Chronic diseases, health and medicine homework help

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Chronic diseases such as “coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and asthma are the nation’s leading cause of illness and death” (Jonas & Kovner, 2015, p. 120). These diseases pose serious burdens on the health systems and on society. Changing these figures will require that we engage patients, families, communities, and providers in order to impact behavior and health. According to Jonas & Kovner (2015) changing health-related behavior and provider-related behavior represents a prime target for improving national health goals and healthcare” (p. 142). Nursing needs to be engaged in helping to reduce the incidence of chronic diseases and illnesses.

If you were designing a mix of interventions to improve national health goals, what one behavior-related intervention and one provider-related intervention (described in the text-book) would you choose and explain your rationale(s) for choosing each. Describe what the impact or outcome of these interventions would be.

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According to Jonas & Kovner, (2015) chronic diseases are leading causes of illness and
death in the United States. Most of these diseases are associated with various unhealthy
behaviors Characterized by individuals engaging in risky behaviors. Coronary heart disease, like
type 2 diabetes, stroke and some cancers are among ten deadly diseases related to unhealthy diet.
These facts call for a mix of interventions aimed at improving the health of the nation.
Personal-level interventions target the individuals who possess behavioral risk factors
(Jonas & Kovner, 2015). This choice of behavioral intervention is informed by the fact that the
national health starts with individual health because the nation is a collection of individuals. The
emphasis in the counseling s...


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