scholarly journals Family-Centered Health Promotion: Perspectives for Engaging Families and Achieving Better Health Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 004695802092353
Author(s):  
Michael D. Barnes ◽  
Carl L Hanson ◽  
Len B. Novilla ◽  
Brianna M. Magnusson ◽  
AliceAnn C. Crandall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Life Course

Communities and populations are comprised of individuals and families who together affect the health of the community. The family unit is an unparalleled player for maintaining health and preventing disease for public health because members may support and nurture one another through life stages. Preliminary research confirms that family-oriented health promotion and disease prevention are promising strategies because the family unit is both a resource and a priority group needing preventative and curative services across the life course. Although there are growing numbers of successful efforts, family health systems are generally underutilized in health promotion practice. This lack of utilization in policy and practice have hampered the collection of robust evidence for family health. This paper purports that families are important actors in public health. Yet, since no one pattern for healthy families is known, public health practitioners can consider six principle-based approaches to legitimately and respectfully advance the families’ innate potential for health promotion and disease prevention. Each perspective aims to foster higher capacity for family health systems to function appropriately in public health practice. Health promotion practitioners and researchers can explore family health perspectives with the potential for systems policy and practice adjustments in public health.

scholarly journals O ENFERMEIRO NA SAÚDE DA FAMÍLIA E A PROMOÇÃO DE SAÚDE E PREVENÇÃO DE DOENÇAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marciana Fernandes Moll ◽  
Natália Nunes Boff ◽  
Priscila Dos Santos Silva ◽  
Tainá Vilhar Siqueira ◽  
Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Health Strategy ◽  
Transversal Study

Objetivo: descrever as ações do enfermeiro para a promoção de saúde e prevenção de doenças. Metodologia: estudo exploratório, descritivo, transversal, de abordagem qualitativa, realizado com 12 enfermeiros das Estratégias de Saúde da Família de uma cidade do Triângulo Mineiro. Os dados foram obtidos por meio de entrevista individual semiestruturada e foram submetidos à Análise Temática. Resultados: as temáticas identificadas foram: visão dos enfermeiros sobre promoção de saúde e estratégias de intervenção; conhecimento dos enfermeiros quanto à prevenção de doenças e intervenções realizadas para esta finalidade. Conclusão: evidenciou-se a confusão de alguns enfermeiros em distinguir promoção de saúde de prevenção de doenças. Além disso, os dados demonstraram que os enfermeiros enfrentam desafios no cotidiano de trabalho que podem acarretar implicações para a prática.Descritores: Enfermagem; Estratégia Saúde da Família; Promoção em saúde; Prevenção.THE FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY NURSE AND HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTIONObjective: To describe nurses´ actions for health promotion and disease prevention. Methodology: Exploratory, descriptive, and transversal study, using a qualitative approach, carried out with 12 nurses from the family health strategies of a city in the state of Minas Gerais. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and were submitted to thematic analysis. Results: The themes identified were: vision of nurses on health promotion and their intervention strategies; Knowledge of nurses regarding the prevention of diseases and the interventions carried out for this purpose. Conclusion: Results showed the confusion of some nurses in distinguishing health promotion and disease prevention. They also face challenges in the daily work that can entail implications for the practice.Descriptors: Nursing, Family Health Strategy, Health Promotion, Prevention.LA ENFERMERA DE LA ESTRATEGIA DE SALUD FAMILIAR Y LA PROMOCIÓN DE LA SALUD Y LA PREVENCIÓN DE LA ENFERMEDADObjetivo: describir las acciones de la enfermera para la promoción de la salud y la prevención de enfermedades. Metodologya: estudio exploratorio, descriptivo, transversal, enfoque cualitativo, realizado con 12 enfermeros de las estrategias de salud familiar de una ciudad del triángulo minero. Los datos se obtuvieron por medio de una entrevista individual semiestructurada y fueron analizados por medio de análisis temático. Resultados: los temas identificados fueron: visión de las enfermeras sobre promoción de la salud y sus estrategias de intervención; El conocimiento de las enfermeras en cuanto a la prevención de enfermedades y las intervenciones llevadas a cabo con este fin. Conclusión: se ha puesto de relieve la confusión de algunas enfermeras en la distinción de la promoción de la salud de la prevención de enfermedades. Enfrentan desafíos en el trabajo diario que resultar en implicaciones para la práctica.Descriptores: Enfermería; Estrategia de Salud Familiar; Promoción de la Salud; Prevención.

scholarly journals Content validation of the Self-perception of Family Health Status scale using the Delphi technique

