HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION 6 Running Head: Health Concerns Among the Elderly

Running Head: HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
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Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Contents
Training Programme: HPDP in older adults for Community Health Volunteers in Houston, Texas.........3
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 4
Theoretical framework of HPDP.......................................................................................... 4
Health concerns among the elderly....................................................................................... 6
HPDP strategies.............................................................................................................. 7
Impact of HPDP strategies................................................................................................. 8
Barriers of HPDP among the elderly..................................................................................... 9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 9
Bibliography.................................................................................................................. 9

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Training Programme: HPDP in older adults for Community Health Volunteers in
Houston, Texas
Wednesday, 7th March 2018
0900hrs – 0930hrs: Registration
0930hrs – 1000hrs am: Opening of training
1000hrs – 1100hrs: Introduction of health promotion and disease prevention
1100hrs – 1130hrs: Tea Break
1130hrs – 1230hrs: Disease burden among the older adults in United States
1230hrs – 1300hrs: Group discussion: Disease burden among the older adults in Houston, Texas
1300hrs – 1400hrs: Lunch break
1400hrs – 1500hrs: Health promotion and disease prevention strategies
1500hrs – 1600hrs: Group discussion: Evaluation of the strategies in place and their barriers in
Houston, Texas
1600hrs – 1630hrs: Closing of Training

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Introduction
The health sector has four pillars. These are promotion of health, prevention of disease, curative
and rehabilitation. Emerging trends have their focus on promotion of health and prevention of
disease (HPDP). Promotion of health is defined as “the process of enabling people to increase
control over, and to improve, their health” (WHO, 1998). Health promotion seeks to create
awareness and empower people to adequately take care of their health leading to increased
quality of life.
Prevention of diseases is defined as “specific, population based and individual based
interventions aimed at minimizing the burden of diseases and associated risk factors” (WHO,
2017). This is characterized by the assessment of the risk factors of diseases and making efforts
to mitigating them.
Theoretical framework of HPDP
These are founded on 6 theories. These are:
 Ecological models
 The health belief model
 Relapse prevention model
 Transtheoretical model
 Social cognitive model
 Theory of reasoned action/planned behavior (NORC Walsh center, 2012)
Health promotion is guided by the Ottawa charter of 1986 and the Jakarta Declaration of 1997.
According to the Ottawa Charter, advocacy, enabling and mediation are the strategies for health
promotion. Under these three strategies, there are action areas which include: