Purdue University Reduce Suicide Attempts by Adolescents Discussion

Choosing Your Topic

Weekly Objectives 1, 3, and 4 are addressed in this discussion.

The major project in this course involves teaching a small group of community members about a health topic that is classified as primary or secondary prevention. Primary prevention precedes disease and may involve lifestyle changes, immunizations, hand washing, sleep hygiene, or diet/exercise changes. Secondary prevention involves screening and identifying individuals in the early stages of the disease. The role of the nurse in secondary prevention is offering health information intended to limit disability identified diseases, such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, asthma, or osteoporosis. Your academic coach or faculty will tell you if your topic is approved.

Note: You will not be able to proceed with Week 1 Assignment 2 until your topic has been approved.

In your initial post:

• Name the primary or secondary health promotion topic you will be teaching.
• Describe the Healthy People 2020 objective your topic addresses.
• Name the community group for whom you would like to present the health topic.

In your response post:

Respond to two classmates, addressing the following:

• Whether the health topic they chose is primary or secondary prevention.
• The most important message the audience should learn about the topic.oo