Question

Why is the concept of family health important? Consider the various strategies for health promotion. How does a nurse determine which strategy would best enable the targeted individuals to gain more control over, and improve, their health?

Answer 1

Family is a place where one starts and ends his day and life.The concept of family health is important to balance the positive and negative aspects of health, to assess any problems and find a solution and prevent it in the future,identifies the strength and weakness of the family,having emotional and economical support during crisis increases the overall health of the family .

Various strategies for health promotion are as following

• Health education: This enables creating awareness , preventing and managing health issues
• Health communication :Communication plays a vital role to make things reach up to the end Destiny.It can be done via health campaigns, meeting,mass media ,magazines
• Advocacy:This creates health awareness through mass mefia,multimedia, political meetings, Community mobilisation .Health professionals plays a vital role her (e.g.,Community Health Nurse)

An individual can gain control improve health with the help of Health Education Strategy because this makes them to have complete knowledge about the disease and its treatment. Identify any major outbreak and implement preventive techniques with the help of health education,Here each individual forms self responsible to stay fit and lead a healthy life without illness .