Health Promotion Plan Primary Health Care

Health Promotion Plan Primary Health Care

Setting the scene:

You are the new Registered Nurse for the Humanitarian Entrants Health Service located in Perth

Situation

You have been asked to review the community and develop a health promotion plan, focusing on a health issue (e.g. HIV) relevant to your community. This must be a health issue not already being addressed in your community. You are required to investigate the community further using the McMurray Community Assessment Framework. You are required to choose a target group for your intervention. For example, if you were working as a GP nurse in Wiluna, your target group might be young adults at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The Health Promotion Project you design must take into account Primary Health Care, health education and health promotion principles. You must consider the social determinants of health and health literacy of your community.

The purpose of this assessment is to introduce you to community assessment frameworks and to explore a health issue from a Primary Health Care (PHC) and health promotion perspective. It also enables you to consider how the characteristics of the target group may influence health promotion strategies.

Guidelines:

Please ensure that you include the following:

1. Introduce your chosen health issue, including any relevant epidemiological information, and provide an explanation of why it is an important primary health care issue to address. Research the demographics and level of disadvantage of your community: What is the age, sex and racial or ethnic composition of the community compared to the rest of Western Australia? What is the SEIFA score (if appropriate). Interpret your findings (What does this mean, how is it relevant). Introduce your project and target group. Explain why the program will be important for the target group and wider community. Please note that this must target a community, not a region.

Approximately 400 words

2. What is the evidence base for the project? Outline your assessment of the community. What community strengths (assets), resources and risks have been considered when designing the project? Discuss how you have used a SWOT analysis to interpret your research and how this has influenced your project design. Include a brief discussion of any current health promotion programs for this health issue. Approximately 500 words
3. Provide a description of the project. What is the level of prevention? (primary or secondary prevention only). Explain the role of the community health nurse implementing the program. Approximately 300 words
4. Outline the project goal and three objectives. Objectives should reflect the risk factor you are addressing. (You may use a table here to outline objective and risk factor) Approximately 200 words
5. Outline three strategies of the project, provide a rationale for each strategy and indicate which objectives this covers (you can use a table here if you wish) Approximately 500 words
6. Provide a brief explanation of how you will evaluate the program. Include pre/post evaluation. Outline your data sources and evaluation questions. This may be in table format (see example below). Approximately 200 words
7. Write a conclusion Approximately 100 words
8. References must be of a scholarly nature, and may include Grey literature, texts or peer reviewed articles. e.g. AIHW reports, ABS data, Primary Health Network reports, textbook, peer reviewed article. Include a minimum of 15 high quality Of the 15 references, at least 5 must be from peer reviewed journal articles and 5 from Grey literature. These ten references must be less than 6 years old. If you are unsure of the appropriateness of any reference, please ask your tutor for advice. Provide a reference list on a separate page using APAv7 style.

 

The word count suggestions listed next to the questions are just a guide to assist you, and are not a requirement. Overall the content should be no more than 2200 words +/- 10% (not including reference list, title page or table of contents). The absolute maximum word limit will be 2500 words (this is the 10% variation rounded up to the nearest hundred). You can present the information in tables and/or in paragraphs. Please note that as this is an academic paper, it should be written in the third person.

Some helpful resources:

https://www.wapha.org.au/primary-health-networks/

http://www.abs.gov.au

Local council websites

https://crana.org.au/

www.apna.asn.au

https://homelesshealthcare.org.au/

https://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/F_I/Humanitarian-Entrant-Health-Service

 

Note: This must be a new service to this client group, not an adaption/tweaking of an existing health service. You must ensure that there is not already a service in place to meet your identified health need for your chosen community.

Tips for success: Your plan must be realistic and meet the SMART goals – i.e. have a reasonable chance of obtaining funding. Ensure your proposal clearly identifies your nursing role, organisation, location, target group, purpose of your project and the evidence supporting your project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examples of tables describing demographics

Table 1. 

The proportion of male and females of X Local Government Area:

People	X              (%)	Western Australia (%)
Total	31,348                       —-	2,239,170                  —-
Male	15,595                 49.7	1,126,178         50.3
Female	15,753                 50.3	1,112,992         49.7

Note: Adapted from “Local government area gender breakdown in Western Australia”, by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011, Australian Bureau of statistics (https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/6227.0/). Copyright 2020 by Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Table 2.

The age structure of X Local Government Area:

Age	X (LGA) %	Western Australia
0-14 yrs	17.5	19.7
15-29 yrs	20.7	21.2
30-49 yrs	26.7	28.7
50-64 yrs	19.8	18.1
65-84 yrs	13.1	10.8
85 yrs and over	2.2	1.5

Note: Adapted from “Local government area gender breakdown in Western Australia”, by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011, Australian Bureau of statistics (https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/6227.0/). Copyright 2020 by Australian Bureau of Statistics.

 

 

Table 3.

Ethnic Composition Table:

Population	Number of people	Percentage of total population (31,348 persons)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander	972	3.1%
Australian born	22,789	72.7%
Overseas born	8,558	27.3%

Note: Adapted from “Local government area gender breakdown in Western Australia”, by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011, Australian Bureau of statistics (https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/6227.0/). Copyright 2020 by Australian Bureau of Statistics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Format guide Health Promotion Plan

Introduction

Evidence base for (Insert name of your project)

(Insert name of your project) description

(Also introduce the target group in this description)

Goals and objectives

Goal:

Objectives:

Strategies

Strategy 1:

Rationale:

Objectives: (e.g.1, 2, 3)

Strategy 2:

Rationale:

Objectives:

Strategy 3:

Rationale:

Objectives:

Evaluation Plan

Summary

References (on new page)

The following formatting/presentation specifications must be followed for assignment submissions

 

Evaluation Plan example

 

Table 1.

 

Evaluation questions

 

Type of evaluation	Evaluation method and questions
Process Evaluation	Data collection methods: 1. 2.   Evaluation questions: 1. 2.
Impact and Outcome Evaluation	Data collection methods: 1. 2. Evaluation questions: 1. 2. 3. 4.

 

Assignment specific formatting:

• Submission title of your assignment to be your Role, e.g. Registered Nurse
• Please include a title and contents page using APA 7^th edition format
• Present your strategies and evaluation plan in table format if you wish
• Remember, do not write in the first person!

In addition to the information above, please ensure the following is adhered to:

 

Academic Format Required:

• Use 11-point Arial or Calibri font.
• Compliant with APA formatting guide including paragraph layout, headings, title page, table of contents,
• Margins are to be 2 cm from the top, bottom, and sides.
• All text to be 1.5 spaced, including block quotes and citations (text within tables to be single spaced)
• Page numbers at the top right of the page
• Adhere to specified word count.
• In text referencing is included in the word count.
• End text referencing is not included in the word count

• As this assignment will be submitted via Turnitin, please do not supply an electronic coversheet.