Health Promotion and Ill Health Prevention Report: Nursing Perspective

This report delves into the critical aspects of promoting health and preventing ill health, particularly from a nursing perspective. It emphasizes the necessary skills of nurses, including effective communication, confidence, critical thinking, dedication, and patience. The report explores social determinants of health, such as unemployment, income, food, environment, education, and healthcare, and their impact on health inequalities. It discusses various health promotion approaches and theories, including medical, behavioral change, educational, empowerment, and social change strategies, to address issues like smoking. The role of nurses in organizing health promotion events, providing information, encouraging healthy lifestyles, and increasing awareness of precautions is highlighted. The report also contrasts health promotion approaches and theories, emphasizing their roles in supporting behavioral changes at individual and population levels. It concludes with the significance of health promotion in increasing awareness and promoting healthy habits to maintain appropriate health conditions, and the importance of ethical principles and national codes of conduct in nursing practice.

Promoting Health And Preventing Ill Health
Introduction
Promoting health refers to take measures of preventing
health problems of people and make them aware about
precautions for maintaining their wellness. It includes
various issues like cancer, smoking, alcohol intake, diabetes
and obesity which are commonly observed in people that are
required to be prevent them. The present report is based
specific issue of smoking which should be reduced by
improving behavior of citizens through making them aware
about its harmful effects.
Nurse and skills necessary
Health promotion is very important for encouraging people
towards healthy habit and lifestyle in order to maintain their
appropriate health condition. It is necessary to for nursing
staff to focus on patterns of disease and organise effective
health promotional campaigns for improving knowledge
level of citizen in regards to maintain their health. However,
smoking is responsible for creating various kinds of lung
infection and other diseases which are required to be prevent
by motivating people to avoid smoke.
Necessary skills of nurse Social determinants
There are number of social determinants of health that is
responsible for creating difficulties to maintain better health
condition of people. It consist various factors which are
explained further:
Unemployment and income – The problem of unemployment
and less income is responsible for developing issues for
maintain proper heath. People cannot fulfil their basic needs
due to unemployment which impacts negatively on their
health condition. On the other hand, less income create an
issue for an individual when they are not able to afford
expensive treatment.
Food and environment – This contaminated food and living
atmosphere is surroundings are responsible for creating
infections in body due to lack of cleanliness in society which
develop various severe diseases.
Education and healthcare – Due to lack of education, people
believe on cheap remedies of local shopkeepers which is not
suitable for wellness of an individual or may create
complications. On the other hand, it has been analysed that
citizens gain more complex health condition due to lack of
care services or delayed medical facilities in society.
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Provide information – The nursing staff is required to
change behaviour of people in terms of avoiding smoke
because it can develop lung infections and relevant severe
disease. Nurses can provide proper information about
harmful effects of smoking to individuals and encourage
them for adopting healthy eating.
Organise free check up events – Nurses has a role to organise
health promotion events for providing free check ups for
poor people in order to analyse lung infection earlier and
encourage smokers to avoid this habit for remaining well-
being. Nursing staff is efficient to change their behaviours
and modify the same into healthy habits by providing
knowledge regarding their actual health condition due to
smoking.
Encourage healthy lifestyle – Nursing staff has a duty to
conduct health promotional campaigns according to specific
issue like smoking to eliminate it from society for improving
health of people. They can promote healthy lifestyle by
suggesting favourable habits including balanced diet, avoid
fast food, ignore alcohol & smoke and physical work out on
daily basis.
Increase awareness about precautions – The role of nurse
includes to make people ware about various infections
disease by providing knowledge about lung related problem
like asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease etc. that cause due to smoking. It includes to
motivate citizens by effective communication to avoid
smoke and stay away from the person who is smoking
because passive smoking is also harmful for them.
Necessary skills of nurse
Effective communication – The communication skills is very
important to make strong impact of provided information to
change their behaviour in regards to avoid habit of smoking.
It is necessary to make them understand about harmful
effects of smoke and importance to avoid this habit for
maintain better health condition along with ignoring severe
infectious diseases.
Confidence – Nursing staff should remain confident
in terms of clarifying every doubt and query of people while
there are promoting health by eliminating smoking habit. It
is necessary for them to satisfy individuals with the answer
then only they will trust in professionals and change their
behaviour of smoking.
Critical thinking – It is very important to nurses to
gain skill of critical thinking in order to aid solve medical
problems of daily basis. It is required for them to answers
quickly and accurately to citizens which facilitate to modify
their behaviour towards healthy baits on daily lives.
Dedication & patience – Nursing staff must
maintain their patience level and remain dedicated towards
target population of smokers for encouraging them to avoid
smoking. Sometimes, smokers put silly arguments among
nurses then they should patiently clarify these statements and
motivate them to eliminate smoking from their lifestyle.

