Health Promotion

“Health is defined as a state of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO). Like wise health promotion is the process of increasing the functional capacity of all people hence promote the sense of well-being. In order to accomplish this goal all health care professionals have to work hard by submitting themselves to their patients and community as a whole. Thus globalize health promotion should be the ultimate mission for all health care team, especially for nurses. Nurses are the first level health care team therefore nurses should play as a role model to all human beings. They should hold various positions in order to achieve optimum results. In this evolving health industry health promotion is a complex action hence all health care professionals should try to overcome the possible challenges.

Health Promotion definition:

“ Health promotion is defined as the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health” (World Health Organization,n.d.). In order to achieve this goal every individual needs to actively participate in their daily care by changing necessary behavior and or applying current knowledge and theories. Health promotion have evolved since decades, hence it is not aimed for only one community or a nation, but for whole world thus it is a globalize action. Among all health care professionals, nurses play the pivotal role by providing evidence-based research and practice. Therefore it is one of the biggest challenge among nurses. Valuable health teaching enables the individuals, families and communities to gain strength and healthy ideas to promote or to adopt healthy behaviors. Thus every individual needs to take major ...

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...e health of all people. Nurses hold the sole responsibility to educate, identify, diagnose, treat and reduce morbidity and mortality rate and thus to reduce the health care costs and improve the economy . Health promoting agenda enables the whole nation and or the world to attain high-quality, longer lives, eliminate disparities and promote good health. Multiple approaches are essential to provide appropriate educations, assessments, implementations and evaluations to accomplish this mission.

References:

Creasia, J.L.,& Friberg, E.(2011). Conceptual Foundations The Bridge to professional Nursing practice( 5th ed.). Missouri: Elsevier Mosby

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World Health Organization. (n. d.). About WHO. Retrieved December 21,2007, from http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/