Health Promotion Programs - PDF
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Health Promotion Programs - PDF
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM Social determinants of health as well as well-being can be considered as the specificconditions within which individuals are seen to born, grow, live, work and age (Treloar, 2016).These factors help to determine the situation in which individuals live and thereby gain successin their lives emotionally, mentally, financially as well as physically (Williams et al., 2018). Theworld health organisation has successfully recognised ten important social determinants of healthas they have the ability to create inequitable differences in the health outcomes. Out of this,addiction is stated to be one of the most important determinants that are affecting the lives oflarge number of people in every nation. The most vulnerable group of people identified in thenation is the male aboriginal adults who are mostly subjected to their different types of addiction(Marel et al., 2016). These are the tobacco smoking, alcohol addiction and other substance abuse.Researchers have successfully identified that smoking is the major cause of chronic diseaseamong the aboriginal’s people leading to different types of cardiovascular disorders, cardio-pulmonary disorders, cancer and many others. Half of the aboriginal males are seen to smoketobacco throughout the year and this number is twice the number of the non-natives of Australia.Similarly, alcohol use is also considered the major contributor of different types of injury,violence as well as involvement of in the criminal justice systems (Sun & Buys, 2016). It isfound that substance abuse disorders have contributed as a significant reason for the gap that isfound in the health status between the indigenous a well as non-indigenous Australians. About47.7% of the individuals in the aboriginals were found to be daily smokers. On the other hand, itwas found that the rate of alcohol consumption was twice the rate of the non-natives (Wilson etal., 2017). This accounted for about 17% with theta of 8% in case of short term whiskey drinkingand 15% with that of 14% in case of long term whiskey drinkers. A number of risk factors hadbeen identified to be the contributors of the development of addiction habits among the students.
2HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM One of the major reasons that is stated here that the traditional culture of the native peoplepromotes the tobacco smoking and alcohol use as a part of their culture. This makes theaboriginal uptake the habit in order to feel accepted in the community and to mingle with thecommunity members and feel socially included. Evidences of aboriginals taking up the habit as amatter of experiences or due to peer pressure has also been found in the different studiesconducted in the risk factors. Poor employment prospects provides them with ample time andboredom, which makes them depressed and therefore poor financial condition and pooremployment becomes the risk factors for taking up of the habit of substance abuse (Brett et al.,2017). Stress and difficult societal pressure and economic status make them exposed to thesehabits. Lack of education and different side effects of the substance abuse disorders make themmore exposed to developing habits. A number of different types of protective factors can bestated which may help in overcoming of the development of habits in the males in the aboriginalcommunity (Cheah et al., 2017). Effective self-control and parental monitoring from young agecan help the natives to grow in ways by which they do not develop addiction habits. Besides,proper academic competence and different anti-drug policies can help in prevention of theaddiction habits. Strong neighbourhood attachment and health literacy would also help inprevention of the disorders.Smart Goal:The health promotion program that would be developed will mainly be based the healthbelief model as that would help in modifications of behaviours by which they can overcome theaddiction habits. This health belief model will mainly focus on two important goals that need tobe developed.
3HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM Goal: to develop the health literacy of the aboriginals in order to make them understand theeffects that substance abuse is conducting of their physical and mental health. Employmentopportunities would be promoted through making them learn different handicraft services,making them know ways of farming, setting of small business and many others (Mooney &Sarriago, 2015).Specific: health promotion campaigns will be developed where volunteers will visit aboriginalcommunities and verbally make them understand the side effects with the use of colourfuldemonstrations and help them to understand how they can overcome the disorders. Theemployment opportunities’ will help them to overcome boredom and gain financial security andhence such habits would be changed.Measurable: the goal is measurable because after every week, an interactive session will bearranged with the community participants so that the volunteers can understand own much theaboriginals had been able to understand the health literacy sessions conducted for them. Thiswould help to understand whether the aboriginals are developing knowledge or not (Moonro etal., 2017). They should be interviewed about the ways taught to them to employ themselves andgain back their feedbacks. His would help to measure whether they are aligning with the programAttainable: this goal is easily attainable as the volunteer would be conducting sessions and theaboriginal male adults would be attending the sessions. In order to make themselves aware of thehealth literacy campaign, invitation pamphlets be circulated in the community. This is easilyattainable as the pamphlets would help them to be aware of the discussion sessions and thiswould make them participate in the program. Employment opportunities will cut their boredomand make them financially stress free. This would help them to stay away from addiction.
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