Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING CARE

Health Promotion in Nursing Care
Anil Jacob
Grand Canyon University: NRS 429 V
06-04-2012

Assessment of Literature
Megan A Sticher, Christine B. Smith, & Susan Davidson (2008) published a journel in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners with the title of “Reducing heart disease through the vegetarian diet using primary prevention”. This journal’s primary focus was on the vegetarian nutritional regime’s advantages, usefulness for the prevention of cardiac problems. They established in this study that a vigilantly measured vegan nutritional regime along with sufficient supplements of appropriate measures of essential minerals and vitamins could be effectual preventing the cardiac diseases. To add to the advantage, they also found that the vegetarian diet is economically affordable, safe and easily executable when compared to the non vegetarian regime.
Sandra Mangiapane, Reinhard Busse (2011) conducted a research with the title of “Prescription prevalence and treatment persistence of secondary prevention after Myocardial Infarction”. This study was conducted on the patients who had an Acute Myocardial Infarction by the looking into the data of the patients who were discharged with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction between 2001 and 2006. Outcome was scrutinized with endurance study that illustrated the fact that out of 30028 patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction, 82% were originally given a beta-blocker while 73% were given a statin, 69% of them given ACE inhibitors, 66% received aspirin and 61% got clopidogrel. After the five years, out of the 66% of the people initially given aspirin, 10% of them were continued to take it. A comparable decline was observed for the other drugs too. And so the researchers came into the conclusion that treatment perseverance with suggested medications post Acute Myocardial Infarction remains with lots of room for the progress with patient education beginning right afterward the infarction, due to the fact that the most decline in medication compliance occurs within a year post Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Viroj Wiwanitkit, who is from the faculty of medicine of the Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok, Thailand made a literature analysis on the principal vaccines utilized in the function of means for the tertiary deterrence for oncology clients by means of electronic searches for the main word like “Vaccine” and “cancer” in PubMed for addition of the formerly available journals. This research established the fact that the five principal vaccinations like Pneumococcal Vaccinations, Influenza Vaccinations, Homophiles influenza Type B Vaccinations, Rabies vaccinations and Meningococcal Vaccinations are efficient for the prevention of a number of ailments. On the other hand, due to the fact that, the cancer patients did not build up a fine immune reaction despite the vaccinations, it was concluded that more studies were necessary.
Description of Health promotion
Health promotion allows the persons for leading a life that is productive independently, in a social context, psychologically, morally and cost-effectively. Health Promotion and illness deterrence are said to be the fundamental concentration of the current health care system. Health Promotion could be described as a sequence of actions which raises the universal individual healthiness.
As per O’Donnell M.P. (2009) the definition of the health promotion is “an art and science of helping people discover the synergies between their core passions and optimal health, enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal health, and supporting them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. Optimal health is a dynamic balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual health. Life style change can be facilitated through a combination of learning experiences that enhance awareness, increase motivation and build skills and