Health promotion by nurses

Nurses are the experts in this field but even they are not very effective in reducing coronary risk. In the community-based OXCHECK randomized trial (N = 6124, aged 35-64) serum cholesterol fell by only 0.08-0.2mmol/L and there was no significant difference in rates of giving up smoking, or in body mass index. Systolic (and diastolic) BP fell by ~2.5% in the intervention group receiving dietary and lifestyle advice.

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Description About Health Education

What is education? four incomplete answers

• Education is the system used for passing down, from one generation to the next, society's values, attitudes, and culture. Thus are crime, duplicity and double standards (and, on a good day, idealism) perpetuated in a kind of cultural inheritance.
• Education is an activity carried out on ignoramuses by

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Is our personal datas accuracy validated

Data entry is often unreliable. Has the accuracy of the data we are being compared with been validated? Could the differences between our data and others have arisen by chance? This is the most revealing question. Imagine a thought-experiment in which 4 equal doctors use different strategies for predicting whether a tossed coin will land heads or tails.

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What are the determinants of health

One answer is wealth. With wealth comes more stable political systems, and these are what are necessary for literacy and education to flourish, which in turn leads to easy access to clean water (the key issue, as more than 1 billion people have no such access), and the possibility of developing equitable health delivery systems. After clean water, the next steps focus on better nutrition, smaller families, more self-help, and anti-HIV strategies.

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Some definitions and measures of health

Primary care and distributive justice

There is a famous WHO Alma-Ata statement which declares that primary care should be made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community, by means acceptable to them, through their full participation, and at the cost that the community and country can afford to maintain in the spirit of self-reliance[and] addresses the main health problems in the community, providing promotive, preventative, curative and rehabilitative services accordingly.

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