Influencing Health Behavior

Influencing Health Behavior
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Influencing Health Behavior
Community health nurses play a significant role in ensuring that health practices are promoted in various societies. They provide that all the activities undertaken by the communities are geared towards forming a more informed and healthier society (Clark, 2015). Community nurses ensure that all members of the society are aware of all types of diseases that commonly affect the community. Therefore, it is their role to ensure that all members of the society are aware of the risks and prevention measures of a disease such as tuberculosis. For instance, the nurses can highlight the prevention measures of tuberculosis which include vaccinations, chemotherapy and further prevention of its mortality and morbidity. These include the primary, secondary and tertiary mitigation measures respectively.
Community nurses can use an active health promotion plan that increases awareness of the diseases by promoting health and disease prevention. The dynamic health promotion model is ideal for it ensures that people in a geriatric population are positively influenced through strategic healthy lifestyles. The health promotion model which was initially postulated by Nola Pender is an example of a health model (Linsley, Kane & Owen, 2011). The model approach promotes positive health by increasing the society’s knowledge on diseases. The model is ideal for a population since it has a multi-faceted approach that ensures the communities can efficiently practice healthy lifestyles within the constraints if their environment.

The health promotion model approach is based on the ideology that every person has a unique personality that can be used to champion and enhance their ability to live a healthier life. Therefore, through a health promotion model, community health nurses can influence healthy lifestyles for diverse societies.

References
Clark, M. (2015). Population and community health nursing (6th Ed.). Prentice Hall.
Linsley, P., Kane, R., & Owen, S. (2011). Public health and the nursing role. Oxford: Oxford University Press.