"Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans" ("Healthy People 2020", 2015, p. 2). It monitors and evaluates whether the goals of improving health indicators are met or getting worse. Community health problems should be analyzed in order to comprehend and effectively resolve the problem ("Analyzing Community Problems", 2015). Levels of prevention are phases wherein healthcare professionals can intervene in the health of individuals and communities. Primary prevention involves seeking ways to prevent a person from having a disease they can be prone to.
Application of Population Health Promotion Model to Reduce the Impact of Healthy Immigrant effect amongst the Visible Minority Immigrant Women Population Living in Ontario The immigrant population makes up 20.6% of the total Canadian population and this number is predicted to increase to 25% and 28% by 2031 (Statistics Canada, 2013). As noted in the statistical report by Chui (2011), every one in five women in Canada, is born outside of Canada, and 73% of this population is from the visible minority. When these immigrants arrive Canada, their health status is higher than their Canadian born counterparts, but this declines to meet that of their Canadian counterpart within 5 - 20 years upon arrival This is called the Healthy immigrant effect
This essay will breakdown the different components of this health campaign through the theory behind its message,
correlation between schools staring later and improvements in academics and student health. According to Julie Boerger, Ph.d. in the article, “Benefits of later school start times” “ Studies have shown that starting school later not only helps students get more sleep, but also confers a number of important associated benefits related to health (lower rates of depressive symptoms), safety (lower rates of car crashes), academic performances (lower drop out rates, fewer absences and tardiness, improving in standardized reading and math scores), and quality of life (improved sports performance) (6).” This is one contribution that our society can act on to help reduce issues that are related to sleep deprivation in children.
Similar points may be raised against health prevention mainly in the form of primary
The Health Belief Model (HBM) will be used as a base to design nutrition education program for older adults to increase their knowledge and consumption of fluid. The Health Belief Model was developed in the 1950s. It is one of the first and well known theories that used to understand health behavior. The main idea of the HBM is people’s beliefs affect their behaviors (Contento, 2016). It is recommended to use the HBM in nutrition education because it increases the effectiveness of educational programs (Naghashpour et al., 2014).
When dealing with a specific method, there always has to be a clear theory that goes along with it. The Health Belief Model is the most used theory for health education and health promotion (Hayden, 2014). Hence is why we chose this theory to based off our program on. The concept focused mostly on the theory that health behavior is determined by personal beliefs or perceptions of a certain disease. Currently, there are seven constructs that are used in this model: Perceived Susceptibility, Perceived Severity, Perceived Benefits, Perceived Barriers, Cues to Action, Self Efficacy and Time Frame.
In short, the biological model of health is mainly defined from the absence of disease, from the model that is well-matched with positive meanings in relation to balance of normal functioning. The social model health is actually a positive state of well-being and wholeness linked with however this is not mainly explained from the non-existence of disease, physical, mental impairment and illness (Gross, 2010). Overall the concepts of ill health and health are not balanced. Non-existences of disease might be part of health, however health is considered more than the “absence of disease”.
I strongly value my health and believe that health is our greatest form of wealth. When one lives a healthy lifestyle, it means more opportunities to explore the world, build families, achieving anything the heart desires and conquering personal goals. The behavior change philosophy fits my personal philosophy of health education the most because it involves goal setting, behavioral contracts and self-monitoring to help foster the modification of an unhealthy habit. The behavior change philosophy is very important because change is a process, not an event. Self-efficacy and motivation are key factors in successful behavior changes.
The core assumptions of the Health Belief Model (HBM) are based on the premise that a person will develop a health behavior and is willing to take action to avoid the occurrence of the disease. Furthermore, the person needs to believe that they have the possibility of developing the disease, that they can avoid the disease, that the cost of the change outweighs the benefit and that the person can effectively implement the recommended behavior. Furthermore, the major concepts of the HBM are perceived severity, perceived benefit, perceived barriers, cues to action and self-efficacy (de Chesnay and Anderson, 2016, p. 155-156). According to the Common Sense Model (CSM), when a health threat is perceived by the individual, they progress through three stages: (1) mental representations of the health threat; (2) coping actions or behaviors that help the individual cope with the health threat; and (3) how well the coping strategies manage the
I chose to use the Health Belief Model, borrowed from the behavioral sciences, which explain the health behavior of the individuals. According to Rosenstock (1988), Health Belief Model contains six constructs: 1) perceived susceptibility, 2) perceived severity, 3) perceived benefits, 4) perceived barriers, 5) cues to action, and 6) self-efficacy. Rosenstock, Strecher, and Becker (1994) describe perceived susceptibility as whether or not a person regards themselves as being susceptible to an illness or being harmed due to becoming or not becoming involved in a behavior. Perceived susceptibility motivates individuals to be vaccinated for flu and to use sunscreen to prevent skin cancer. Perceived severity is the personal belief of an individual about the
In addition, the next psychological factors, beliefs. From doing and learning, people will also obtain beliefs and attitudes. Belief is a descriptive thought that a person has about something such as iPhone. For example, if we saw many people use Apple brand things such as iPhone, they will give their own opinion about iPhone. If the opinion is good, we will believe and also use iPhone.
Knowing about personal health risks, making changes to lessen them, and sticking with these changes are important for maintaining optimal health. In the end, each individual is responsible for their own actions, and becoming educated about their risks will help them to make better choices. The audience for this persuasive essay will include both employers and employees. The first challenge in reaching this audience could be potential privacy concerns. Employers should not have access to health records of their employees that is not work related, and some may worry that their medical information will be shared.
The HBM was developed to explain and predict health-related behaviors, and is one of the most commonly applied models in health behavior research and practice. It suggests that engagement (or lack of engagement) in health-promoting behavior can be predicted by people's perceived susceptibility (i.e., beliefs about their risk of contracting a health condition), perceived threat (feelings concerning the seriousness of contracting an illness or leaving it untreated), perceived benefits of taking health action and barriers to action, perceived self-efficacy (i.e., beliefs about their ability to perform the action), and cues/triggers to
In this respect, according to theory, disease representations are analyzed in terms of five basic dimensions: identity (perceived signs and symptoms, illness-related personal and familial experience); causality (beliefs about the cause / causes of the disease: genetic factors, stress, fate); timeline (beliefs about the evolution and the duration of the acute or chronic disease); consequences (psychosocial implications of the disease on the quality of personal and family life); and disease control (prevention, treatment). Different responses to the same disease or health risk are explained, in terms of theory, by different representations of the disease and by individuals’
