Report on Health Promotion: Needs Identification and Prioritization

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of health promotion, commencing with a foundational understanding of its principles, as defined by the World Health Organization, emphasizing empowerment, participation, holistic approaches, and multi-sectoral collaboration. The report then transitions to the critical process of identifying health needs, referencing Maslow's hierarchy of needs and examining relevant research articles focusing on vulnerable populations, such as homeless individuals. The subsequent section prioritizes health needs, highlighting the importance of awareness, education, and accessible healthcare services, particularly for underserved communities. The report underscores education as a crucial priority, advocating for the integration of technology in classrooms and its role in equipping individuals with essential skills for the future. Furthermore, it explores the benefits of electronic learning and the influence of technology on individual decision-making and skill development. The report aims to provide comprehensive insights into health promotion strategies, needs assessment, prioritization, and the significance of education within the context of public health.

Contents
Background..................................................................................................................................................2
Identifying Health Needs.............................................................................................................................3
Prioritizing the health needs........................................................................................................................5
Education as a Priority need....................................................................................................................6
Aims and Objectives....................................................................................................................................9
Health promotion activities.........................................................................................................................9
Action Plan................................................................................................................................................10
Communication with patients...............................................................................................................10
Training of physicians:...........................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................13
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Background
The process of providing knowledge and enabling people to control and improve their health is
known as Health promotion. This is the approach to bring a social change in the society and
helps in resolving the health problems.
The World Health Organization introduced seven important principles of health promotion and
those principles are as follows: World Health Organization Principles of Health Promotion
First initiative or principle is an Empowerment, Health promotion that helps to enable people
and community to assume more powers for the various factors that affecting the health such as
personal, socioeconomic and environmental factors.
Secondly, Participative Health promotion principles involve in the engagement of people in
planning, implementation and evaluation. A holistic Health promotion initiative helps in
improving health physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Inter-sectoral Health promotion
initiatives are the initiative taken by the collective involvement of agencies from relevant sectors.
Equitable Health promotion initiatives take place to show a concern for equity and social justice.
Sustainable Health promotion is helping individuals and communities in maintaining initial
funding. Multi-strategy Health promotion initiatives is a step that uses a variety of ways in
combination with one another. The variety of approaches are like policy development,
organizational change, community development, education and communication. Looking at all
the initiatives the motive of health promotion is to encourage positive health and protecting
people from ill health. Moreover, health promotion plays a key role in establishing preventive
health measures such as screening and immunization (Kumar & Preetha, 2012).
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For the promotion and the improvement of the health of people, there is a strategic framework
has been developed by the organization which has one objective is to promote the health and
remove the inequalities. The health promotion, strategic framework sets many objectives and
these all objectives are clear, consistent and accurate in nature and they are focusing more on the
health of the promotion. This framework is not only focused on the activity is to be done by the
organization, but also pays attention on how to assess and analyze the needs of people by doing
research on the target market where they live, work and play, these all are considered as the
settings of the health promotion.
Identifying Health Needs
It is very imperative to identify the needs of human being and there are many theories and
studies are applied to identify the needs. It is very common thing that every human being has
needs and their needs are changing with the time. The very popular theory is used to identify the
needs developed by the Maslow. Maslow introduced hierarchy of five needs.
Maslow Theory of identifying needs- Maslow’s hierarchy needs to contain five levels. The lower
most level is physiological needs which are the most basic needs, including food, shelter,
clothing. The next level is the safety needs which include security of the job, security of body,
security of resources, etc. next is the belongingness needs which include family, affection,
friendship etc. the level rises up to esteem needs which includes confidence, self esteem,
achievement, respect. The last level is the self actualization needs which include creativity,
acceptance of facts, etc. In order to move properly in the hierarchy, one must satisfy the basic
needs and only then the self actualization needs are fulfilled.
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To analyze the health needs there are 3 research articles will be discussed that are helpful in
identifying the needs and prioritize the needs of homeless young people.
Article 1- The author in the article “Rebuilding Bridges: Homeless People’s Views on the
Role of Vocational and Educational Activities in Their Everyday Lives “ explains that the
Homeless people are facing many problems in their routine work of marginalization. As a result
of which they are suffering from low confidence, low self efficacy. Training and employment for
the homeless people will be the best step that can be adopted to re-build the gaps or bridges. This
article suggests that the engagement of people in the activities is not for the future goals, but this
is aim to build the confidence and self efficacy.
