Discussion 2: Project Support Area (Health Promotion Program Proposal)
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post an update on the progress you are making on your Health Promotion Program Proposal. Topics for discussion include methods used to assess the health needs of your chosen community, how program stakeholders were identified, collaboration strategies you propose, and program goals and objectives.
This Discussion will be available from Day 1 of Week 4 through Day 7 of Week 5. While you are required to submit your update by Day 3 of Week 5, you are encouraged to post early. Once you have submitted your initial post, begin reviewing the responses of your colleagues. Provide your assessment of the methods used to determine their community’s needs and proposed collaboration strategies. Explain your rationale.
MY PROPOSAL/ Health Promotion Program Proposals
Assessment methods depict ways that apply in optimizing hypertension management in rural societies. They are essential to reduce expenses, improve outcomes and enhance care among patients. The methods used to assess health needs of my chosen community include:
Sharing the best practices with the staff; it helps the organization to identify the vital developments that apply in controlling the disease and ways to achieve them. It also incorporates ways that the staff can embrace to determine rates of the disease prevalence among the victims in the community. It entails implementation of standardized approaches and procedures that physicians use to update important details of their patients (Brent, 2013). For instance, this involve cheaper medications and allowing free blood pressure reading in communities.
Disseminating monthly physician report: it is a vital method to assess health needs which enhances a transparent and a timely feedback. It increases the engagement of physicians hence facilitate their performance improvement. It also incorporates use of electric health record data that gives a report concerning their blood pressure and ways to improve their health.
Utilization of patient engagement tools: this is another approach that is used to assess how patients respond to medication in the community. These tools determine whether they maintain a healthy diet, exercise on a regular basis or keep medical appointments. They are key elements in assessing and managing hypertension among patients. Through this procedure, the sick individuals are encouraged to be active participants to cater for their own health. The assessment enables them to indulge in activities that allows them to manage their blood pressure effectively. They incorporate monitoring blood pressure from home. It enables patients to learn on tips to measure, record and provide accurate readings to their physicians. This enables them to determine whether they should change medication and the lifestyle of patients. To assess health needs of the community, it is also significant to involve educational materials.
Additionally, the participating groups require to offer the sick with free reading materials. This will help patients to understand the vital aspects of the hypertension disease and make the necessary adjustments (Brent, 2013).
The program stakeholders were identified based on their interest on knowledge pertaining hypertension disease. This strategy engages stakeholders by identifying experts to aid in expanding the sustainability of the program. These stakeholders are program champions who are influential in their groups and are active in the care management program. They are also recognized in relation to how they can offer feedback about hypertension by suggesting the new initiatives to apply in this health program. The ability to communicate effectively was another strategy that assisted to identify stakeholders. This was determined in the manner in which they planned and designed different stages of the program.
The collaboration strategies that I propose include team based care to improve blood pressure among patients. It is helpful because it involves individuals who communicate with patients to determine their progress. This implies that they reschedule and make follow up appointments especially to patients who fail to see physicians on time (Klag, 2014).
The Program goals is to ensure that free care is granted to patients who are suffering from hypertension in rural regions. It also intends to provide tools to aid for screening to improve the conditions of people with high blood pressure in the community. The objective of this program is to reduce the number of hypertension cases in the society. This is by ensuring that physicians access and offer care to the rural population.
References:
Brent, H. (2013). Hypertension and Collaboration Strategies. Journal of Health Programs Issue 85(6), 16-28.
Klag, M. (2014). Hypertension. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
A colleague asked me this Qs: PLEASE ANSER THIS Qs
I enjoyed reading your progress on your proposal.It is very interesting to hear that you’re proposing to give ‘free care to people who are suffering from hypertension. What kind of free service did you plan to provide and where is your funding source? Also, who are your stakeholders?
Professor suggestions for my PROPOSAL
Good progress. I suggest making the program objective more specific and measurable such as “reduce hypertension in this community by 50% within 1 year of program initiation.”
SOME of Prof. comments abt Stakeholders/Primary data/Secondary data:
In regards to the identification of stakeholders, I believe you are confused with participants, stakeholders and collecting data for the needs assessment. Stakeholders would not be randomly selected or sent mailed surveys. A needs assessment would be conducted prior to the program initiation. This could be done through primary or secondary sources. If you collect the data, then it is primary. If you use existing data sources, then it is secondary. For the purposes of this assignment in this class, you will only need secondary data to establish the need for such a program. As far as participants, they could be sent a questionnaire as part of the program to assess their recent vaccination history but this would be limited to the actual participants, not the entire community.
RESOURCES:
McKenzie, J. F., Neiger, B. L., & Thackeray, R. (2017). Planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs: A primer (7th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson.
· Chapter 4, “Assessing Needs” (pp. 67-102)
· Chapter 6, “Mission Statement, Goals, and Objectives” (pp. 133-142)
· Chapter 9, “Community Organizing and Community Building” (pp. 237-255)
Schulz, A. J., Israel, B. A., Coombe, C. M., Gaines, C., Reyes, A. G., Rowe, Z.,…Weir, S. (2011). Community-based participatory planning process and multilevel intervention design: Toward eliminating cardiovascular health inequities. Health Promotion Practice, 12(6), 900–911.
