NUR212: Context of Practice - Asthma Health Promotion Expo Plan

This report presents a comprehensive health promotion expo plan designed to address asthma in primary school children. The plan begins by identifying asthma as a critical health priority, detailing its impact on children and referencing relevant statistics. The target audience includes primary school children, their parents, guardians, teachers, and school staff. The plan emphasizes the significance of the health issue, highlighting the increasing prevalence of childhood asthma and its adverse effects on education and overall well-being. The core health promotion activity involves promoting mild physical exercises, breathing techniques, and educational sessions for teachers, parents, and guardians. Key policies informing the activity include allowing inhalers, incorporating warm-up and cool-down periods in physical activities, and providing emergency medications. The expo utilizes various health promotion principles, including intersectoral collaboration, community action, and empowerment. The implementation requires visual aids, videos, and consent from the schools. Effective collaboration among group members is also vital to achieve the plan's objectives. The report references several studies and resources to support its findings and recommendations.

NUR 212 Context of practice: Caring for child, youth and family
Task 2 - Health promotion expo plan (Approximately1000 words)
Use this template to document your health promotion expo plan. The idea of the expo plan
is to provide a brief overview of the health issue, the target audience, why this is an
important issue to the target audience and the expo activity. Submit your plan as one
document per group to the tutor prior to the presentation of your expo in week 9.
Health promotion expo title: Asthma in Primary School Children
Group members
Design:
1)What key health priority is being addressed by this expo?
Children suffer from various kinds of diseases which affects their growth as well as study
also. In this key health priority expo asthma among the primary school children is being
addressed. Asthma is a common cause of several types of illness. Review of some medical
literature also reveals that asthma attack among the children is increasing at an alarming
rate and sometimes the reason is polluted environment and sometimes it happens due to
genetic order (Cabana et al. 2014). It can have many adverse effects on the education of the
children. The attack can come anytime and when the children are there in their schools, it
can be problematic for them to deal with. Due to asthma attack, children need to spend
sleepless night which can create several other health hazards as a consequence. This expo
will assess how asthma affects the life of children and what are the health promotion
activities that can be helpful in order to address the issue.
2)Who is the target audience?
The main and primary target audience for this expo is the primary school children among
which most of them is infants and just started going school. Apart from that, their parents,
guardians and school teachers and other staffs present in the school will also be considered
as secondary target audience for this expo (Chang et al. 2015).
3)Why is the health issue significant to this target audience?(some statistics on the health
issue in that age group e.g. tooth decay rates in under 5s, amount of time spent playing
“screen based games” in teens, amount of activity in 5-10 age group)

Asthma is a dangerous disease as it causes swelling of the airways and in this inflammatory
disorder, the condition leads to wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, and breathlessness
particularly at night or in the early morning. However, among the children under the age of
five years, the clinical symptoms of asthma vary and they are nonspecific also. The health
issue is significant among the children as in this age group a child grows physically as well as
mentally. The disease affects their health and their educational growth also. In a survey it
has been found that, almost 60 % of school-aged asthmatic children have allergies (CDC.gov
2018). During the 20th century, the prevalence of childhood asthma increased among the
Europeans. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), asthma is
more common in children than elders and it is a leading chronic disease (CDC.gov 2018).
Asthma has been considered as one of the reasons of missing schools among children and
study in the year 2013 revealed that about 13.8 million children miss their school days due
to asthma. In the year 2015, they reported at least 1 in 12 children have asthma ( United
States Environmental Protection Agency 2016). Again, in the year 2016, CDC reported that
50% of children under the age group of 5 had an episode with asthma in their life (CDC.gov
2018).
4)What is the planned health promotion activity?
Asthma is a serious chronic disease and its growth among the school children has been
increased in the past few decades. It affects the health of the children and they also lack
behind from the children with no asthma in all aspects. Various health promotional activities
are there in order to address the issue regarding asthma among the primary school children.
The planned health promotion activity is, promoting some mild physical exercise as well as
activities and breathing exercise techniques among the primary school children suffering
from asthma (Zahran et al. 2016). Physical exercises are part of the school and children with
asthma should be allowed to do some mild exercises along with breathing exercise
techniques in school. In this health promotion activity a team of health experts will visit
schools and there will be meeting session and conference with teachers, staffs and
guardians of the children with asthma. They will be informed about the effectiveness of
breathing exercise and mild physical activity to keep the child with asthma more active and
fit which will help them not to miss the school days. Children should be learned the proper
way of breathing exercise and their guardian should also play an important role to treat
their children at home (Giallo et al. 2015).
5)What key policies are informing the activity?
The health promotional activity for the primary school children with asthma will inform
various key policies to be acquired by the guardians, teachers and other staffs. The activity
will inform the teachers and other staffs of the school to allow inhalers and while doing the
physical activities include warm up and cool down periods for the children with asthma
(Gibbs 2015). Cool down periods are incorporated so that, after doing any activity the
children can have some rest in order to get relief. The time and the length of the physical
activities for the children with asthma must be reviewed according to the health status of
the children. All the children must be allowed to involve in the group activity with other
children but a major modification particularly in their physical activity is required. Staffs will

