Health promotion and maintenance

This presentation contains :-
1.Health promotion and maintenance
2. Introduction to health promotion and maintenance
3. Definition of health promotion
4. To promote health concepts
5. Proper nutrition
6. Healthy environment
7. Good health habits
8. Health examination and screening
9. Early diagnosis and treatment
10. Accidents
11. Immunization
12. Health education
13. Socio economic factors that affect health
14. Records in health promotion

1. Health Promotion and Maintenance Presented By – Atul Yadav (RN,RM)

2. Health promotion is not directed against any particular disease, but is intended to strengthen the host through a variety of approaches (interventions). Introduction

3. Health promotion is "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve health " Definition Health promotion:-

4. 1. Proper nutrition:- Adequate nutrition is the foundation of good health. The nutritional needs of such vulnerable groups as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women and the elderly must be met. Special attention must be given of breast-feeding ,to promotion appropriate weaning practices with the use of local foods. Special nutrition programmes may be launched in the community for the prevention of anaemia, control of vitamin A deficiency, iodine-deficiency disorders and prevention of other nutritional disorders in the community. Nutrition education must be promoted using TV communication methods. Proper nutrition is considered today as an essential ingredient of quality of life. To promote health it includes:-

5. A healthy environment – personal and environmental hygiene - is crucial for the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Several diseases are due to poor personal hygiene - e.g., skin diseases, trachoma, leprosy and conjunctivitis; and diseases due to f or many environmental more are hygiene contamination of water, food or soil. 2. Healthy environment

6. Health is in a large measure the result of many good habits and practices, which are now included in the term life style. The use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs has increased tremendously over the past few decades throughout the world. Cigarette smoking has become a major health problem world wide. There are numerous other habits related to eating, sleeping, physical exercise, cleanliness and recreation. People must assume responsibility for their cultivating good habits. Health cannot be given by one person to another. 3. Good Health H abits

7. An important aspect of health maintenance is regular surveillance of blood pressure, tolerance, electrocardiogram, pulmonary function, glucose blood cholesterol, haemoglobin, protein uria and other parameters indicative of health status. 4. Health examination and screening

8. Reporting promptly when sick, undergoing necessary investigations and the indicated treatment goes a long way in the maintenance of health. This is referred as personal health care which is concerned with the care and treatment of individuals. The focus is on the patient's complaints. 5. Early diagnosis and treatment

9. Accidents rank among the five leading causes of death in the world. For every death recorded, several hundred injury cases occur. Accident rate is very high in India. Prevention of accidents is an important health promotional measure. 6. Accidents

10. The resistance of susceptible individuals to certain bacterial and viral infections can be artificially enhanced by immunization. There is a wide range of immunization procedures to protect the health of the individual and community. Some immunizations are given as routine during infancy (e.g., polio, diphtheria) with periodic boosters. 7. Immunization

11. The aim of health education is to help people achieve health by their own actions and efforts. 8. Health education

12. Illness and for that matter health and socio-economic conditions go together. The socio-economic status is reflected by the level of education, per capita income, family size, birth rate, population growth rate and the cultural practices prevalent in the community. These are in fact the root causes of disease in developing countries. Unless socio-economic development takes place, the standard of living and thereby the health status cannot improve. 9. Socio-economic factors

13. It is important to keep record of all health events, e.g., medical consultations, hospitalization, received, sickness episodes, investigations, immunizations, height, weight, etc. These records can be useful in follow-up of cases, assessment of the health status of the population, morbidity and mortality studies and in medical and nursing research. 10. Records