Nursing 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Smoking Cessation, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Primary Healthcare
17 Dec 2016
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Health Promotion and Caring: Client education
Health promotion
- Health promotion refers to efforts aimed at increasing peoples control over things
that affect their health (Primary healthcare PHC principle)
- Health is achieved through building personal capacity: developing personal skills
(Ottawa Charter, 1986)
- Health promotion involves (KNOW IT)
o Health protection
o Preventive health services
o Health education programs
Stuff that may affect one’s health may not affect the other.
What is health education?
Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide
individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire the information and the
skills needed to make quality health actions.
Smoking cessation is a downstream approach.
What is our role?
Nurses recognize client’s need for knowledge and a readiness to learn new information
and behaviors (i.e., assessment)
Do they want to change, how do they understand the correlation between lifestyles and
health. You have to try to understand how people think about the situation. Recognizing
their knowledge level and their readiness to learn.
Nurses develop and provide health promotion programs for families and communities
(i.e., planning, implementation, evaluation)
Key Characteristics of health education
- Involves the use of teaching/learning strategies
- Learners maintain voluntary control over the decision to make changes in their
actions
- Behavior changes have been found to improve health outcomes
Why health education?
- Enhances individual’s abilities to make positive lifestyle changes
- Supports social and political actions to promote health and quality of life in
communities
- Facilitates voluntary action to promote health
- Encourages positive informed changes in lifestyle behavior
- Empowers people
- Prevents disease and disability
- Improves health status
What challenges may clients face?
- Distance from healthcare facilities (promote access and equity)
- Clean water
- New babies (early discharges from hospitals, which leads to the boomerang
effect, where they come back to the hospital)
- Complicated treatment plans
- Making informed decisions
- Maintaining healthy lifestyle
- Communicating their perspective, needs, values
- Living with difficult socio-economic conditions
- Managing chronic conditions
- Accessing community resources
- Interacting with many healthcare professionals
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Document Summary
Health promotion refers to efforts aimed at increasing peoples control over things that affect their health (primary healthcare phc principle) Health is achieved through building personal capacity: developing personal skills (ottawa charter, 1986) Health promotion involves (know it: health protection, preventive health services, health education programs. Stuff that may affect one"s health may not affect the other. Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire the information and the skills needed to make quality health actions. Nurses recognize client"s need for knowledge and a readiness to learn new information and behaviors (i. e. , assessment) Do they want to change, how do they understand the correlation between lifestyles and health. You have to try to understand how people think about the situation. Recognizing their knowledge level and their readiness to learn. Nurses develop and provide health promotion programs for families and communities (i. e. , planning, implementation, evaluation)