be informed to take extra care for the children who have recovered from a recent asthma
attack. Schools will be informed to keep emergency medication and inhaler for the children
and the guardians will also be educated with the techniques of breathing exercises for the
children. The activity will also produce a video showing the breathing exercise techniques to
help the parents to learn them properly so that they can help their children in doing that.
6)Which health promotion principles are being used in this expo?
Health promotion is a process of enabling control over any particular disease. In this expo,
various health promotion principles are being used. Health promotion involves a wide range
of population and healthcare experts play a vital role in this purpose. This requires a strong
cooperation among the people associated with it. The planned health promotional activity
for asthma among the primary school children will be organized in the primary schools to
inform the guardians as well as the teachers and other staffs about the requirement of the
activities among the children with asthma. Here the health promotion plan will work in
partnership with school staffs, teachers and guardians so the intersectoral health promotion
principle is used and it will also strengthen the whole community action (Zahran et al. 2016).
Apart from that, it will also develop the personal skill regarding the effectiveness of
breathing exercise and other mild physical activities for asthma. The school teachers and
other staffs will be involved in the program and it will help to create a supportive
environment for the children with asthma in the school. It will also promote empowerment
which is basically a way of enabling people to gain control over the particular disease among
the primary school children (Lundbäck et al. 2016).
7)What equipment and resources are required to deliver/implement this health
promotion activity?
In order to implement the planned health promotion activity for primary school children
with asthma some visual charts to show mild physical exercises and activities and videos
showing the breathing exercise techniques are required. Consent letter from school to
organize the session is also required.
8)Collaboration Assessed via group blackboard contributions week 5-9(5 marks out of 40)
In order to get the success in the health promotional activity designed for the primary
school children suffering from asthma, collaboration among group members is highly
necessary. Effective collaboration of the group memebers will help to achieve the goal
easily.

9) References used(please list here, Harvard Style –5 marks out of 40)
Cabana, M.D., Slish, K.K., Evans, D., Mellins, R.B., Brown, R.W., Lin, X., Kaciroti, N. and Clark,
N.M., 2014. Impact of physician asthma care education on patient outcomes. Health
Education & Behavior, 41(5), pp.509-517. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2005-1055.
[Accessed 16 Sep. 2018].
CDC.gov. (2018). Asthma | Healthy Schools | CDC. [online] Available
at: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/asthma [Accessed 16 Sep. 2018].
CDC.gov. (2018). CDC - Asthma - Data and Surveillance - Asthma Surveillance Data. [online]
Available at:http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthmadata.htm [Accessed 15 Sep. 2018].
Chang, A.B., Bell, S.C., Torzillo, P.J., King, P.T., Maguire, G.P., Byrnes, C.A., Holland, A.E.,
O’Mara, P. and Grimwood, K., 2015. Chronic suppurative lung disease and bronchiectasis in
children and adults in Australia and New Zealand. Medical Journal of Australia, 202(1),
pp.21-23. Available at: https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/cha00287.pdf
[Accessed 15 Sep. 2018].
Giallo, R., Bahreinian, S., Brown, S., Cooklin, A., Kingston, D. and Kozyrskyj, A., 2015.
Maternal depressive symptoms across early childhood and asthma in school children:
findings from a Longitudinal Australian Population Based Study. PLoS One, 10(3),
p.e0121459. Available at:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121459 [Accessed
15 Sep. 2018].
Gibbs, J.E., 2015. Eucalyptus pollen allergy and asthma in children: a cross-sectional study in
South-East Queensland, Australia. PloS one, 10(5), p.e0126506. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126506. [Accessed 16 Sep. 2018].
Lundbäck, B., Backman, H., Lötvall, J. and Rönmark, E., 2016. Is asthma prevalence still
increasing?. Expert review of respiratory medicine, 10(1), pp.39-51. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1586/17476348.2016.1114417. [Accessed 15 Sep. 2018]
United States Environmental Protection Agency. Asthma Facts. May
2016 https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-05/documents/
asthma_fact_sheet_english_05_2016.pdf [Accessed 16 Sep. 2018].
Zahran, H., Bailey, C., Damon, S., Garbe, P. and Breysse, P. (2018). Vital Signs: Asthma in
Children — United States, 2001–2016. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6705e1.
[Accessed 16 Sep. 2018].

Please see Blackboard Task 2 for further details