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Healthy People as a Roadmap to Nation's Health
The objective of this work is to select a health event and discuss the implications for nursing practice if you held each of Smith's concepts. This work will determine the media exposure of individual and community risk reduction activities and specify which determinants are the focuses of risk reduction measures. These measures will be analyzed for the potential for risk reduction in individuals, families, and communities. This work will further locate two relevant websites for each lifespan group and discuss the relevance of each website as well as examining the significance of Healthy People as a roadmap for the nation's health.
One of the goals of Healthy People is to "promote health and reduce chronic disease through the consumption of healthful diets and achievement and maintenance of healthy body weights." (Healthy People, 2011) This means that individuals will: (1) Consume a variety...
(Healthy People, 2011)
I. Potential for Risk Reduction
Healthy People sets out a method for reducing risk of chronic disease through changing eating habits and limiting certain foods so that the individual can attain and then maintain a healthy body weight. This requires that the individual, family and community adhere to a healthy dietary intake and limit eating foods containing saturated and trans fats, cholesterol, added sugars, salt and alcohol. This has a great potential for risk reduction however, for the individual and family that lives a busy lifestyle, the potential…
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