Diabetic Education and Control Health Promotion

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Nursing Budget Diabetic education and control health promotion Introduction Health promotion is a term often not clearly distinguished from terms such as health education, disease prevention or health empowerment. Disease prevention in the health promotion is defined as measures which not only prevent the occurrence of diseases, like risk factor reduction, but also prevent the progress of the disease and reduce its consequences once established. The scope of health education consists of consciously constructed opportunities for learning (Clark, 2013). This involves some form of the communication designated in the improvement of health literacy, including the development of life skills and improving knowledge which is conducive to the community and individual health. On the other hand, empowerment refers to the process making sure people improve and control their health (Piper, 2009). Health promotion program is mainly a strategy of prevention. There are three prevention strategies, i.e. primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention. Primary prevention involves reducing risk factors, which result from injury and illness. It maintains health lifestyles to achieve the well being level. For the secondary prevention, it involves early screening of diseases for early intervention and treatments before the appearing of the symptoms. Some of these are mammograms and blood pressure screening (Mason, Leavitt & Chaffee, 2011). This process of screening can minimize the disabling effect on the lives of individuals and further diseases complications. The delayed detection and diagnosis of disease is very expensive in the intervention. Tertiary prevention is vital because it helps people to attain a functional level by suing designed rehabilitation, to minimize handicapping effects and disease injury. For this prevention, nurses ensure that

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