The national campaign which I have chosen, and demonstrate the stages of change model is the Change4Life campaign. This is a campaign is promoted by the NHS and aims to get people to develop and maintain healthy lifestyles. It does this by promoting loads of different ways in which people can change their lifestyle, and provides loads of information about the effects of a non-healthy and healthy lifestyle. With this campaign, loads of people can get involved in many different ways. I think that this campaign uses the stages of change model because it helps promote the different stages, and provides the relevant recourses for each stage to happen.
I know as a future health and physical education teacher, this is an extremely valuable insight to have. For me the key to everything I want to teach my students is based on personal values and ideas about individual health and fitness. I do truly believe that if having a healthy mind and body wasn’t important to me, I would never be successful in relaying that concept to my students. I also know that as educators, we need to keep in mind that each of our students are individuals and we cannot expect them to find value in all of our teachings. However, keeping that in mind, if we are creative in helping them to discover said values, they will have better chance of learning to appreciate them.
Health & Social Care NVQ Level 3 Unit HSC 3001 Outcome 1: Understand factors affecting awareness-raising activities about health issues: 1. It is necessary to raise awareness of health issues and especially as a Support worker we should know that it is very important to have informed Individuals because being healthy means that they have a better quality of life. Being aware of health implications is essential in a care setting as well as in the community, also reflecting on your own health and the benefits from living in a healthy environment. We should always remember that with health issues there are lot of factors that must be considered, for example: it does not mean if we eat a lot of nutrients food we can consider ourselves healthy. Having nutrients in food is just a small fraction of what it takes to be healthy which need to be considered.
Mid-Columbia’s mission is to lead and act as a catalyst in promoting health for all people. They want to recognize the individual as a whole human being with different needs and to communicate a vision of health and education to upgrade the quality of life in the community environment. They believe it is important to empower people to become partners in their own healthcare. Mid-Columbia’s commitment to meet or exceed expectations of patients and to create an exceptional experience, results in industry leading levels of patient satisfaction (MCMC,
Contribute to raising awareness of health Task 1 1.1 Reasons why it may be necessary to raise awareness of health issues: Raising awareness of health issues increases the chance of issues being detected in the early stages, it educates people about the issues, how to diagnose them and how to treat them, and the healthier people are the less likely they are to have health issues. 1.2 The roles of agencies and others who may be involved in raising awareness of health issues: Community nurses and doctors will promote awareness of illness and lifestyle choices that may affect your health, the government and local councils will have policy’s and legislation about what must be done about health care. Be up to date on infection control and cross
Their training is related to evidence based research practice. They focus on health promotion to help prevent disease and illness. This knowledge enhances the student’s professional development, such as being case managers, quality assurance nurses, or unit directors. The education also allows the graduate to have a better understanding of the many socioeconomic issues and their effect on patients and healthcare (Johnston,
This allows the patient to have a more active say in their health care and the tools to help improve their own health situation. Health care providers have noticed the value of engaging patients to have more said in their health care. Health care providers have noticed that by managing health care plans will streamline services and cut cost and shortened hospital stays and show patients and their families how to provide care for themselves. By using electronic communication it allows for more interaction, between consumers, business, it allows for two way communication. This allows a new way of thinking on advertising and a new way of handling public relations.
Contribute to raising awareness of health Task 1 1.1 Reasons why it may be necessary to raise awareness of health issues: Raising awareness of health issues increases the chance of issues being detected in the early stages, it educates people about the issues, how to diagnose them and how to treat them, and the healthier people are the less likely they are to have health issues. 1.2 The roles of agencies and others who may be involved in raising awareness of health issues: Community nurses and doctors will promote awareness of illness and lifestyle choices that may affect your health, the government and local councils will have policy’s and legislation about what must be done about health care. Be up to date on infection control and cross contamination procedures. 1.3 Factors to consider when planning awareness raising activities: As a care worker we should know that raising awareness activities need to be creative. Campaigns are competing for mental space of an audience that is bombarded with many other ideas and messages.
It set out the key principles for supporting the public to make healthier and informed choices regarding their health. It also provided information and practical support to get everyone motivated and to try and improve emotional wellbeing. The paper set out guidelines to help all agencies that are necessary to improve the overall health of the population. The Choosing Health highlighted six key principles, tackling health inequalities, reducing the number of people who smoke, tacking obesity, improving sexual health, improving mental health and wellbeing, reducing harm and encouraging sensible drinking
Everyone should look at health the same way, if you know your body needs certain things to remain healthy then take better control of yourself like maintaining preventative health care. If you are not sure how to do that then go out and get an education that will give you more knowledge to take better