Public Health Promotion Project Plan

This report focuses on a public health promotion project plan for managing the health of non-indigenous adult males aged 40 and above with COPD. It discusses the target group, goals, and strategies for enhancing health outcomes.

Health Promotion Title:
Public Health Promotion Project Plan

Introduction
Health promotion programs aim to engage and empower individuals and
communities to choose healthy behaviours, and make changes that reduce the risk
of developing chronic diseases and other morbidities. Healthy behaviour will assist in
enhancing health outcome of an individual. Present report will lay emphasis on
description of specific target group and community. It will also focus on how this
public health promotion will be beneficial for target group. Assignment will also
provide goals/ aims for the health promotion are and what the health promotion
project is aiming to achieve. It will also identify public health promotion management
strategies.
Health Promotion and Target Group Outline-
The target group which has been selected for the present case scenario is health
management of non indigenous adult male of 40 years and above who have been
diagnosed with COPD. The prevalence rate of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease is really high in adults aged above 40. This disease is laying severe impact
on health outcome of an individual which has hampered the quality of life of patients.
According to National Health survey (2017-2018) in Australians aged 45 and over
was 4.8%, an estimated 464,000 people (Briggs, (2018). It has been analysed that
COPD affects about 1 in 20 Australians aged above 40 years. It has also been
analysed that individuals who are been involved in smoking cigars are at six percent
more risk of getting infected by this disease. This disease is 5th most common cause
of death in Australia. COPD is highly affecting male adults above the age of 40 and
also reducing their quality of life. The main signs and symptoms of COPD is basically
chronic cough. It has been estimated that about 1.5 million people living in Australia
has been suffered with this disease. It is also known as emphysema. Health
management related to this disease of target group will help in improvising health
outcome of males who have been suffering from it.
Public health promotion and health management related to non-indigenous
males of 40 years and above age will be beneficial for them. This will be useful for
improvising the health outcome and well-being of individuals who are been suffering
from it. Public health programs and policies have been implemented which focuses
on prevention on the use of tobacco, reducing exposure to occupational hazards so
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that dust and chemicals can be prevented. This health promotion and management
strategies will assist in enhancing the health outcome of adult male suffering from
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It has been analysed and evaluated from the
research is that COPD affects 1 in 20 Australian males over the age of 40. It has
also been analysed that the smokers are more at risk of developing the disease
(Karasu & Aylaz, (2020).
They can suffer from problem such as shortness of breath, coughing. Individual
male who are been suffering from COPD can also go through problem of frequent
respiratory infections. Male can also suffer from fatigue and they can also be unable
to perform the day to day tasks. They can also face lack of energy and unintended
weight loss. Health management and promotional strategies can assist in enhancing
health outcome of non –indigenous male suffering from COPD. It has also been
analysed that education must be provided to males about the early signs and
symptoms related to disease. This will help in reducing the risk related to COPD
which can be faced by male above the age of 40. It has also been analysed that if
asthma is been treated at early stage than COPD can be prevented.
Health Promotion Aims
The main aim and objective of the health promotion and health management
strategies is enhance health and well being of males over the age of 40 who has
been suffering from COPD. It has also been analysed that scientists has also
designed COPD-SMART which can be used as the effective self management
intervention. The main goal and objective of health promotion strategies like this is to
enhance the functioning of patients by laying special focus on self management
strategies related to COPD (Clark & Lee, (2019). The health promotion strategies are
also implemented to make sure that they are also laying focus on enhancing and
changing the life style pattern by engaging male adults suffering from COPD in
physical activity. This will assist in enhancing the health outcome of male patient who
has been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The health
promotion activities also include providing education to patients in order to enhance
their quality of life. It has also been analysed that programs and policies. Health
promotion goals, includes the following:
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 To provide education related to early signs and symptoms of COPD in 70% of
the non indigenous males suffering from COPD.
 To enhance health outcome of adult make suffering from COPD by raising
awareness among them till the end of year.
Increase effective collaboration among stakeholders with COPD-related
interests; and they are also making sure that regular stake tobacco activities are
been implemented all over state so that health outcome of male above the age of 40
can be improved. Various initiatives have been taken such as assisting workplace
programs and policies so that risk related to COPD can be reduced. They are also
increasing awareness related to early signs and symptoms of the disease. This will
assist the state in enhancing and managing the risk factors related to chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease. They also make sure that males are been motivated
to been engaged in physical activity and engaged in smoking process. This will help
in reducing risk related to COPD.
Health Promotion Prevention Management perspective (Primary, Secondary or
Tertiary)
The health promotion is mainly targeting the adult men above the age of 40 by
