Health promotion activities: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and pregnancy

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ABSTRACT

Health promotion activities over the past decade have become a popular catchphrase to describe a wide array of activities designed to improve the health of populations.

It is the process, which enables people to maximize their control over their health, and therefore, improve their health. We can use the health promotion activities on patients who are suffering from deadly diseases like HIV, hepatitis and women who are in the condition of pregnancy. The use of health promotion activities involves activities after the occurrence of the disease and before the occurrence of the disease for prevention purposes. This helps a patient in fighting against diseases like HIV and hepatitis, whose treatment is very painful. Furthermore, pregnant women can use these health promotion activities to maintain their health and their child's health.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would take this opportunity to thank my research supervisor, family and friends for their support and guidance without which this research would not have been possible.

DECLARATION

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTII

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTIII

DECLARATIONIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

1.1 Introduction1

1.2 Background of the problem1

1.3 Problem statement3

1.4 Aim and Objectives of the Study5

1.5 Significance of the Study5

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW7

2.1 Early Health Promotion: Relationships between Attitudes and Behaviour8

2.1.1 The Role of Knowledge8

2.1.2 Attitudes and Behaviour Change9

2.2 Recent models of health promotion10

2.3 Health promotion, community, and responses to HIV/AIDS12

2.4 Critiques of community-based health promotion12

2.5 Hepatitis C13

2.5.1 Screening14

2.5.2 Harm reduction as a health promotion measure14

2.6 Pregnancy16

2.6.1.1 Planning the Pregnancy17

2.6.1.2 Adequate Nutrition18

2.6.2 Pender's health promotion model18

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY20

3.1 Research Questions20

3.2 Research design20

3.3 Justification of secondary research method21

3.4 Criteria for searching literature22

3.5 Keywords22

3.6 Critical Appraisal tool22

3.7 Ethical Considerations22

3.8 Timeline24

REFERENCES25

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction

Health promotion over the past decade has become a popular catchphrase to describe a wide array of activities designed to improve the health of populations. Expanding definitions of health have come to include not only physical health but also psychological, emotional, and social well-being, with the idea that humans should not just exist without disease but should thrive across a variety of domains. These expanding views on health have led to a surge in interest in creating healthy lifestyles and environments for individuals. Changing the ways in which people live, however, offers challenges, which do not exist when health care, is limited to simply treating disease. Altering the health and lifestyles of a population involves changing not only individual's behaviours but also the attitudes of peers, the ways in which institutions - such as the medical profession view health and the responsibility of the individual, as well as public policy, which can support health promotion strategies, such as nonsmoking policies for businesses and public facilities.

1.2 Background of the problem

Around six million women become pregnant in the United Kingdom each ...