Article 2- In this article “homeless health care raising the standards “ introduces a multifaceted
approach that deals with the homeless people and more concern is given to substance abuse,
mental health disorders, physical ill health and homelessness itself. Work activities also help
people to walk in a right direction and stay away from the alcohol and drugs.there are many
factors that are responsible for the ill health of the homeless people like poverty, alcohol,
substance abuse, mental disorders. The expenses related to healthcare are increasing day by day
and the patients are growing enormously in number and therefore, it has become imperative to
figure out new and cost effective ways to manage the records and costs related areas. This helps
in the improvement of problems which are being faced by hospitals, which are related to costs.
There is a dire need of the DRG process as it helps to analyze that whether the information given
by healthcare industries correspond to the information which is given in the records which are
maintained regarding the patients.
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Article 3 This article. “Wellbeing for homeless people: a Salutogenic Approach” helps in
identifying the reason of homelessness caused by the poverty and social exclusion. The
Salutogenic approach is the positive orientation on health and the aim of this study is to explore
and gain the experiences of well-being in the location where the homeless people live. The
internal and external resistance resources are critical factors affecting on the homeless people
who have temporary accommodation. Wellbeing was consistently linked with both social and
formal activities.
Prioritizing the health needs
Though we have been witnessing a remarkable change in health status of people, but in many
parts of many countries, health inequalities are still prevailing. Many factors are attributed to
such inequalities for example, unequal distribution of income, high exposure to risk and many
more. Many countries have adopted this as their priority to improve the health of its citizens, the
health care department of the country and the nation as a whole. It is very important to create
awareness among people, especially uneducated people as to what are the factors that can affect
their health to such an extent that it can prove fatal for them. On the other hand, it is also very
important to inform them about the facilities being provided for the improvement of health of
poor people. The people who belong to high elite class are well aware of all the facilities and
they even have income to deal with health issues, but the problem arises when it comes to people
for whom many things are totally new and advanced healthcare department is one of them. Good
health is very important for people to participate in the employment opportunities given to them
by the government (Ramirez, et al., 2008). For any being, health should be the topmost priority
because a person cannot succeed if he doesn't have a fit body. People who are mentally and
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physically unfit may unable to produce good results and remain unemployed, which keep them
away from adding to the economy of the nation.
There are many factors leading to bad health for example bad eating habits, drinking and
smoking, unhygenic environment, etc. Such factors need to be eradicated for living beings to live
healthy and live longer. People need to change their living styles to improve their health.
Government in many countries has started opening healthcare centers at easily reachable points,
where cheap and economical but best health care services will be provided and all are made
especially for the benefit of poor people. Healthy mind can do wonders and people need to stay
healthy to bring about change. Many people cannot afford to improve their health as they cannot
afford the high fees, so the government has been making efforts to provide best services in a less
price (Jakab, 2016).
Education as a Priority need
Many researchers have also opined that educational technology must be well integrated into
classrooms and the academic curriculum of students. With the introduction and development of
educational technology in the classrooms, a teacher has to face the challenge to integrate the
technological methods in the ways of their teaching and regular classes. It is difficult for them to
adjust to the new use of technology and they need to have the knowledge of the same. With the
development of information and communication technology the methods of technological
education also increased. With the increase in the use of technology, especially computers, a
number of researchers tried to see the benefits and the effect of their use compared to the
methods of older traditional learning. For a very long time, a comparison has been made between
the advantages and disadvantages of these two teaching techniques. The period from the year
1967 to the year 1972 is considered to be a period of compilation and consolidation of the
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educational technology. It was after this period that the use of technology was introduced and it
started prevailing in the educational system.
Use of technological methods in learning helps them to learn technical skills and makes it easier
for them to survive in the competitive world. In the present times, schools and teachers
themselves encourage students to have more and more technological knowledge. According to a
few researches, the most popular jobs today will be of no value in the upcoming decade or half a
decade, because technology will automate most of these tasks. Thus, it becomes highly important
to equip our children with technical skills so that they are able to create their own jobs in the
future. Technology helps the people to come up with studies according to their own pace. Even if
a person is not able to attend classes, he can access the study material online. It is easier for
people to learn from computers because machines are more patient than humans. Also, people
can learn at their own pace as the grasping capability of every individual is not same. So people
feel more comfortable with computers.
Electronic learning or M-learning has made it possible to for employees or manufacturers to
study and learn without actually being present in front of customers. M-learning focuses on the
mobility of the learner through interaction with portable devices. It has thus, made it possible for
the learners as well as the workers carry on multiple tasks simultaneously. It is convenient
because it is virtually accessible anywhere and everywhere. Besides, sharing information through
electronic means is easier and consumes lesser time and involves lesser costs. As a result, the
process has become more efficient and over time the project quality has increased too. It is true
to say that electronic media is very well replaced traditional methods of learning like books and
notebooks.
