Health Promotion

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Health Promotion
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Introduction
Health promotion is an essential factor in an individual’s health. It is used to improve and
increase control over the health of the individual. When an individual health is at good condition
this means that it has reached the state of complete physical and mental wellbeing. Without good
health, it is evident that the resources and needs of everyday life cannot be meet. This means
being healthy is a positive concept and every individual should realize how to take good care of
health. Health sectors should encourage health promotion in all means so that every individual
can achieve good health. In this context of the discussion, the disease being focused is diabetes
mellitus and the role of midwives will be discussed in them applying the five strategies applied
in the Ottawa charter of health promotion. The five main strategies include; build public health
policy, create a supportive environment, strengthen community action, develop personal skills
and offer re-orient services (Thompson, Watson, and Tilford, 2018).
The first strategy is building a public health policy. This strategy implies that health
policies are set up in the health sectors which imply that their health consequences when nurses
don’t play their responsibilities in the health sector. The policy ensures that there is legislation,
taxation, and change in the organizational plans. Moreover, these policies also focus on
promoting the health of the diabetes mellitus individuals by providing funds which will provide
their treatment. Due to this, there has been equity in Australian health care because the condition
is easily treated (Lewis, 2015). Moreover, due to the build of policy, medication for the diabetes
mellitus patients are easily offered in the health sector and hence deaths experienced due to this
condition has reduced. This strategy ensures that even the nurses are working in good conditions
so that they could be motivated to treat people with the disease. It also promotes adoption of the

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policy in the nation –health sectors so that for the individuals who cannot access the health care
can get better treatment from this area (American Diabetes Association, 2018).
The public health policy enables the nurses to know their responsibilities so that they
cannot go in contrary to them. The policies enable the nurses to promote the health of diabetes
mellitus patients by having frequent contact with the patients. These imply that it is their role to
take care of the patients. By doing so the health of these individuals will be improved because
responsive care is being offered to them. The policy requires nurses to apply their knowledge and
skills so that they can treat patients with diabetes mellitus well. Diabetes mellitus is a disease that
requires responsive care and hence the policy enables the nurses to improve their care on these
patients (Fry and Zask, 2016).
The second strategy is creating a supportive environment. This strategy considers the
social ecology approach which is based on health promotion. Moreover, the nurses play a role of
ensuring that the environment which the diabetes mellitus individuals are living are well
conserved (World Health Organization, 2016). This means that it is their duty to ensure that the
health sectors are safe, satisfying and enjoyable. In these, the patients with diabetes mellitus
systematic assessment is supposed to be carried out so that the services they are receiving are
safe and hence they are provided on a healthy environment. This means that the nurses play a
role to build a safe environment by conserving the resources so that to achieve the health
promotion strategy (Cislaghi, 2019).
In Australia, nurses have played their role in health promotion of diabetes mellitus
individuals by creating a supportive environment. They promote a supportive environment by
creating a positive relationship with the individuals with diabetes mellitus, moreover, they take
time to educate these people on what they can do to treat the disease by offering the treatment