Physical or Emotional Disability: Teaching Strategy
Adapt information to accommodate the person’s cognitive,
perceptual, and behavior disabilities.
Give clear written and oral information.
Highlight significant information for easy reference.
Avoid medical terminology. Read More »
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Health promotion is a concept and a process that extends throughout the life span. Studies have shown that the health of a child can be affected either positively or negatively by the health practices of the mother during the prenatal period. Therefore, health promotion starts before birth and extends through childhood, adulthood, and old age. Read More »
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Certain principles underlie the concept of health promotion as an active process: self-responsibility, nutritional awareness, stress reduction and management, and physical fitness. Read More »
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Interventions for alterations in health and wellness vary among cultures. Interventions most commonly used in the United States have been labeled as conventional medicine by the National
Institutes of Health (n.d.). Other names for conventional medicine were allopathy, Western medicine, regular medicine, mainstream medicine, and biomedicine. Interest in interventions that are not an integral part of conventional medicine prompted the National Institutes of Health to create the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) in 1992, and then to establish the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in 1999. Read More »
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Three major views, or paradigms, attempt to explain the causes of disease and illness: the biomedical or scientific view, the naturalistic or holistic perspective, and the magico-religious view. Read More »
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Assessment
1. Assess the person’s readiness for health education.
a. What are the person’s health beliefs and behaviors?
b. What physical and psychosocial adaptations does the person need to make? Read More »
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