Florida National University Family Health Concept and Health Promotion Discussion

Family health concept

The health and wellness of individuals always begin from the family. The execution of health activities, roles, and responsibilities occur at home. Family health is significant to the family members because when one individual is sick, all family members are affected. Family history and genetics influence an individual’s health status because there are hereditary diseases that affect the family members, such as sickle cell disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases (Green, 2018). Understanding the family health concept and family history is essential in identifying the health risks that increase individuals’ potential for developing certain illnesses such as hypertension.

Health promotion is an effective public health strategy for ensuring healthy people within the family and community at large. Health promotion measures such as educating the family, screening, conducting health campaigns, and developing health awareness programs help build family capacity and enhance behavior modification and environment modification (Whitney, 2018). Providing health information helps improve the health outcome of the family members through health behaviors such as physical exercise, healthy eating, and avoiding a sedentary lifestyle. Apart from enhancing health behavior modification, family education helps improve health-seeking behaviors and self-care activities, which further help prevent diseases.

A nurse can determine the effectiveness of a strategy in meeting the needs of a particular family through family and patient assessment to identify the needs of the family. Assessing individuals’ needs entails effective interaction and communication with people to help in understanding the unique needs of the person and the family (Green, 2018). The nurse should identify the available family resources that can be used to achieve health and wellness among the family members.

References

Green, S.Z. (2018). Understanding families and health promotion. In Grand Canyon University?(Ed.),?Health promotion: Health & wellness across the continuum. Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs429vn/health-promotion-health-and-wellness-across-the-continuum/v1.1/#/chapter/1

Whitney, S., (2018), Health promotion Health and wellness Across the Continuum Retrieved from https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2018/health-promotion_health-and-wellness-across-the-continuum_1e.php