Why Is The Concept Of Family Health Important
The family is the oldest institution important and fundamental to humanity, although recent global events are leading to the evolution of the family structure. Yet it is still an essential or vital unit/ building block of society. Some of the importance of family health include family-oriented interventions are likely to have large effects on health outcomes. Family-based interventions have the potential to affect multiple disorders concomitantly. Studies show positive effects of family interventions in both the short-term and long-term. Because these approaches/interventions are directed at modifying the health behaviours of family members, it produces long-term benefits and even transgenerational effects. Family-oriented interventions are easier and cheaper to implement and more effective with a higher population impact.
According to Garcia-Huidobro &Medenhall, 2015, because family contexts are where health behaviours are usually learned, developed, maintained and changed, targeting family systems rather than individual patients is an option to further improve the health status of individuals, families and communities. The family concept of health is important because it is cost-effective and produces long-lasting results for the public.
Consider the various strategies for health promotion.
Health promotion strategies are vital to effective health promotion education, teaching, implementation and result. Some of the health promotion strategies include building a healthy public policy, creating a supportive environment, strengthening community actions, developing personal skills and reorientation of health services.
These strategies are based on the knowledge that health is influenced by a complex mix of interrelated factors such as individual behaviours and beliefs, family environments, community and work cultures, practices and policies and broader socioeconomic factors such as culture, legislation, the media and economics.
How does a nurse determine which strategy would best enable the targeted individuals to gain more control over and improve their health?
Health promotion, according to the world health organization (WHO), is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their individual health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Disease promotion is different from health promotion because it focuses on specific efforts aimed at reducing the development and severity of chronic diseases and other morbidities.
Whereas wellness which is synonymous with health promotion, is attitudes and active decisions made by an individual that contribute to positive health behaviour outcomes. The best strategy is the one that is able to achieve positive health behaviour outcomes in the targeted population or sub-population. The strategy must have the following elements: increase risk perception, reinforcement of positive behaviours, influence social norms, increase the availability of support and needed services, and empower individuals to change or improve their health conditions—It must have communication, education, policy systems, and environment components as well as evaluation as part of the strategy.
References
Rural Health Information Hub. Health Communication Retrieved at https:// www. ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/health-promotion/2/strategies/health- communication
Health Promotion- Programs and Strategies. Retrieved at https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/about/health-promotion
Diego, Garcia-Huidobro & Tai Mendenhall ,2015. Family Oriented Care: Opportunities for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Journal of Family Medicine.Dis. Prev 2015,1:2 ISSN:2469-5793
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Why is the concept of family health important? Consider the various strategies for health promotion.
Why Is The Concept Of Family Health Important
How does a nurse determine which strategy would best enable the targeted individuals to gain more control over, and improve, their health?