Self-Management for Common Chronic Disease

Running Head: SELF-MANAGEMENT FOR COMMON CHRONIC DISEASE
Self-Management for Common Chronic Disease
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Introduction
Community health is referred as the field of study related to medical and clinical
health that focuses on the protection, maintenance, and enhancement of health status ofa
population communities and group. Community health introduces different program in
society in order to improve the health status of a demographic population (Murdaugh,
Parsons & Pender, 2018). Kentucky Department of Public Health is responsible for
introducing and operating different health study programs for the residents of Kentucky. The
program initiated by the department improves public health and prevents the negative impact
various external factors in to health. Kentucky Department of Health is located in Frankfort
in USA. It has different programs initiated for diabetes, tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer,
oral health complication and cancer. It has also initiated health awareness programs related to
smoking and drinking (Ky.gov, 2019).
Needs assessment
Kentucky Department of Health has initiated different awareness programs but has no
specific programs for chronic disease. According to CDC (2019), chronic disease is referred
as the condition that will last up to 1 year or more than that, based on the treatment or
attention provided. There is no vaccine available for chronic disease. It can be only prevented
by the self-management of the disease. Around 6 out of 10 Americans are suffering from
chronic illness (CDC, 2019). Absence of such program by the health department, increases
the rate of people affected by chronic illness and need to be addressed. Hence due to the
increasing demographic population affected by chronic illness, a self-management program is
required to create awareness which will provide strategic measure to prevent such illness.
There are people who are residing in the rural areas or belongs to low economic class;
poverty rate of USA is 12.3 %. Hence, such populations, does not access to the health care
and also cannot afford the expensive treatment used for chronic illness (Douthit et al., 2015).

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The organization has developed such programs to meet the need of demographic population
in order to minimize the affected rate and also to ensure that the mortality rate among the
people under the poverty rate should reduce.
As the program will help in the creating awareness regarding the chronic illness by
providing strategic measure to manage or prevent the chronic illness and hence named as
self-management for common chronic disease. The program will help in creating
attentiveness among the residents of Kentucky to adapt different changes in their life style to
decrease the risk of chronic disease. Managing the risk factor associated with the disease,
adapting strategies in enhancing the lifestyle and adaptability to the change are the main
objectives of the program. Along with that, awareness regarding the treatment is also created
for patient who are already suffering from chronic illness.
The program is mainly available for the population who are at the high risk of having
chronic illness. It is available for different cultural groups of the Kentucky with no disparities
and should be modified accordingly. For the self management of chronic disease, it is require
having low calorie or low cholesterol diet, but some population rely on such food and does
not intends to leave it, hence in such cases’ alternatives are created. For example, for the
prevention of chronic illness meat and egg is beneficial, hence in such cases it should be
replaced with soybean in case of vegetarian people (Stanton, Scott & Happell, 2016). In the
program the strategies are recommended to prevent chronic illness such as, change in life
style by implementation of exercise and healthy diet in the daily regime (Grady & Gough,
2014). Along with that, medication is also consumed as prescribed by the doctor to minimize
the risk effect of chronic illness.
The 4 key ethical principles are beneficence, autonomy, non-malficience and justice.
To implement a health program, these entire principles rate kept in consideration. Autonomy