Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Nurses by Jane Wills

By Jane Wills

Fundamentals of Health advertising for Nurses is a concise, obtainable creation to overall healthiness promoting and public future health for pre-registration nursing scholars and newly certified nurses. selling the overall healthiness of sufferers is an important a part of the nursing position, and the up to date moment variation of this undemanding booklet discusses the rules for well-being merchandising perform utilizing functional examples, actions and dialogue issues to inspire readers to mirror on their values, debate the problems and follow their wisdom and knowing to practice.

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G. encouraging healthy workplaces and supporting a physical environment that is more conducive to health with “green” public transport and locally grown fresh food. 2. Can you think of any others? 2 Action areas of the Ottawa Charter. 2 Health and health promotion (Continued) 14 Ottawa Charter action areas Examples of interventions Reorient health services t t t t Blood pressure screening at chemists Breastfeeding support services in the community Immunization clinics at neighbourhood clinics or surgeries Chlamydia screening on mobile buses in areas where young people can access them Strengthen community action t Housing estate action group to clean up and increase safety in children’s play area Community Drug Action Teams including schools, parents, churches and shop owners Anti-graffiti action groups in neighbourhoods t t Source: Adapted from WHO (1986).

3. g. g. g. refugees or homeless people often have difficulty in obtaining access to primary health care services, such as registering with a general practitioner (GP). 1 shows the many dimensions in which inequalities in health may be found. The social determinants of health are the collective set of conditions in which people are born, grow up, live and work. These layers of influence include individual lifestyles but also social support, working conditions, education, housing and the physical environment.

1 Housing and coronary heart disease (Hicks and Crowther, 2000) Why is housing relevant to health? When room temperatures fall below 12 °C, cardiovascular changes can be seen that increase the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. There is excess mortality in Britain in the winter. Approximately 40 000 more people die in Britain in winter than in summer, and most of these are older people. 1 (Continued) mostly due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, not hypothermia. Therefore, the risk to health increases as the temperature decreases.

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