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The use of technology is very important, but the most important thing is to define how to use it
and for this the employees especially have a major role to play. Sharing knowledge through
online or electronic media is the best way of individual decision making process. Cell phones
and internet reduces their dependency on the paper work.
This method helps them to analyze every aspect of the problems that can be possible in various
ways. They can do a certain task in multiple ways. Use of interactive games and software helps
them to develop different skills. For example:
 Coral draw software
 Adobe Photoshop, etc. may also help them to learn artistic skills.
Let’s take an example of the education industry, how the technology plays role in education and
how that knowledge is beneficial for students also. At the present time, the competition is
increasing in every sphere, be it studies or jobs. As the world develops every upcoming job
requires the applicants to possess technical skills and have some scientific know-how.
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Part 2: A Strategy to Address the Health Needs
Aims and Objectives
In short, the purpose of the health promotion, strategic framework is to set out the means by
which the organization will:
 To meet its strategic objectives to protect, promote and improve the health of the
population
 Make sure that all health promotion practice during providing health services is in
collaboration with international standards.
 Increase the ability of the organization to enhance the health and well being of the people
in the organization or outside the organization.
 Collaborate into all aspects of its health promotion service (Murphy, 2011).
 Development of the multi-sectoral approach to tackle with the all social determinants of
health and health inequalities
 Maximize the use of resources in an effective and efficient way to promote the health and
minimizes the cost of reducing or curing the disease.
 Value for money is to be ensured with the aim of reducing workforce.
Health promotion activities.
In order to deliver the health promotion framework and an organization wants to all the activities
will be taking place at the national level then the following actions are required.
1. Clear, accurate and consistent planning, monitoring and evaluation of programs
2. Development of plans for business
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3. Role of governance
4. Processes across health and social care staff groups and make sure about safe and
effective health promotion practice
5. Promote work in partnership to improve health across both within the organization and
external to the organization (Pooler & Korda, 2011).
6. Planning to support involvement from local areas to relevant national plans and policies
7. Assistance with the activities such as impact of health, addressing health inequalities,
development of community etc.
Action Plan
To improve the management of the system and health of the population following are some of
the actions that can be taken by the organization:-
Communication with patients:
By knowing and trying to understand the policies related to payments of the payers, the staff
close to the point of action should work more closely with patients to enter the true and correct
information related to insurance as well as let the patients know clearly the coverage policies of
every plan, and submission of claims correctly so the claim adjudicates accurately on the initial
submission. The policies should be clear, understandable and knowledgeable as well as
transparent.
Training of physicians:
To get the benefits of better coding both after and before the switch to ICD-10, training is
necessary and that should be additional. The accurate way to aid the physicians to help them
improve the accuracy of is to utilize at least 10 minutes every month at meetings of physicians to
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let them read a note which is blinded and coding it along with an order that is certified. At times,
physicians are also benefitted from having a shadow which is a coder shadow and scribing the
visit in addition to the documentation process to effectuate comparison what one comes up with
(Government, 2015).
Education: The education sector plays a very important role in the growth of the nation and it
is imperative to incorporate new strategies as per the changing environment. New facilities are
introduced in order to provide best education to the youth and government is spending more on
education sector since past few years. E-classrooms have become significant these days for
providing better classrooms for children. For such classrooms, expert personnel are required to
be appointed to deal with such machinery equipped with e-classrooms. Students find it easy and
convenient to study in such environment as it is full of life and enjoyment.
Proper documentation:
The documents to be made should be clear and correct without any complexities and the data
entered should be true without any false representations. If the information entered is correct, it
will help the insurance payers know the true information so I would like to recommend that
whenever the information is entered, it should be as per the policies and should not be against the
needs and requirements of the guidelines made regarding the coding.
Transparency of the system:
The system of entering information, insurance policies, coding should be crystal clear and should
be confidential and the patients should know about the diagnosis and the results should be clear
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to the patients and the payers should know with what treatment the patients are going through
and how much time will be required to get through the treatment (Public Health Ontario, 2012).
No under-coding or over-coding:
The physicians should not engage themselves in over-coding or under-coding and should better
represent the true information to not to mislead anyone and this helps in improving the quality of
the management and reducing the level of risk and allegations of fraud and legal penalties.
References
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