Introduction to Health Promotion and Health Promotion Frameworks (Nursing)

00:00 This presentation is an introduction to Health Promotion and Health Promotion Frameworks.

00:08 Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their own health.

00:15 Health Promotion frameworks, therefore, guide nurses and other health professionals to understand and address factors that contribute to health outcomes.

00:24 Now, here we have George.

00:26 George is a public health nurse, and like all of us he strives to keep his patients and his populations healthy.

00:33 Mostly, we do this through disease prevention or treating diseases, but health promotion is different.

00:38 We're not preventing disease from happening and we're not treating it unless it already happens.

00:42 What we're doing with health promotion is empowering individuals, giving them the tools that they need to take control over their health, giving them the tools they need to improve their health outcomes.

00:55 But in order to do that, George understands that he needs to look beyond the individual.

00:59 We have to look at the community context.

01:02 We have to understand those community level factors that challenge one's ability to take control over their own health.

01:09 And that's where health promotion frameworks come into play.

01:13 Health Promotion frameworks give us structures that we can collect data so we can understand what happens at the individual level.

01:20 We can understand what happens at that community level and then we can develop interventions that meet the specific needs of our patients or our populations.

01:30 There are wide variety of Health Promotion frameworks, but George is planning out the most commonly referenced ones.

01:36 We have the social ecological model, the health belief model, the transtheoretical model, the social cognitive theory, and the theory of plan behavior.

01:47 Now, each of these health promotion frameworks are unique, but they all have the same end goal, to empower individuals to be able to take control over their own health, but these frameworks get us there in a different path.

02:00 I recorded a video for each of the Health Promotion frameworks.

02:04 I encourage you to listen to all 5 videos and start to take note of the similarities and the differences between them.

02:11 Also, start to consider when George may choose to use one of them over the other.