This week we have been thinking about the meaning of the term health promotion and the role of the WHO in promoting a global movement towards health. Health promotion involves …
Now that you have explored the definitions of health promotion, let us take a look at how health promotion can be implemented in practice. Listen to Pauline talk about the …
As a useful starting point to the week, watch the video and listen to what some nurses have to say about health promotion in their practice. Reflect on the idea …
Another consideration for public health practice is that it is not fixed. Watch the video in which Pauline describes Hanlon’s concept of ‘waves’ of public health activity and the need …
In this step, we will explore a model of the social determinants of health, review how this model of the social determinants of health can impact on your practice, and …
Watch the video in which Peter Zeh, Senior Practice Diabetes Nurse, Helen Pickard, Consultant Nurse – Acute Medicine, Dee Power, Nurse Consultant Public Health England and Michael Nevill, Director of …
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What was good or useful, during this course, in expanding your understanding of public health and what being involved in public health may mean for your nursing practice? What questions …
Central to an ethical approach to health promotion are issues of control and power. For example, have you ever considered whether your health-promoting practice is ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’? …
Having explored the concept of health promotion and the role of the nurse as a health promoter, we consider in this section the importance of values in health promotion and …
Having considered what we mean by advocacy, enablement and mediation, we now go on to consider how we might apply all three approaches in practice with a case study. Your …
Health promotion is a diverse area of practice directed at individuals, communities and whole populations. The WHO has played a key role in influencing a broad health-promoting agenda that goes …
In the previous step we identified how the five levels of action of the Ottawa Charter are underpinned by advocacy, enablement and mediation, which we will now go on to …
Health promotion and public health both require health professionals to think about wider issues than just the patient or client in front of them, but have you ever stopped and …
In this step we’ll start to think about what can be done to address individual country health concerns and what this means for your practice both now and in the …