Promoting Health And Preventing Ill Health
Impact of inequalities
The impact of inequality in society is responsible for
creating problem of specific communities to gain education
and employment opportunities which is responsible for their
improper health condition. An individual get depressed due
to unequal behaviour and society which impact negatively
on their psychological health condition. However, the
unemployed condition of less income cannot fulfil basic
needs of families and care needs which generate physical
and mental health problems for them. Moreover, entire
community gain infectious disease because of not getting
proper care services due to presence of inequality in society.
Contrast
Considering the health promotion approach and
model, it has been analysed that both are supportive in
conduct health promotion campaigns by supporting change
in people in terms of adopting healthy habits for remaining
well-being. Meanwhile, these are favourable to establish
more effective as well as efficient strategies in terms of
adopting appropriate ways for encouraging people to avoid
smoking. In addition to this, it is helpful to make people
understand about side effects and cause of severe infectious
lung disease along with important to avoid this habit for
gaining healthy life. Moreover, health promotion approach
and theory has different roles and pathway of
implementation but goal is same for motivating people
towards healthy lifestyle by avoiding negative activities like
daily eating fast food, smoke, alcohol and sedentary
behaviour.
Contribution of nurse in reducing health
inequalities
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Conclusion
From the above PPT, it has been concluded that health
promotion is favourable to increase awareness of people
regarding precautions and harmful habits for maintain their
appropriate health condition. It consist roles of nurse like
provide information, organise free check up events,
encourage healthy lifestyle and increase awareness about
precautions along their essential skills including effective
communication, confidence, critical thinking dedication &
patience. Basically, in includes social determinants of health
like unemployment, income, food, environment, education
and healthcare which negative impacts of inequality on
people.
References
The nursing staff is required focus on ethical principles and
national codes of conduct while treating any individual.
They should remain careful and provide appropriate medical
facilities on time for making them well-being. However,
senior nurse can make strict policies for eliminating the
factor of inequality from healthcare sector which facilitate to
deliver fair as well as appropriate care facilities for wellness
of discriminated citizens in country. Moreover, hospital
management can establish criterion of punishment for
attempting neglecting behaviour and partial behaviour with
patients. Additionally, nursing staff can consider certain
aspects for tackling health inequalities such as working
conditions, physical environment, income & social status,
education, genetic environment, coping skills, healthcare
services and social support networks.
Health Promotion Approaches
The health promotion approaches and theories are helpful to
promote better health with the help of supporting change at
individual and population level. Health promotion approach
is based on specific factor to be focus for making strategies
which is helpful to eliminate specific issue like smoking
effectively. Whereas health promotion theory is supportive
in planning, understanding, identification, development and
implementation of intervention in regards to improve entire
health of population.
Comparison
Health promotion approach – This can be described as
effective factors through which specific strategies and
interventions can be established according to specific issue
in health promotion. It includes number of aspects such as
medical, behaviour change, educational, empowerment and
social change in terms of avoiding specific problem like
smoking from the society. Meanwhile, two or more factors
can be utilised in order to eliminate an issue of smoking that
support change behaviour change at individual and
population level to avoid smoke for maintaining better
health.
Health promotion theories – Comparatively,
theories consist various options like social cognitive theory,
health belief model, theory or reasoned action or planed
behaviour, stages of change model and ecological models. In
this context, only single and suitable theory can be applied in
specific health promotion according to the issue of smoking
in society.