1. In which setting was the health promotion/prevention program implemented? What was the rationale for the selection of the setting? JW Farquhar’s prevention program was a large experimental field study to help prevent cardiovascular disease. His setting for his study was done in California in the following five cities: Salinas and Monterey (the treated cities), Modesto, San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria (the controlled cities). According to JW Farquhar (1996), his rationale for the selection of theses settings were to do a study that would analyze the effectiveness of a community-based health education that would conduct random assignments of a large number of communities. Due to limited resources, and the wide-ranging commonality of media markets in California, the design for the five nonrandom cities was assigned. His study of these five cities faced many restrictions such as being located in northern California; the populations in the cities in his study needed to exceed 30,000 making the total population of the five cities being almost 300,000 in order to provide enough statistical data for the experiment alone; he had to find similarities in ethnicity, demographics and socioeconomic characteristics among the targeted population; the sharing of media markets between the treated cities in order to decrease the costs; there couldn’t be any newspapers or electronic media shared between both the treated and controlled cities. (Farquhar, 1996) 2. Was there a theory that guided the program or study? If so, what theory or theories were used? The theories JW Farquhar used were the social learning theory, the behavior change model, community organization principles and social marketing method. Social learning theory is our behavi... ... middle of paper ... ...would be needed to help fight this disease. This program helped promote health education in schools, the target ranged from as early as elementary to college. This program has helped educate officials and the public to implement coordinated school programs in teaching students at an early age how to smoking negatively effects the body, as well as learn better eating habits and how being physical active are some of the steps that they can take to help their prevention of obesity and from developing heart problems such as cardiovascular disease. References Farquhar, J. (1996). Effects of communitywide education on cardiovascualr disease risk factors: The Stanford Five City Project. Journal of the American Medical Association 264, 359-365. Farquhar, J. (1996). Stanford Five City Project (Cardiovascular Health, Media Advocacy). Health Education Quarterly 23, 346-364.
As opposed to the 19th century where the prevalence of preventable infectious disease was the leading cause of mortality, we face a new challenge today: decreasing the occurrence of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and strokes. Overwhelmingly so, cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer in the United States. This can be attributed to the state of poor psychological health and poor behavioral choices promoted by a variety of biological, psychological, and social influences. A healthier lifestyle is linked to a longer lifespan and better quality of life for an individual, so in order to promote a healthier lifestyle the dangers and risks of everyday life must be recognizable and approachable. Current questions I want to answer is; What is the most effective heart disease prevention, onset, and intervention methods? Looking through the biopsychosocial model scope is useful because it is a recent and practical framework to implement and operationalize.
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It also offers physical, psychological and social environment. Health Promotion is considered as a philosophy, multispectral and socio-cultural technique that purpose to promote the health and wellbeing of persons and communities through health education, supportive environments and so on. (Kozier et al., 2014, p.143). As a nurse, a first recommendation to Jessica is to select low calories and highly nutritious food. Jessica used to smoke packets of cigarettes, eat unhealthy, junk foods and drink alcohol. To prevent from illness, Jessica she has to eat healthy foods and reduce to drink alcohol in order to get healthy lifestyle. Another problem Jessica is getting stress when her boyfriend left her alone and she take care of her child alone. To get good life style, Jessica has to do physical activities such as meditation and involve in some exercise program. Meditation can reduce from getting illness. Secondly, health promotion of health is for Jessica’s sister Jenna. Jenna is not much age but she is overweight. Overweight is more likely to get disease easily. Jenna also eats junk foods and pop. Due to her overweight, she feels uncomfortable to do exercise. To prevent from diseases and get safe and healthy lifestyle Jenna has to change her unsafe habits. Jessica’s family has to involve the programs that are provided by health care services It aims to prevent disease before it occurs. This is
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Social determinants of cardiovascular diseases are found largely outside the healthcare systems, social factors of cause-and-effect work with traditional risk factors within the health care system to determine ones overall health.
Health problem can affect the individuals’ quality of life and well-being. It is imperative to identify the key indicators of health and contributing factors in the community. This will enable the community to create an appropriate interventions, and essential actions to address health problems in a population. For this particular assignment, I chose Harwood Heights, Illinois to gather data and identify the major health problems and the contributing factors that the community is suffering from. According to Presence Resurrection Medical Center (2013), the leading causes of deaths in Harwood Heights are heart disease, and diabetes. Likewise, overweight or obesity, alcohol abuse, and tobacco use are an obvious concern in the community. A finding
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... them. Health promotion for staff is for staff to have healthy lifestyles therefore children are able to pick up on it and they would be able to model the healthy choices. Lastly is family and community involvement in the school community everything works together like a puzzle that each piece needs each other and they are able to rely on one anything if something happens.
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"The increased prevalence of overweight and obesity particularly among children and adolescents is a severe public health problem" (Bray, 2005). According to our text, health education and health promotion are recognized increasingly as ways to meet public health objectives and improve the success of public health and medical interventions around the world (Gollust, 2014).
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Community health programs to educate citizens on common medical ailments and proper nutrition can reduce the larger cost of providing care to uniformed, sick people in future by empowering individuals to make health conscious decisions in their daily lives (Erwin, 2008). The education system can benefit from the construction of adequate facilities, the improvement of the teaching staff, and an increased amount of academic resources. By receiving a better educational opportunity, poor children and adolescents obtain a more equal chance to succeed in their future careers. Additionally, positive recreational programs can be adapted in schools to occupy students after school and improve their physical health. The vast improvement in the programs offered to people in disadvantaged communities can reap further benefit to
Educating the public to recognize the signs and dangers of myocardial infarctions could lead to earlier interventions and prevent life endangering delays. Furthermore, the ability to afford medical procedures is a huge barrier for many of the patients. As a result, life threatening delays often occurred because of considerations for the cost of the procedures. It became clear that meeting the health needs of the public took more than education; it would also take an interdisciplinary effort to eliminate health inequities resulting from disparities in income, social status, education, employment, social and physical work environments. However, all I had were raw ideas. It was clear to me that I would need the formalization of a public health education to obtain the skills needed to actualize my
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