Health Promotion and Community Resource Teaching Project

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

It is important to promote the professional role of the nurse to provide health promotion and disease preventive care. Collaborating with other health care professionals and consumer groups in the community in redesigning health care can help meet the goals for Healthy People 2020.

Refer to http://www.healthypeople.gov/ to open the Healthy People 2020 home page.

1. Select      the”Topics & Objectives” tab to access the 2020 Topics &      Objectives – Objectives A-Z page.
2. Select      one of the Healthy People “Topic Areas” for improving health.
3. Submit      the proposed area to the instructor for approval. No group may work on the      same focus area as another group.

Develop a PowerPoint presentation (15-20 slides) with accompanying speaker’s notes and citations.

For help designing PowerPoint slides, refer to the “Create Your First Presentation” PowerPoint tutorial, located on the Microsoft website:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-your-first-presentation-ac88d138-a7a0-402c-b5a5-812641e59c8e?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

In the presentation, address the following:

1. State      the objective of the presentation.
2. State      the Healthy People 2020 focus area your group has selected and the      rationale for selection of the specific focus area.
3. Explain      how the focus area relates to the individual, the family, and the      community, as well as to all age groups throughout the life span.
4. Identify      ways to enhance or optimize health in the selected focus area using      evidence-based research. A minimum of three peer-reviewed articles must be      utilized.
5. Address      the health disparity among different segments of the population for the      selected focus area.
6. Provide      a brief description of at least two community resources and at least two      website resources for professionals and clients.
7. Provide      a brief profile of at least one health-related organization for the      selected focus area.

APA format is required for essays only. Solid academic writing is always expected. For all assignment delivery options, documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

Health education comprises consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.

Health education is not only concerned with the communication of information, but also with fostering the motivation, skills and confidence (self-efficacy) necessary to take action to improve health. Health education includes the communication of information concerning the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions impacting on health, as well as individual risk factors and risk behaviours, and use of the health care system. Thus, health education may involve the communication of information, and development of skills which demonstrates the political feasibility and organizational possibilities of various forms of action to address social, economic and environmental determinants of health. In the past, health education was used as a term to encompass a wider range of actions including social mobilization and advocacy. These methods are now encompassed in the term health promotion, and a more narrow definition of health education is proposed here to emphasize the distinction.

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.

Health promotion represents a comprehensive social and political process, it not only embraces actions directed at strengthening the skills and capabilities of individuals, but also action directed towards changing social, environmental and economic conditions so as to alleviate their impact on public and individual health. Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health. Participation is essential to sustain health promotion action.

The Ottawa Charter identifies three basic strategies for health promotion. These are advocacy for health to create the essential conditions for health indicated above; enabling all people to achieve their full health potential; and mediating between the different interests in society in the pursuit of health. These strategies are supported by five priority action areas as outlined in the Ottawa Charter for health promotion:

• • Build healthy public policy
  • Create supportive environments for health
  • Strengthen community action for health
  • Develop personal skills, and
  • Re-orient health services