Family Health Report: Promoting Wellness and Health Strategies

This report focuses on family health, emphasizing its significance in promoting individual and community well-being. It discusses the concept of family health as a cornerstone for ensuring medication adherence, providing emotional support, and creating a supportive environment. The report highlights the importance of health promotion strategies, including fostering supportive environments, developing individual skills, and reinforcing community actions. The role of nurses in assessing patient needs, identifying potential problems, and developing care plans in collaboration with patients and their families is also emphasized. The report references key literature and provides insights into practical applications of family health principles. The content provides a comprehensive overview of family health and its crucial role in healthcare, focusing on strategies and implementation.

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Family health can be described as a condition that involves the promotion and maintenance of
spiritual, social, mental, and physical health of each family member and the entire family unit
(Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele & Robinson, 2018). The concept of family health is very important in
health promotion because a family is very fundamental in ensuring that individuals practice
medication adherence and follow the instruction of care practitioners. A family is the foundation
that supports all individuals and ensures the mental and physical health of people and the entire
community (Kaakinen et al., 2018). This concept promotes health by ensuring that families
improve their abilities in independently dealing with their health problems and health needs. The
concept further ensures health promotion by offering privacy and emotional support to the
patients because they do not have to visit the hospital; instead, they can be treated at home.
Family health services thus create attitudes, behaviours, and an environment that ensures optimal
health promotion for all individuals is achieved (Kaakinen et al., 2018). Some of the health
promotion strategies may include creating an environment that is supportive, developing
individual skills, and reinforcing community action.
These strategies are used to ensure positive health outcomes and improve the wellbeing of the
patient. A nurse will use their expertise to determine the best health promotion strategy that fits
an individual. The first step towards determining a suitable strategy is by assessing the patient’s
problem. This will help the nurse in knowing the healthcare demands of the patient, their family,
and the entire community (Eldredge et al., 2016). The nurse then identifies potential and actual
problems that the patient may be experiencing. This is done through a diagnosis of the needs of
the client. The nurse then plans for the care plan and involves the patient and their family in the
process of decision-making to ensure quality health outcomes (Eldredge et al., 2016).

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References
Eldredge, L. K. B., Markham, C. M., Ruiter, R. A., Fernández, M. E., Kok, G., & Parcel, G. S.
(2016). Planning health promotion programs: an intervention mapping approach. John
Wiley & Sons.
Kaakinen, J. R., Coehlo, D. P., Steele, R., & Robinson, M. (2018). Family health care nursing:
Theory, practice, and research. FA Davis.