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Health Promotion Strategies for Nurses

Josefina A. Tuazon, RN, DrPH
University of the Philippines Manila
Vice Chair, Phil Coal for Prev Control of NCD Health Promotion Strategies
Phil Asso Diabetes educators (PADE)
National Asthma Movement (NAM)  It is manifested through
Framework Conv Alliance of Phil (FCTC)  Acts of advocacy
 Empowerment of the people
Why an emphasis on BEHAVIOR?
 Building social support systems that enable people to make
 To succeed. Need active and effective participation of the people
healthy choices and live a healthy life
whose health we seek to improve
 Virtually all members of a target population can play an active role in OTTAWA Charter on Health Promotion:
improving their health Five Action Areas
 Behavior is thus a critical factor or any professional or program 1. Build healthy public policy
interventions  Put health on agenda of policy makers in all sectors &
 Need to measure behaviors in populations e.g. BRFSS levels of society, mainly government
HEALTH PROMOTION –Conceptual Framework 2. Create supportive environments
 Social, political economic and physical dimensions of
environment
3. Strengthen community action
 Community origin at the heart of this process is
empowerment of communities, their ownership and
control of their own destinies
Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion
Five action Areas
4 Develop Personal Skills
THE LIFESTYLE CONSTRUCT  Personal and social development through providing information,
 “Behavior” not as isolated acts totally within the control of the education for health and enhancing life skills-arena for health
individual education
 Socially conditioned. Culturally embedded, economically constrained
patterns of living 5 Reorient health Services
 Include training of health professionals

Nurses role in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

 Model healthy lifestyle behaviors and attitudes
 Facilitate client involvement in assessment implementation and
eval of health goals
Definition and Scope of Health Promotion
 Teach clients self-care strategies to enhance fitness, improve
nutrition, manage stress, enhance relationships
LAWRENCE W. GREEN  Assist individuals, families, communities to increase their levels of
 Health education is any combination of learning experiences health
designed to facilitate voluntary actions conductive to health. Nurses’ Role in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
 Health promotion is the combination of educational and  Teach clients to be effective health care consumers
environmental supports for actions and conditions of living  Assist clients to develop and choose health promoting options
conducive to health
 Guide clients’ development in effective problem solving and
PRECEDE TO PROCEED FRAMEWORK decision making
Definition and Scope of Health Promotion  Reinforce clients’ personal & family health promoting behaviors
 Advocate in community for changes that promote a healthy
Ottawa Charter on Health Promotion, 1986
environment
 Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase
Health Promotion Programs
control over, and to improve, their health … Health is, therefore seen
1. Information dissemination
as resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a
2. Health appraisal and wellness assessment
positive concept emphasizing social & personal resources, as well
3. Lifestyle and behavior change
as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just a
4. worksite wellness programs
responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-
5. environmental control programs
styles to well-being
PROMOTING HEALTHY LIFESTYLE:
THUS,
EIGHT GOOD HEALTH HABITS
 “HEALTH PROMOTION is the science and art of helping people 1. Sleeping 7-8 Hours regularly
change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health…” 2. Healthy eating
(Greene L. 1990)
 Eating more vegetables, fruits, fiber rich food, and
BY
limiting fats, sodium
 Enhancing awareness
 Eating breakfast regularly
 Changing behavior – promoting healthy lifestyles & community
 Snacking little or not at all
action for health
3. Maintaining near-optimal body weight
 Creating conditions which make it possible to live a healthy life– 4. Regular physical activity & exercise (30 mins ≥ 5days a week,
SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT  greatest impact moderate intensity
Health Promotion Promoting Healthy Lifestyle:
FOCUS: STRATEGIES Eight Good Health Habits
 Individual - Educational 5. Avoiding smoking & exposure to smoke
 Group - Motivational 6. Consuming alcohol moderately
 Populations -Organizational 7. Promoting coping and adaptation: stress management &
-Economic relaxation
-regulatory 8. Periodic health examination (PHEX) or check up.
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