Importance of Health Promotion

RUNNING HEAD: IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH PROMOTION 1
Importance of Health promotion
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IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH PROMOTION 2
Importance of Health Promotion to patients
Health promotion is important to patients because it provides the avenue for nurses to
share information and develop community programs. The role of the nurses is not only to offer
direct patient care but to prevent diseases as well (Hicking-Woodison, 2017). Effective disease
control lies in the ability to share information on diseases and how patients can protect
themselves against infection. This act of sharing information to the patients is what is known as
health promotion .There are different ways in which this can be achieved and they include
community education sessions and one on one counselling sessions with patients.
Health promotion is important to patients since it reduces the cost of medical treatment.
As previously explained, health promotion provides information to the patients on how well they
can protect themselves from different diseases. A good example is cholera can be prevented
through proper hygiene while HIV/AIDS can be protected through the use of condoms (Marcus-
Varwijk et al., 2016). This act of educating the patients to protect themselves will render them
free of certain diseases and they will not incur any expenses seeking treatment. This therefore
reduces the cost of treatment that could otherwise be used in other income generating activities.
Health promotion is important as it generally improves the health status of patients.
Health promotion can be used as a tool to educate different patients,their families, communities
as well as states and the general state at large by sharing information on how they can lead a
healthy lifestyle .The healthy lifestyle includes regular exercise, eating a balanced diet and
reducing consumption of alcohol and some drugs (Perry, Nicholls, Duffield, & Gallagher, 2017).
Once the individuals get this information and put it to practice, the prevalence of certain chronic
conditions like diabetes and hypertension would reduce and this improves their health status.