Population and Community Health Promotion
Population and Community Health Promotion
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Discussion 1 Marlon Rodriguez
Population and Community Health Promotion
Health practitioners and the general public play a competitive role in population health prevention and promotion. Health care providers such as nurses and doctors sometimes have multifaceted roles as holistic healthcare providers to promote community health. They can organize public outreach programs and coordinate health education to enlighten the community about well-being. The paper explores specific actions health providers can take regardless of their professional practices to promote community health.
Health Education and Promotion Programs
Health education is an everyday social science used by health providers to promote health behaviors and well-being in the community. Health education initiatives focus on providing essential knowledge and information to the community members and practical skills that enable the public to adopt healthy behaviors (Whitehead, 2018). Health education increases health knowledge and influences the health attitudes of individuals. For instance, nurses can educate the public about the benefits of child immunization in preventing diseases and boosting immunity. Knowledge of immunization can influence individuals who have specific attitudes toward vaccination to seek these services, thus promoting the well-being of children. Health promotion is much broader since it is done by professionals while responding to health developments. It helps address concerns related to health inequities and access within the communities.
Community Assessment and Intervention Planning
Community diagnosis or assessment is an action that health practitioners conduct to identify factors that promote the health of a community and develop strategies to improve them. Health practitioners then design specific goals and programs that help solve particular health concerns identified (Lee et al., 2017). The nurse collaborates with community members to conduct a community assessment and diagnosis processes to help them plan community programs. A nurse must perform a community diagnosis for them to implement a nursing intervention that helps solve the problem. Nurses conduct the diagnosis process to ensure the interventions’ efficiency, promote standardization, and conduct follow-up activities, monitoring, and evaluation while assessing if they have achieved their goals. A nurse can also plan health activities and programs that entail fundamental behavior changes. For example, nurses can coordinate nutritional assessment or diagnosis to prevent concerns of being underweight, malnutrition, or overweight in the community.
Advocate Social Change
Social change initiatives focus on the interaction of humans and the transformation of institutions and functions. Nurses can promote social change by advocating for better policies that solve health inequities. Professional advocacy that orients towards better policies can address social conditions and the health inequalities that marginalized and vulnerable populations face. Health practitioners deal directly with the patients and members of the community and can quickly identify concerns that influence poor health outcomes, such as insurance. They have an influential voice and can articulate social change programs that inspire policy formulations. Also, they play a vital role in health policy formulation since they offer evidence-based insights that make the policies effective in achieving their goals. For example, nurses can advocate for equity and equality in health insurance for the LGBTQ community.
Coordinate Outreach Programs
Outreach programs aim to improve, support, and uplift the conditions of vulnerable groups within the communities. The main goals of the outreach programs are to improve knowledge, promote civic engagement and strengthen the community’s needs by addressing them (Suresan et al., 2019). Also, the health practitioners promote partnership by engaging in outreach programs. Nurses play a central goal in community outreach programs and create awareness of the health issues besides informing the community of better approaches to manage the concerns.
References
Lee, G., Pickstone, N., Facultad, J., & Titchener, K. (2017). The Future of Community Nursing: Hospital in the Home. British Journal of Community Nursing, 22(4), 174-180.