NURBN2009 Health Promotion Program Report: Diabetes Mellitus Control

This report details a health promotion program designed to prevent and reduce the risk of diabetes mellitus within the City of Casey. The program's SMART goals, emphasizing specificity, measurability, achievability, realism, and time frame, are outlined. It explores the concept of empowerment in diabetes management, highlighting how patients can gain knowledge and skills to improve their health. The report differentiates between health promotion and health education, emphasizing the program's focus on strategies to improve overall health. It also covers advocacy, mediation, and enabling strategies used to reach the target population, including the involvement of community councils and healthcare professionals. The report discusses health equity and equality within the program, showing how all community members are provided with equal opportunities and resources. Furthermore, it emphasizes the critical role of nurses in providing personalized care, education, and motivation to patients, offering insights into the practical implementation and evaluation of the program. The report is based on the assignment brief for NURBN2009 and includes references to relevant literature.

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Health Promotion Program
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Name of the University
Author Note

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1.
Specific (S) The aim of the program was specific towards the reduction of risk of
diabetes mellitus among the people.
Measurable
(M)
The aim and objectives could be measured by observing the activity of
people after the program in case of physical activity, healthy diets and
health consciousness
Achievable (A) The aim was achieved by providing proper information of diabetes to the
people and involvement of different community institutions which can
promote the health program.
Realistic (R) The health program was conducted in different schools, colleges, locality
etc. Hence, it is possible to reach most of the target population.
Time frame
(T)
The change was observed within two months, however a time period of
six months was required.
2. Empowerment can be defined as a process which promotes knowledge and self-
awareness among the patents and influence their behaviour to enhance the quality of life
(Rossi et al, 2015). In case of diabetes, there are three main concept of empowerment. Firstly,
the patient can manage the condition by personal skills; secondly, the patients required
adequate knowledge of the condition so that they can make the decision; thirdly, they patients
need to practically apply those skills to improve their lives (Rossi et al, 2015). In our plan, the
patients will develop their personal skills by getting the information about healthy diet and
exercise. The ‘Teach back method’ will help the patients by providing the information. As a
result, the patient will have a understanding of the negative impact of diabetes.

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3. Health promotion helps people to make decision regarding their own health. It requires
different social and environmental strategies which improve the quality of the life by
preventing the risk factors related to the illness (World Health Organization, 2019 a). In our
program, the main focus was to reduce the risk of diabetes mellitus among the people and the
program also involved different strategies to reach the people and help them. However, health
education refers to the information shared by health sectors related to illness (World Health
Organization, 2019 b). Hence, our study is focusing on health promotion, as it was not only
educating the people but also helping them to achieve a healthy life.
4. Advocacy in health promotion refers to the individual and social activities which
helps to gain policy support, social; acceptance, political commitment and system support
(World Health Organisation, 2019 c). In our case, the involvement of local community
council, Victorian government, community support workers, dieticians, nurses, mental health
support organisation helped us to maintain proper advocacy. Mediation in health promotion
stands for a process by which population from different background can be treated in a way
that promotes health (World Health Organisation, 2019 c). In our study, we conducted the
study in local community, schools and colleges where a diverse population can be addressed
and health promotion can occur. Enabling refers to empowerment of people with the help of
the health promoting program (World Health Organisation, 2019 c). The result of our study
indicated that people were avoiding foods with high sugar content. It describes the fact that
adequate empowerment has been done by the health promoting program.
5. Health equity refers to the reasons behind the contrast in quality of health or health
care facilities in a highly heterogenic population (Culyer, 2015). In our study, the main focus
is to reduce risk of diabetes mellitus by health promotion. The results indicates that 25% of
the population was responding to the health promotion program by avoiding unhealthy foods.
This indicates that health equity is maintained in our study. On the other hand health equality

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refers to the providing equal opportunities to the patients irrespective of their background
(Culyer, 2015). In our case, we conducted the program in different local communities,
schools and colleges, so that, all the information can be equally shared among all the people
of the City.
6. The nurses play an important role in diabetic care. The nurses established an
important connection between the patient and other medical professional and can provide
personalised care (Munshi, 2016). As a result, the social and psychological requirements of
the patient can be fulfilled. Apart from that nurses can provide education, motivation and
counselling to the patients which have a direct impact on their behaviour (Munshi, 2016).The
information shared by the nurses include the risk factors, advantages of physical activity,
importance of diet etc. In our plan, the involvement of nurses can help to provide these
mentioned information to the patient.

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