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 595-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Salvador Lima-Rodríguez ◽  
Marta Lima-Serrano ◽  
Nerea Jiménez-Picón ◽  
Isabel Domínguez-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Family Health ◽  
The Self ◽  
Delphi Panel ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the content validity of the Self-perception of Family Health Status scale. METHOD: A validation study of an instrument with an online Delphi panel using the consensus technique. Eighteen experts in the subject were intentionally selected, with a multidisciplinary origin and representing different professional fields. Each of the proposed items was assessed using a five-point scale, and open-ended questions, to modify or propose items. Descriptive analysis was performed of the sample and the items, applying criteria of validation/elimination. RESULTS: The first round had a response rate of 83.3% and validated 75 of the 96 proposed items; the second had a response rate of 80%, and validated the 21 newly created items, concluding the panel of experts. CONCLUSIONS: We present an instrument to measure self-perception of family health status, from a nursing perspective. This may be an advance in scientific knowledge, to facilitate the assessment of the state of health of the family unit, enabling detection of alterations, and to facilitate interventions to prevent consequences to the family unit and its members. It can be used in clinical care, research or teaching.

National Goals for Supporting Families Across the Life Course

Inclusion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 260-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Reynolds ◽  
George S. Gotto ◽  
Catherine Arnold ◽  
Thomas L. Boehm ◽  
Sandra Magaña ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
The Family ◽  
Support Practices ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract As a core unit of our society, the family provides support for all its members. Due to the nature of their disabilities, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) often receive emotional, physical, and material support from their families across the life course. During the National Goals 2015 Conference, three goals were identified that will lead to a better understanding of families and maximize their capacity, strengths, and unique abilities to support, nurture, and facilitate opportunities for family members who have a disability. The three goals are to (1) develop a better understanding of the complex family structures in the United States and the best practices for supporting them; (2) extend our knowledge on how families are or might be supported by their natural communities, outside the purview of IDD systems; and (3) synthesize support practices, implementation strategies, and outcomes for supporting families. This article describes these three goals related to supporting families across the life course and provides a rationale, areas of research to address the goals, and implications for policy and practice for each goal.

Health, sustainability, and climate change

2013 ◽  
pp. 548-555
Author(s):  
David Pencheon ◽  
Sonia Roschnik ◽  
Paul Cosford
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Good For

This chapter will help you understand the relationships between health, health care, sustainability, climate change, and carbon reduction, locally and globally. The specific objectives of the chapter are to help you make the case for action by showing how health, health care, sustainable development, and climate change are linked positively such that what is good for mitigating climate change is also good for health and health care today, translate science into policy and practice and help move research and action about climate science into policy and practice, and engage a wide range of stakeholders and appreciate that, as in much public health practice, appropriate action comes from involving a diverse group of people through genuine engagement.

scholarly journals Promoting health among the elderly: actions in primary health care

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Ribeiro de Castro ◽  
Eglídia Carla Figueirêdo Vidal ◽  
Ana Raquel Bezerra Saraiva ◽  
Sofia de Moraes Arnaldo ◽  
Ana Maria Machado Borges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Family Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Health Strategy

Abstract Objective: To identify health promotion actions carried out by professionals in the Family Health Strategy in relation to elderly people. Method: An exploratory study with a qualitative approach was performed in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil, with 19 professionals. A recorded, fully transcribed semi-structured interview was used after authorization by the ethics committee under number 501 675. The discussions were analyzed using Content Analysis, organized into thematic categories. Results: Actions of a collective nature were identified, such as activities in groups, meetings, conversation circles, lectures and guidance in the waiting room. Other directed actions were used, such as guidelines during individual consultations and referral to specialized services. Conclusion: The need for the discussion of health promotion and actions in relation to old age was highlighted, with debate and reflection on this theme required locally, along with the need to build a network of support for the health of the elderly in a shared manner among professionals, managers and the community.

scholarly journals Challenges to create an evidence-based programme register in France

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Arwidson ◽  
C Verry-Jolive
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Expert Committee ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Addiction Prevention ◽  
Prevention Interventions

Abstract The majority of health promotion and disease prevention interventions implemented in both targeted and general populations have unknown effectiveness. This contrasts with drug treatments which must be proven effective before they can be prescribed. The recent evaluation of four addiction prevention interventions chosen by public health implementers showed that two had positive impacts on addiction prevention and two had deleterious effects. Despite over 50 years’ worth of scientific literature on the evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention programmes, it is little known and little used by project promoters. These promoters cannot be blamed for not using this literature as it is often difficult to access, to read and to understand. Even if they successfully access and read the articles, interventions are often not described properly, rendering the text useless for implementers. It is therefore necessary to create interfaces that translate this literature into a form useful for funders and project promoters. As a result, Public Health France has studied existing portals in both the United States and in Europe. An independent double-reviewing process comparable to the review process used by scientific journals for manuscripts as in the Norwegian portal was chosen for this reason.An expert committee has worked during more than one year to design and test a scoring grid that will be published soon. The 80+ programme evaluations found in the scientific literature will now be reviewed with the approved grid. Public Health France has also begun visiting each region in France to present the portal to local health authorities and NGOs to enable project promoters to submit their programmes soon and to promote the use of evidence-based or research-based programmes when possible.

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