Part A

Health education\health promotion project Plan

 

Word Count: approximately 2000 words

(reference does not contribute to word count)

Use 11 or 12pt font either calibri or arial preferred.

Reference list at end of document using APA style 6^th edition , with at least 9-10 references used including research articles.

Headings are okay to use.

 

Importantly, this encourages you to identify that any form of health education or promotion should be designed to meet the needs of the target group and involve some form of community consultation to ascertain the need and acceptance of the health promotion.

 

 Assignment Criteria:

Choose one of the following target group areas and a health focus area from the table below (for example target group youth, focus area suicide)

*Target group	Health issue
Children (primary school age)	Obesity, oral disease
Youth/teenagers (middle/upper school age)	Obesity, suicide, alcohol use
Prisoners	Mental health, illicit drug use
People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI)	Sexual health, mental health
Older people	Vision impairment, oral disease
*Be specific about your target group in your project: actual age/s, gender/s, location

 

Prepare a detailed and innovative health promotion project plan for your chosen target group and health issue in an Australian community(Indigenous or non-Indigenous). This needs to be your innovative idea, not reused from a current or past health promotion project.  Make sure you follow the outlined 8 assessment criteria.

 

The health promotion project plan should be in the form of one of the following:

• Education on risk factor awareness and/or prevention
• Health management (such as how to manage hypertension to prevent stroke)

Your health promotion plan should address the following criteria:

1. A description of your specific target group and community(for example Children (5-11years) not meeting physical activity recommendations in Palmerston Primary School or adult males (indigenous and/or non-indigenous) who are obese aged 50 years or above in Bendigo, nursing students in WA). This contributes to making your health promotion innovative and focussed.
2. A detailed outline of why this public health promotion is beneficial for your target group. For example how you anticipate it will improve health outcomes for the chosen target group/community. Include health data/statistics to back up this as a health concern, such as burden of disease.
3. A description of what your goals/ aims for your health promotion are and what the health promotion project is aiming to achieve(review the SMART mnemonic on page 215 of the text set Fleming & Parker, 2015 Introduction to Public Health, 3E).
4. You should identify which of the Public Health Promotion Management Perspectivesthis falls into and briefly outline why it falls into this category (Public Health Promotion Management Perspectives are classified as primary, secondary or tertiary- to find out more about this refer to page 316 of Fleming & Parker, 2015 Introduction to Public Health, 3E)
5. Identify who the additional stakeholders will be for the project, and what community consultationwill take place. Include specific information on who this health promotion project will need to include and why.
6. Present a specific and original health message/ logo that youhave developed to suit your health promotion (for example: Your smoking harms othersor If you can play you can play).  Make sure this would be appropriate for your target group.
7. Provide a detailed outline of what the health promotion activity will entail and how youwill promote this to the target group. Look at other health promotion activities for ideas such as the Breast Cancer Mother’s Day Classic Fun Run or the posters you see around the community.  Consider what sort of resources will work to get the message out to your target group such as newspapers, sports event, school visit, radio- what will work for your target audience)
8. An outline of how you plan to evaluate the success of your health promotion.  Evaluation is an important step, research to find the best way to assess if your health promotion would be successful in achieving its aims/goals.

 

**This is not surgical nursing- it is health promotion aimed at the community level- so please do not focus on pathophysiology.

Any health statistics used for your assignment can be based on the overall Australian population (you may not find data for a specific suburb or target group).

 

 

PART B

 

Pictorial Health Promotion

Word count:5-1000 words depending on type of pictorial submitted

 

The word limit is listed as between 5-1000 words depending on the type of pictorial representation. For example a poster may have very few words and a brochure will have more.

• Include a reference list using APA style, this should include references for text, images or pictures you have used.
• Please note you can submit your reference list as a separate word document to your pictorial if required and you do not have to include references on your pictorial if it will affect the quality of the presentation.

 

 

This assessment provides the opportunity to create a pictorial representing your health promotion project. 

 

Topic: Pictorial representation of the health promotion project plan in Part A

 

Assignment Criteria:

Put together a pictorial representation for your health promotion project outlined in part A. This can be in the form of a poster, flyer, newspaper advertisement, information brochure

Your pictorial should include the health message/logo outlined in your health promotion plan in part A.

Preparation:

• using your public health promotion project conducted in part A and consider what would be visually appealing for your target group or effectively represent your health promotion.
• Prepare either a poster, flyer, newspaper advertisement, information brochure representative of your health promotion. Jpeg, pdf, Power Point, Word

 

 

Pictorial Marking Criteria            

• Pictorial aligns with part A and provides an accurate representation of the health promotion.
• The pictorial is appropriate for the target group identified in part A
• Pictorial presents an original/ innovative community focussed public health promotion prevention or management plan.
• The presentation of the Pictorial demonstrates quality and consideration in design features and visual appeal.

 

                                                                    SAMPLE SOLUTION

Health Education Plan: Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity

Various health concerns affect different population groups differently. In Australia, particular health issues adversely affect the healthcare outcomes in the nation. Primarily, obesity is one of the most significant health concerns affecting individuals of all ages. However, school going children between the ages of 5 and 17 years depict significant vulnerability to this concern. Obese children have a high risk of being obese while in their adulthood. Moreover, their chances of developing various preventable medical conditions are high. Aside increasing the risk of contracting cardiovascular illnesses, childhood obesity should be preventedbecause if it progresses to overweight in adulthood, it increases the risk of various cancer strains such as pancreatic, esophageal, and breast. According to the Department of Health (2017), about 25.8% of Australian children and young people were overweight by 2014. In this regard, those who were obese were 7.5% while 18.4 were overweight. Ideally, the increase in overweight and obesity increases with age as those aged 10 to 14 years had obesity and overweight rate of 37.4%. Furthermore, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2018) estimated that obesity and overweight accounted for 7% of the total burden of injuries and diseases in Australia as of 2011. In this regard, the burden comes about because of linked diseases that emerge when an individual becomes obese. Primarily, the goal of this paper is to provide a healthcare educational plan for preventing and managing childhood obesity in Australia.

Overview

Evidence indicates that incidences of obesity among children is on the rise. The condition is regarded as an undesirable statistic because obesity has both direct and indirect adverse effects on the population. Primarily, there exists evidence linking obesity to various cardiovascular illnesses, which is among the leading causes of death in Australia. Moreover, management of obesity and related conditions amount to significant economic burden for most Australians as well as the economy (AIHW, 2018). According to Kim, Després, and Koh (2016), obesity is not only a public health problem in Australia, but all over the world. Principally, the issue is associated with changing lifestyles especially at the advent of modernity. Therefore, as per Channel (2015), obesity is a non-communicable illness that can be prevented and managed using non-medical approaches. In this regard, being physically active and eating healthy are among the best approaches for managing overweight, especially in school going children. Usually, these factors are referredto as lifestyle changes (Dankel, Loenneke, & Loprinzi, 2015). Obesity management, especially among children, is ideal because it reduces the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses, and chronic kidney. According to the department of health (2017), physical activity should be the leading approach utilized in preventing overweight. In this regard, children aged 5 to 17 should have a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity each day. Primarily, this health promotion focuses on increasing physical activity and diet awareness among school going children with a significant focus in Parramatta, Sydney.