Scholarly Paper: Promotion of Community Health in Ontario, Canada

This scholarly paper examines community health promotion strategies, focusing on the context of Ontario, Canada. It identifies vitamin D deficiency in children as a key health issue and explores four core concepts: biomedical, psychosocial, ecological, and medical interventions. The biomedical concept emphasizes the prevention and early detection of diseases, addressing issues like gastrointestinal disorders and bone weakness. The psychosocial concept highlights the influence of social, cultural, psychological, and economic factors on health, emphasizing the importance of respecting cultural values and addressing economic burdens. The ecological concept focuses on environmental factors like water and land pollution and their impact on community health. Lastly, the paper discusses medical interventions, specifically tertiary interventions aimed at improving the quality of life for those already affected by chronic diseases. The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of a technical approach to improve public health and the positive impact of quality healthcare services.

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Scholarly paper:
Abstract: Four concepts of community health promotion strategies have been stated
in the concept model (Fig 1). This study talks about the fact that community health problems
are associated with different types of associations. These are mainly social, economic,
biomedical and cultural associations. Intervention strategies are used in order to tackle the
harmful effects of these associations. This research study is based on the concept map stated
above which aims at preventing the condition of vitamin D deficiency in children. The
methodology uses several concepts for the implementations of various plans for the
improvement of community health standards throughout the world.
` Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency in children has been a major issue in the
Canadian community. This deficiency leads to occurance of bone weakness among children.
Community health has been deteriorating day by day due to environmental conditions.
Mortality rates for people had increased to a far extent that that was earlier. On an
introductory note, it can be stated that community health is a vast area inside the field of
medical science. This study consists of protection, maintenance, and improvement of public
health. Four concepts will be selected concerning the above-stated concept map. In-depth
discussion for the connection of these four concepts will be provided in the following
paragraphs. The community concerned here is the Ontario community of Canada.
Aims and objectives: The main aim of this scholarly study is to provide the readers
with different concepts of community health promotion strategies (Ontario, Canada).
The objectives include the need for these strategies and the reason for the use of these
strategies.

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Methodology: The major study under which these four concepts are grouped is the
study of health. The first concept under health study is the biomedical concept (Jha et
al., 2018). The main objective of this concept is to promote the absence of disease in human
communities. This goal can be reached by implementing several nursing intervention
strategies. Primary and secondary interventions are grouped into this concept. According to
the primary intervention strategies, remedies to prevent the occurrences of a particular
disease are to be checked (American Diabetes Association, 2016). Chronic disease can be
selected here for discussion, gastrointestinal disorders. These disorders include every disorder
that is related to the lower part of the body. The liver, pancreas, and intestines are mainly
affected areas. The primary interventions for the elimination of this disease will be to
vaccinate people with hepatitis vaccines and to ensure proper nutrition for people.
Malnutrition will lead to the destruction of the stomach and intestinal wall linings and give
rise to gastrointestinal disorders. A few parts of the Ontario community of Canada has been
found to suffer from chronic diseases (Van Bogaert & Clarke, 2018). This concept model will
help them in preventing the occurrence of the diseased condition. Bone weakness diseases
such as brittle bones and osteoporosis occurs due to vitamin D deficiency in children. Other
chronic diseases can be prevented by ensuring proper immunization of the community and
providing people with quality foods. Secondary intervention includes a fast detection of any
disease at an early stage (Prince, Bryce, & Ferri, 2018). Liver cirrhosis, one of the most
important gastrointestinal disorders, needs detection at an early stage. Otherwise, the cirrhosis
can gradually progress to cancer. The pathophysiology of this disease involves the scarring of
the liver due to the accumulation of ascitic fluid. Detections can be done by the proper
diagnosis of the disease at an early stage. Ultrasonography and endoscopy of the person's
liver provide a detailed condition of the organ concerned. Therefore, it can be stated that this

