Health Promotion and Illness Management

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In this assignment, you will be conducting an informal health assessment of yourself, your immediate family, and community to develop a health promotion plan for your family. The final submission will include three parts: 1. Family Portrait (1–2 pages), 2. Community Portrait (1–2 pages), 3. Health Promotion Plan (5–7 pages).

Preparation Step 1: Family Health Portrait

Tasks:

Using the My Family Health Portrait website <https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/fhh-web/home.action>, conduct an assessment of yourself and your immediate family.

In a 1- to 2-page report:

  • Summarize the findings of both your assessment and your immediate family.
  • Identify positive health habits you or your family currently practice.
  • Identify health risk factors (stress, lack of exercise, poor or inadequate nutrition, smoking, obesity, etc.) in yourself and family members.

Preparation Step 2: Community Health Portrait

Tasks:

Conduct a “windshield survey” in which you drive through your community and assess and record the following characteristics and resources:

  • schools
  • health care
  • social or human service agencies
  • types of transportation
  • types and condition of housing
  • recreation facilities
  • ethnicities and religions
  • shopping
  • restaurants/bars

In a 1- to 2-page report:

  • Summarize the findings of your community assessment.
  • Identify health support resources provided in your community.
  • Identify health risk factors in your community.

Preparation Step 3: Health Promotion Plan for Family

Tasks:

Based on the information gathered in your individual, family, and community assessments and from scholarly resources, develop a health promotion plan for your family.

In a 5- to 7-page plan:

  • Summarize family health portrait including the strengths and risk factors.
  • Summarize community health portrait including the strengths and risk factors.
  • Identify at least three desired personal behavioral and health outcomes.
  • Identify at least two desired family health goals.
  • Recommend specific strategies for realistically achieving identified health goals. Explain how appropriate community resources can be utilized and how those goals will be met.
  • Explain how, if implemented, these goals will benefit you, your current family, and future generations.

At the end of your plan, attach these three parts: 1. Family Portrait (1–2 pages), 2. Community Portrait (1–2 pages), 3. Health Promotion Plan (5–7 pages).

Submission Details:

  • By the due date assigned, post your responses to the Submissions Area. Support your findings with examples and scholarly references. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

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Health Promotion and Illness Management
The informal health assessment is not an end in itself, but a way of using public health
programs and unique plan healthcare in the future. This article will, therefore, conduct an
informal health assessment of individuals, families, community, to develop a family’s health
promotional plan
According to Nardi & Petr (2002), community health need assessment is a
developmental process, which is added and amended over a specific period. Health assessment
involves several methods which include: profiling, deciding the priorities about appropriate
actions, planning, implementing the planned activities and evaluating health outcomes.
Individual informal health assessment
Individual informal health assessment includes personal characters which influence
individual behavior such as personal traits, knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes, which provides
structured activities, and events over a particular period. Individual informal health assessment
emphasizes on assisting the public to make an informed decision regarding their health, thus
promoting environmental, control, structural and parliamentary transformation in government.
When conducting an individual informal health assessment, I can center on psychological
remedies, after the inception of disease, to advance my treatment and adhere to medical
outcomes. Moreover, I can conduct a health screening for high blood pressure, hearing loss,
foot problem, and challenges with activities of daily living. The screening aims at identifying
significant findings so that I can be referred to an appropriate health service provider on time
(William, 2015).

Informal health assessment of immediate family

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An informal health assessment on immediate family involves identifying the family’s
exclusive background with a dominant lasting relationship, which assumes different stages and
organization, which goes away from persons involved ( Synatschk et al., 2007). According to
Slater & Finck (2012), family affiliate’s forms a mutual communal truth related to health; thus
the environment facilitates the management of various diseases. Informal family health
assessment involves ascertaining the secure and close supportive personal relationship, which
helps the family member regulate their emotional distress, about the effects of particular
diseases. However, conflicted family relationships can interfere with emotional regulations
during the assessment.
Informal health assessment of the community
Informal health assessment of the community involves describing the societal problem
accurately, to help an individual identify who is affected most by the problem, and where the
problem occurs frequently. One can conduct an informal health assessment on the community,
to ascertain how the society perceives the issue of violence, health problems such as smoking,
and stress. One can also select intended participants to obtain information about the
community, which may guide an individual’s decision about whom to target, depending on the
problem in the community. These groups may comprise the general population of adolescent
and children, or adolescents and high-risk children (O'Carroll & Park, 2007).
Summary of the findings of the individual assessment and immediate family
According to my health assessment, I was diagnosed at my adolescent stage and found
with high cholesterol. My brother was also diagnosed at his teenage stage and was found with
a high blood pressure condition. My father suffers from type 1 diabetes, while my mother
suffers from asthma.

HEALTH PROMOTION

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Individual and family positive health habits, currently practiced
After the health assessment, the health officer recommended a positive health habit
based on diet supplement, physi...


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