Week 6 Assignment 1: Population-Specific Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Paper – Rough Draft Sections 1–3 Required, 1–4 Encouraged
Week 10 Assignment: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Population-Specific Final Paper Submission
Overview
During this assignment, you will be asked to discuss the concepts of health promotion and disease prevention, relating this information to the role of the APRN and applying it to the vulnerable population you selected during Week 1. In Week 6, you submitted a rough draft of your paper and received feedback from faculty, so please make sure you incorporate those comments along with direction you received from SmartThinking, Pearson Writing Center, and the Library.
1. Section 1 (Content can be found in Week 1)
a. Introduction
i. WHO’s definition of health
ii. Concepts of health, health promotion, and behavior change options
iii. Vulnerable individuals and populations
b. Historical Perspectives of Health
c. Healthy People Initiative – overall summary of the initiative
d. Levels of Prevention
i. Primordial
ii. Primary
iii. Secondary
iv. Tertiary
v. Quaternary
e. The role of nursing, specifically APRNs, in health promotion and disease prevention
2. Section 2 (Content can be found in Week 2 and 3)
a. Vulnerability as a concept
b. Health disparities
c. Cultural competency as a provider
d. Defining resilience and applying to the vulnerable
e. Advocacy role as a provider
f. Vulnerable people, groups, populations, and societal views: Sinner versus victim (Mechanic and Tanner, 2005)
3. Section 3 (Content can be found in Week 2 through 4. Don’t forget to use the media/website/video links, as they will provide a lot of great information). Focus on your specific vulnerable population group
a. Introduce your vulnerable population: sinner or victim?
b. Social justice related to your population
c. Low literacy within your population and how this affects their health
d. Evaluate your vulnerable population related to current Healthy People Initiative guidelines.
e. Discuss one primary health concern for your population and include the preventive guideline related to this concern and how you might motivate this group to make behavioral changes.
f. Discuss use of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) with your vulnerable population – pros and cons. How can community-level plans/interventions influence individual and family health?
g. Discuss what resources are available within your community for your specific population and vulnerable populations in general.
4. Section 4
a. The conclusion of your paper should bring all your information together.
b. Discuss an approach for improving health literacy within your population
c. Discuss how, as an APRN, you can impact vulnerable individuals in your community.
d. Conclude with a summary of how we as a nation are doing with health promotion and disease prevention.
