesses have been researching how to market the businesses product through the World Wide Web. With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, it started becoming popular within the past 20 Years. People have started to rely heavily on the internet over the past decade, whether it be for searching for information on products or people.
· Use of social media for promotion- word of mouth and social media help to get the message across and promote the product efficiently
Social media is an outlet that allows a company to introduce new products, control the speed of how they want to introduce their products and free advertisement. Sending out a tweet or putting up a status would let your customers know about a product that is released. This benefits companies because they spend less money on televised commercials, which takes more time to produce and will not reach as many generations that it could by using social media. Any social media site is free, and it takes less than 10 seconds to put out a post on any website. Facebook has also launched Facebook advertisements, which assist advertisers by showing advertisements to a user based on demographic factors, such as location, age, or gender, and which can further engage the audience by incorporating social context into advertisements, such as displaying when someone’s friend has liked an advertiser’s Facebook page (Li, Lin, & Chiu, Fall2014) . There is nearly 100 million daily active snapchatters and growing. Teenagers are constantly on their phones checking their pages so there is no way they will not know about the product being released. Marketers can discover potential customers for market positioning by filtering the content that online users mention or discuss (Li, Lin, & Chiu,