Assignment: Health Initiatives

Assignment: Health Initiatives

Assignment: Health Initiatives

Week 3 discussion Respond to one of the following questions: Review Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives. Choose one disease process and discuss the disease process, the goal of Healthy People 2020, and how the CDC plays a role in meeting the goal. Search the South University Online Library for caregiver role strain. What is the most important factor that causes caregiver role strain? What can be done to prevent it? Citations should conform to APA guidelines. You may use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources or connect to the APA Style website through the APA icon below.

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.

Health promotion is a set of actions to foster good health and wellbeing. It is not ‘promotion’ as in the sense of the word usually understood. Telling people how to look after their health is just one part of health promotion.

Health promotion involves action:

• to inform people of what they could do to stay healthy
• to address the things in the community that influence health and wellbeing the most, so that these can be supported.

Health promotion activities are geared toward promoting health and preventing ill-health rather than focusing on people at risk for specific diseases.

Health promotion:

• Enables people to increase control over and improve their health
• Involves the population as a whole in the context of their everyday lives
• Activities are geared toward promoting health and preventing ill-health rather than focusing on people at risk for specific diseases.