engaging in health management activities in order to reduce the risk related to
COPD. It will focus on providing guidance related to managing the early signs and
symptoms of the disease. It will also provide education related to maintain and
changing the life style pattern so that risk related to chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease will be reduced. They will also be involved in motivating the patients to be
engaged in changing their physical activities and life style pattern so that health
outcome of non-indigenous male can be enhanced.
This is the primary prevention (Lundell et.al., (2017).. In the secondary prevention
the students will be asked to fill out the questionnaire on the methods they have
used to manage health outcome of males suffering from COPD. This questionnaire
will assist them in analysing and interpreting the data. In the secondary prevention
screening and early detection of disease will also be done. The tertiary prevention
will also include COPD-SMART which can be used as the effective self management
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intervention. The main purpose of health promotion strategies like this is to enhance
the functioning of patients by laying special focus on self management strategies
related to COPD.
Stakeholders And Community Consultation
There are various stakeholders which are been involved in this health promotion
process of managing health of adult men over the age of 40 suffering from COPD. It
has also be analysed that needs and demands of stakeholders must also be
considered while implementing the health promotion process. It includes the
following:
• Department of Health
• Registered nurses and also health care professional who can treat COPD
• Hospital administration staff
• Consent of the participants who will fill questionnaire
• Community members
• Media
All these will help in making male aware about the early signs and symptoms of
COPD. They will also be engaged in providing education to all males and will
motivate them to change their life style pattern (Steindal et.al., (2017). This will be
useful in promoting health aspect of patients. Community members will be motivated
to provided feedback on the gaps in services which has been provided by them. It
has also been analysed that The national environmental health strategy describes
the basic responsibilities at individual, community and governance level to preserve
so that the health outcome of male suffering from the COPD.
Health Logo
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COPD LOGO
(source: COPD, 2107)
<https://www.copd.com/>
This Logo will help the male over the age of 40 to know about the various risk
factors, signs and symptoms of COPD. This will help health care professionals in
enhancing the health outcome of non-indigenous male who are been suffering from
COPD. There health and well being will also be improved. This logo will enhance
Health promotion activity
The health promotion activity can be used in order to make patients aware about
the signs and symptoms related to the COPD. Students can make male over the age
of 40 aware about the world chronic obstructive pulmonary disease day which is
been celebrated on 3 Wednesday of November. Various newsletters, health Logo,
information on social media can also be promoted. This will assist students in
making patients aware about the early signs and symptoms and risk factor related to
disease. Online education can also be provided on the disease so that individual
suffering from it can be ne aware about the risk related to COPD.
This will assist in enhancing the quality of Non-indigenous Australians males.
Students can also be engaged in asking questions to patients about their dietary
patterns and type of medicines which they are been involved in taking. This will
assist them in knowing the exact knowledge of patients. They will also provide
suggestions related to dietary patterns so that future health outcome of patient can
be enhanced. They will also make patients aware about signs and symptoms
Health Promotion Activity Description-
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The health promotion activities which has been used by the students can be
evaluated by monitoring the knowledge of patients suffering from COPD (Fujita
ET.AL., (2020). Students must be engaged in asking questions to male who have
been facing this disease. This will assist them in evaluating the effectiveness of
health promotion activities which has been undertaken. This will also help them in
knowing about if prevalence rate of COPD is been lowered down or not. It will also
help them in knowing about if health outcome of patient has been enhanced or not.
They will also be engaged in checking upon whether the health outcome of patient
has been improved or not because of the health promotion activities. Evaluating
health outcome of service user is really necessary in order to know about the
success of promotional activities.
Conclusion
From the above study, it has been summarized that 1 out of 20 Australians are been
suffering from the problem of COPD. They can suffer from problem such as
shortness of breath, coughing. Individual male who are been suffering from COPD
can also go through problem of frequent respiratory infections. This has reduced the
health outcome of male over the age of 40. It has also been analysed that various
health management strategies have been used in order to enhance the health
outcome of patients. It has also been analysed that education is been provided in
order to detect early signs and symptoms of disease. It has also been analysed that
in health promotion activities education will also be provided on the risk factors so
that the health outcome of patient can be enhanced. It has also been analysed that
they have also been engaged in making health logo as promotional activity to make
patients aware about the COPD disease. This has assisted in enhancing the well
being and health outcome of service users. They have also made use of tertiary,
secondary and primary preventions. This has assisted them in enhancing health
outcome. It has also helped in improvising the quality of life of patients suffering from
COPD.
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