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concept mainly focuses on the diagnosis and prevention of diseases that harm the human
community.
The second concept under the health category is a psychosocial concept (Van
Bogaert & Clarke, 2018). This concept is stated to include every other factor which is not
related to a biomedical concept. Social, political, psychological, cultural and economic
factors are included in this concept. Cultural factors such as values, beliefs, and rituals related
to the community people. The most important part by which the community can be helped is
by respecting every cultural factor during a treatment. Different cultural factors are found to
have been associated with the Ontario community of Canada. Therefore, this concept will
also help in maintaining every cultural factor during the application of the health service
model. The psychological condition of the patient is also to take care of since it plays a major
role in the treatment procedures. The concerned patient will feel well if he or she is culturally
respected by healthcare professionals. An evidence-based case study states that the religious
beliefs of a patient were accepted by the concerning nurse and the patient recovered faster
than the normal rate (Prasad et al., 2016). The economic condition of the patients is to also to
be checked before admitting them to treatment procedures. Strategies should be implemented
so that economically challenged people can afford costly treatment procedures. According to
Bartsch et al., (2016) people from all around the world were struck by the economic burden
of gastrointestinal disorders. Therefore reducing the treatment and diagnosis plans will ensure
a good future for the human community (Van Bogaert & Clarke, 2018). Harmful Political
factors need to be reduced for the promotion of public health. These factors include the
forceful closure of several healthcare facilities and a sudden increase in the cost of medicinal
drugs. Both of the above-stated conditions harm community health to a significant extent.
Lastly, psychosocial factors also pose a serious impact on community health. Stress and
hopelessness conditions among economically challenged people are the main cause of high

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mortality rates in rural areas. Therefore, these two psychosocial factors need to be reduced by
ensuring them proper health services will help in decreasing the mortality rate. This
procedure will work faster with government aid. As a result, it can be stated that this concept
is mainly based on the impact of psychosocial factors on community health.
The third concept under the health category is an ecological concept (Sallis,
Owen & Fisher, 2015). This concept mainly includes the environment in which the people
live. Surrounding water bodies, air, land, and climatic conditions play a major role in the
health of the community. The most important criterion for the effectiveness of this concept is
the presence of clean water bodies. Ponds and rivers should not be used as a place for
dumping garbage. This condition will cause water pollution and also harm water animals.
The whole ecological cycle will be imbalanced because of the above-stated action. The
human community depends on water for its daily activities. Ontario is famous for its lakes
and large water bodies. Therefore preventing water pollution will ensure the wellbeing of the
community. Being polluted, waterborne diseases will affect the community and result in a
high mortality rate. An evidence-based research paper states that one of the main causes of
mortality in Canada is water pollution (Victor, 2017). Several gastrointestinal disorders also
occur due to polluted water bodies. Water plays a major role in the pathology of vitamin D
deficiency disease. This is because of the fact that, vitamin D is needed in different metabolic
processes which requires water for its action (Sallis, Owen & Fisher, 2015). The presence of
coliform bacteria in water makes them polluted and causes several enteric disorders in human
beings. This condition will be prevented by implementing various effective water treatment
strategies. Land pollutions make, in turn, makes the atmosphere directly. Human beings
depend on land for their shelter. However, this is the major part of the ecosystem, that is
being polluted (Stevenson et al., 2016). Land pollution is also connected to air pollution. On
analysis, it can be found that more than seventy percent of health disorders can be prevented

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by ensuring a decrease in land pollution. As a result, it can be stated that the ecological
conditions play a major role in community health standards.
The fourth concept is the concept of other medical interventions. As stated earlier,
Ontario community has been suffering from many chronic diseases. This concept will be
applicable after the first concept fails to work. This intervention strategy involves the
implementation of tertiary intervention strategies. This strategy involves the use of strategies
to improve the quality of community life. Maintaining an optimistic approach towards a
stressful condition is a major factor in the improvement of quality of life (Tannock et al.,
2018). This statement can be supported by a research paper stating that suffering from a
disease is not a major problem (Weiss & Esparza, 2015). The main issue is the strength of the
patient's mind. He or she who is suffering from the disease has to be confident that they will
get recovered from their current condition. Reducing the symptoms of a disease, this is
already present in the people of the community will impose a good psychological impact on
the other people also. The fear of a disease will disappear provided the symptoms of the
disease disappear from the community. Eradication of smallpox from the world, helped
people to forget the fear for the disease (Weiss & Esparza, 2015). The above-stated procedure
was a result of long term research. Strategies as this will make aid in the welfare of the
community.
Results: Successful improvement of the community health standards have been
observed after this study was followed. Successful improvements were observed in the case
of the people belonging to the communities.
Discussion: The concepts described earlier in the methodology section prove that the
human community is affected by diseases and other factors that deteriorate the community
health standards. Research studies were performed previously to check the impacts of these

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health standards in the human community. Medical, financial, ecological, cultural and
political factors influence the human community health. The above line is justified by the
methodology portion of this paper.
Conclusion: On a concluding note, it can be stated that public health can be improved
by a technical approach by the use of various concepts. A bring future can be hoped of
provided the human community is getting a quality health service.

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