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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION 1PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTIONStudent’s NameUniversity AffiliationCourseDate
HEALTH PROMOTION 2IntroductionHealth promotion refers to a process that enables individuals to increase their control over their own health. Health is a resource for daily life, not the objective of living. Health promotion is a responsibility of the health care systems. It also involves well-being and healthy lifestyles which are important in health improvement. Good health requires fundamental resources and conditions such as peace, education, shelter, food, sustainable resources, income, social equity and justice and a stable ecosystem. Health Promotion also refers to a miscellaneous approach of encouraging life-style behaviors that are related to health to both individuals and communities. HealthPromotion is often aimed at allowing people develop control over the health determinants hence improving their status of health and other factors that influence health at whole. The chosen condition for this paper is diabetes (Baum & Fisher, 2014).The Ottawa Charter was purposely endorsed to assist in development of partnerships and support organizations in creation and maintenance of actions aimed atpromoting health that fully support the wellbeing of individuals and the communities. To ensure achievement of better health for every person, cooperation and collaboration amongst all private, public, government, non-governmental, local authorities, international organizations and the media is very important. The five priority action areas of health promotion advocated by the Ottawa charter include; development of personal skills, reorientation of health services, creation of supportive and conducive environments, establishment of healthy public policies and community action strengthening. The three major strategies of health promotion highlighted in Ottawa Charter are advocate, mediate and enable (Milat et al, 2012).).The first strategy is advocacy. Nurse is often an advocate of good health for bothindividuals and communities. Good health is considered as a major resource for variousaspects of human development. Some of these aspects include economic, social, economic, personal growth and development. These factors largely influence development of diabetes among individuals and in communities. Additionally, good health is a very essential dimension of one’s quality of life. It is the role of the nurse as an advocate of good health to ensure that all economic, political, cultural, social,
HEALTH PROMOTION 3environmental, biological and behavioral factors favour good health. Health promotion actions taken by nurses are aimed at making these factors favorable by advocating for health (Egger, Spark & Donovan, 2013).The second strategy is enable. The main focus of health promotion is achievement of equity in health. It is the responsibility of the nurse to ensure that there no health inequalities among populations as far as diabetes is concerned. The actions of health promotion are meant to reduce the existing differences in current diabetes status hence ensuring equal resources and opportunities that enable all individuals to achieve their health potential in full. The nurse should secure a foundation in a supportive environment, life skills, information access, and opportunities of making right healthy decisions and choices of life (Tones, Robinson & Tilford, 2013).The third strategy of health promotion is mediate. Nurse is a mediator between the external factors such as government, media, industry, organizations and local authorities and the well-being of communities, individuals and families. Health care personnel, social and professional groups have a great responsibility in mediating the various and varying interests in society when pursuing good health (Tones et al., 2013).Ottawa Charter Action Area 1: Developing personal SkillsIn this action, the nurse has a great role in modifying individual and communitybehavior to enable them realize some of the adjustments they can make in their lives toreduce the risk of diabetes development. The nurse is responsible for educating thecommunity and individual patients on the most suitable and effective skills that areimportant in improving their health status (MacDonald, 2012).Some of the skills that the nurse educate them about include; communication,decision making, managing their own health, problem-solving and assertiveness. Thenurse encourages people hence promoting effective coping to their illnesses/ conditionssuch as diabetes. The information and skills gained should allow people to learn moreabout the available options in gaining control over their own health. The nurse shouldenlighten and encourage the people to enroll in programs that are beneficial to them. Inthese programs, they can learn about healthy eating habits and physical exercises
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