This assignment is about how to plan and conduct a health promotion advice on an individual patient to improve patient’s quality of healthy life. In this essay, the author will first of all outline how the government policies, which are the National Service Framework (NSF) for Long-term Conditions and the NSF for Diabetes, were developed. The author will outline briefly all benefits are for her particular patient – Mr Smith (pseudonym name) in compliance with the NMC (2008) on confidentiality, is a 48 year-old taxi driver, who is newly diagnosed with type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM), married with two teenage children. He frequently works during unsocial hours and has very unhealthy life style as he relies on fast-food from cafes for his meals. He is overweight with the Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 and is finding it challenging to maintain a normal blood glucose level. He is also concerned that he may lose his job should he be commenced on insulin. His eldest son is to start university next year and the fees are expensive. The author will then give an analysis of risk factors that may predispose Mr Smith to develop T2DM. Additionally, the author of this essay will briefly overview a health promotion model which is Procheska and Diclemente’s model, follow by a description of the application of this model in facilitating behaviour change with Mr Smith, utilising communication skills and some health promotion interventions to help him improve his health. The author will also acknowledge some barriers which may be encountered to Mr Smith’s lifestyle change and discuss some ethical issues relating to health promotion.…
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The changes that I need to do to become in a total wellness program are my eating habits and physical fitness. More homemade food is better and that means also foods that can be made from scratch and not pre-made. There are so many short cuts people can take now with spices, but they contain so much salt. My mother and grandmother were very good at making food from scratch. The taste is extremely different and it is so much healthier to be able to control what goes into one’s food. The second thing is to get a regular exercise schedule and a set time to do exercise. Those are the major changes that need to be made in my life.…
The way we speak say much about us and can identify regional, ethnic, cultural differences, and even level of education.…
Provide your specific behavior change goal (or goals) statement. This is a broad statement that includes who and what. For example, I would attain a healthy weight.…
“Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being – in body, mind, and spirit,” stated professional wellness speaker none other than Greg Anderson. Before my first day as a Wellness and Programming Administration student, I have not dedicated as much time to thinking about the prospective idea of wellness as a whole in all of its dimensions. For my needs assessment assignment, I learned about two very similar yet different professional treatment facilities and their current ideas of wellness.…
Propositions are statements that establish the relationships between concepts. Within the mentioned theory, there are many propositions that can be established. One such proposition is that uncertainty in illness results from a lack of cognitive schema development when a person has an illness related event. Another proposition would be that individual cognitively process illness-related stimuli and structure meaning from the events (McEwen & Wills, p.243, 2014). It can also be said that changes in uncertainty occur over time, either creating positive or negative assessment of uncertainty. Lastly, the theory proposes that uncertainty is an opportunity. Meaning that being uncertain “opens up the consideration of multiple possibilities…
Choose a community group OR social justice organisation to research. Present your findings on the following:…
Healthy people 2020 objectives related to adolescent is to reduce use of cigarettes use by adolescents by 3.5 percent and the initiation of cigarette use by 2 percent. Another goal would be to reduce the number of adolescents that are exposed to cigarette smoke by 4.5 percent. Statistics from Healthy People 2020 show that in 2008 and 2009 19.5 percent of adolescents were current smokers, 6.3 percent had just begun smoking in the past 12 months, and 45.5 percent of adolescents who do not smoke were exposed to secondhand smoke (Healthy people 2020, 2017). We believe the overall goal for this population is to increase their knowledge of tobacco’s negative effects on their health. The purpose of education on this topic would be to reduce the number of people who use these products, which would increase the population's overall health by helping reduce secondhand smoke exposure.…
According to workers, organizations with significant wellness programs remain a minority. Demographic evidence suggests that the current laissez-faire attitudes toward workplace wellness found in many organizations will soon need to change. It's important to understand those needs to tailor a wellness program to the organization and its people. To be successful, wellness programs must be employee driven and management supported. (Walker, 2004)…
I think nobody is complety healthy because we are not perfect and it means we will have several illnesses or something inside of your body will not work fine. Also, there are people that make a lot of exercises and they harm themselve. They become it in a obsessed. Nevertheless, there are people that never make no exercise anytime and it is bad for them. On the other hand, I guess my health is good. As well, I try to eat less fat but I am not obsessed with it. Besides, I have not went to the doctor for a longer. So, I think I am fine. For me people is not healthy enough because their job or their responsibilities make them have not time to take care of them. For example, work recently have become in a jail for people. I mean, they even have…
Did you know that September is Healthy Aging Month and Falls Prevention Awareness Month? These topics may appear to be different, but actually are aligned in many ways. Establishing healthy aging practices is a falls prevention strategy in itself!…
I decided to choose stress reduction for my personal wellness project. I chose this topic because it hits home base extremely hard. I want to definitely reduce my stress intake and be able to cope with challenging situations. I want to be at least eighty percent in control of my life. I find myself getting stressed when unexpected things happen, and I am not prepared for it. I also want to improve my way of handling circumstances which make me stress.…
The wheel said that time management, relationships is the highest Health and stress management, self –knowledge and study skills is the second highest, study skills and personal life skills are the third highest and career is the fourth highest. I rate myself base on the things I have achieve in life. I gave time management a nine because I am a very organize and multi task person and I mange my time very well. I often make time to do all what I need to do and have enough time to do everything that I want to. I rate Relationships a nine because my relationships with my friends and family are very important to me and I cherish it very much. I rate health and stress management an eight because I am health I try my best to maintain a healthy diet.…
Opening my one-day activity, I would ask the students who like to go shopping. Then ask them how they felt when they went to the store with someone and was told them no they could have what they ask for? I will introduce to our topic for the day “Needs and Wants of a Dollar”. Then I will state that they have 1 minutes to pick up two items from the mini store, that in the class. After the couple minutes, they would sit in a large group and assorted their items in the need or want bin. While the saying if their items is a need or want and putting the items in the bin, I will tally up their answer as a need or want.…