Question

Why is the concept of family health important? Consider the various strategies for health promotion. How does a nurse determine which strategy would best enable the targeted individuals to gain more control over, and improve, their health?

Answer 1

Concept of family health is important for early detection and prevention of diseases.There are many genetical,environmental,ethnical and racial diseases run in families which can be early detected and prevented with health promotion strategies.

Various stratergies of health promotion

• Health communication by identifying the population at risk ,with symptoms,with known disorder and promote healthy lifesyle,communication strategies such as social marketing through media stratergies,increasing the availabilty of community resourses to change populations knowlege should be implemented.health services accessable for targeted clients.
• Health education- Identify the target population,provide education on healthy lifestyle,early detection and care,prevention of risk factors,local resources available if in need
• Environmental change- Changing to healthy supportive environment such as healthy food,smoke free zone to promote healthy outcome    Nurses can identify the stratergy and targeted population by the nursing process steps such as assessment,planning,implementation and Evaluation.