Question

Dawn and Sanjay are nursing students who decide to work with a corporation in the community by providing wellness care to the employees. Dawn and Sanjay implement blood pressure screening in a corner of the corporation’s employee dining room so that employees may have their blood pressure checked during lunch. The employees are asked to complete a short questionnaire that assesses their risk for heart disease. Those employees with risk factors, high blood pressure readings, or both are referred to the corporation’s health clinic for further evaluation and care.
1. What is the goal of health-promotion programs in general? For this particular program? Discuss.
2. How is Dawn and Sanjay’s blood pressure screening a risk-reduction program? Discuss.
3. Discuss how Healthy People 2010 differs from Healthy People 2020 in terms of workplace health promotion

Answer 1

1. Goal is to promote health of individuals by identifying risk factors at the earliest and adopting a healthy lifestyle. For this particular program, goal is to identify individuals with risk factors of developing heart disease and hypertension, to take treatment so as to prevent further disabilities.

2. It is a risk reduction program as it will help to identify individuals with hypertension and other risk factors for developing heart disease . Hypertension is a risk factor of developing further problems like bleeding disorders, aneurysms, eye problems. Thus it is a risk reduction program.

3. Healthy people 2010 focus on health education, skill development and lifestyle behaviour change providing supportive physical and social environment, applying screening programs whereas in healthy people 2020, national occupational research agenda is established to research and improve workplace practices. Healthy people 2020 covers occupational safety in broader terms taking into account age, gender, training,culture and access to preventive health care.