NRS-429VN Health Promotion Report: Family Centered Approach

This report focuses on family centered health promotion within the Hispanic/Latino community, highlighting the significant impact of cultural, socioeconomic, and sociopolitical factors on health outcomes. It explores the current health status of this population, including prevalent chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, and emphasizes the role of race and ethnicity in influencing health disparities. The report delves into the influence of cultural beliefs, language barriers, and immigration status on healthcare access and outcomes. It also examines health promotion strategies, such as the Pender's Health Promotion Model and social media interventions, along with secondary prevention measures. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for culturally competent care and addressing the unique needs of the Hispanic/Latino population to improve health equity.

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Introduction
According to the statistics of the demographical distribution of various minority
groups, The Hispanic/Latino Americans has been the second largest minority groups of the
United States (Daviglus, Pirzada & Talavera, 2014). Thus 52 million people or 16.7% of the
total population has been Hispanic Latino citizens. According to the data available regarding
the health behaviours as well as health status of the Hispanic or/Latino groups, it can be seen
that it has been complex due to variety of factors. The health inclusive of the U.S
Hispanic/Latino group is determined by generational status along with difference in various
nation origin groups. The following paragraphs would highlight the various factors affecting
the health conditions of the Hispanic and Latino people and the reason behind the heath
conditions according to social, political, economic factors (Schneiderman et al., 2014).
Current health status of the Hispanic/Latino group and the influence on race and
ethnicity
The declining condition of their health status has been depicted with the varying
mortality rates of the people. One of the most important factors affecting the health status is
chronic conditions like diabetes mellitus. As compared with other non-Hispanic whites, they
have a higher tendency of suffering from Type 2 diabetes. Hypertension, cardiovascular
diseases along with cancer has been other factors for the prevalence of chronic diseases.
There has been age related proportions among the Hispanics which have reported activity
limitations compared with 12.1 percent for the whites and 15.5 percent for the blacks
according to the calculation from the National Centre for Health Statistics (Blackwell, Lucas
& Clarke, 2014). Race and ethnicity of groups affect the genomic information of people
which is again influence by health related factors. As race involves the categorization of

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individuals on the basis of skin colour, there is heretrogenicity among the individuals which
simultaneously affects their heath and overall well-being.
Health disparities among Hispanic/Latino groups due to culture, socioeconomics, socio-
political factors and education
According to the World Health Organisation, health disparities are the differences
which are avoidable, unnecessary and considered as unfair, unjust. There has been an
increase diseases burden among the minority groups due to increasing morbidity as well as
mortality compared with other races. Primary health differences mainly attribute to variations
in social resources, socializations well as formative human experiences found over the life
courses. Moreover, all-cause mortality rates have been lower than the whole population but
have been enhanced over the years due to secular trends in social forces as well as diseases
affected by the low levels of education among the people. Fertility and immigration rates are
also the pivotal factors behind the socioeconomic conditions of the people which is lower
than other races (Lubin, 2014).
Health promotion activities for the Hispanic/Latino minority populations
According to Pender’s revised Health Promotion Model, there has been promotion of
the lifestyles as well as biophysical measures among the Hispanic adults (Heydari &
Khorashadizadeh, 2014). Among the various health promotion strategies for the Hispanic
and the Latino people are the health promoting lifestyle II which helps in measuring the
frequency of various health promoting behaviours and it helps in reflecting the extent to
which people usually actively engage in the health promotion activities. Moreover, these help
in providing the baseline data for helping inform development of health promotion activities.

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According to Beumler et al (2016), social media has been a potential accessible venue mainly
for health interventions which has been aimed mainly at the Hispanic as they have been at
risk for poor health outcomes.
Secondary level of health promotion prevention in affecting the minority
According to the various levels of health promotion strategies, the secondary levels of
health prevention aims at mainly preventing the stepwise progression of diseases concerned.
Moreover this is done through early interventions including breast cancer screening
programs. It mainly targets those individuals which usually do not show the symptoms but
often are exposed to the various risk factors which are usually distinct for particular
conditions. Thus the secondary level would be apt for the people belonging to the minority
groups as it would help in the early detection of the diseases and would thus help in the
prevention of the diseases. Hus it would help in the prompt treatment of the diseases which
would limit the impairment, disability as well as dependency of the treatment procedures and
would help in prevention of severe health problems in near future (Channel, 2014).
Cultural beliefs or practices affecting the unique needs of the Hispanic /Latino groups
Apart from health status, various cultural and social barriers include language
barriers, lack of insurance, variegated cultural beliefs as well as illegal status of immigration
along with issues involving mistrust and illiteracy. According to the National Standards for
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate services, various measures are taken which help in
raising the concerns. Moreover culturally competent care is important (Lin et al., 2014). For
treatment, healthcare professionals should be well accustomed to the cultural beliefs of
Hispanic or Latino people. Thus they should be aware of the LEARN technique which can
ultimately help in overcoming the barriers and help in ensuring the direction which can be
correctly understood. Moreover a sustainable environment keeping in mind the variety in

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cultural background should be considered for the welcoming health care environment for the
Latino patients (Kochanek et al., 2015).
Conclusion
Thus from the following paragraphs it can be understood that a huge section of the
minority populations occupying a major portion of the population of US is Hispanic or
Latino. However due to various barriers both socially and culturally they have been denied
the basic sources. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer are some of the ailments
affecting the overall health of the people which is further affected by social, economic
barriers. There have been differences in the health related resources as compared to other
races. A secondary level of health promotion program would be effective in addressing their
health issues. On consideration of such issues pertaining to the escalation of healthcare
among the minority groups of Hispanic and Torres inhabitants, the specific needs of the
people would be met.

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