CHCPOL003 Research And Apply Evidence To Practice
Question:
Purpose:
This task is for students to demonstrate understanding of their own assessment of a particular community. Students will discuss the Determinants of Health and the impact on the health of individuals or populations within this area. Students will also consider how health care and nursing practice is influenced by where people live, work and grow. This reflection provides evidence for the exploration of current health or social issues impacting on a group, population or a community from a political, cultural and national perspective.
Instructions
Using reflection and analysis, discuss what determinants are contributing to these health issues. HOW and WHY may they be impacting on the population? What health care is being provided to improve the current health status of this population? What gaps exist? Discuss how health professional intervention, especially nursing, might also be influenced by these determinants and what role the nurse might have in improving health in this area.
Finally, students need to include a reflection about their own learning experience and personal growth after conducting the fieldwork and community assessment.
- How has this experience changed your thinking about health and/or the role of the nurse?
- What have you learnt from conducting the fieldwork or looking at your community through a different, health related lens?
- Identify any elements of this assessment that have enabled you to seemore indirect aspects that impact on the health of individuals?
- Identify 2 things that has changed the way you thinkabout the priority health issue you discovered?
Answer:
Obesity: Description
- The lifestyle factors in the Cranbourne community which include alcohol consumption, lack of exercises, smoking and poor diet are the major contributing factors for diseases such as obesity.
- The evidence on the global burden of disease (2016).
- Australia populace continued to grow over decades, but more of population is aging.
Feelings
- I found out male smoking, low birth weights, and systolic blood pressure.
- While for the I found out factors contributed to women obese were high body mass index, high fasting plasma glucose, and systolic blood pressure.
- I felt cases of social changes and lifestyle increased many cases of obesity in female population.
Evaluation
- From the evaluation obesity was rampant on women more as compared to men.
- Further it showed, men aged over 45 years were likely to be overweight compared to women at 79% and 66% respectively.
Analysis
- As nurse point of view, the obesity problem facing the Australia population are as a result of poor diet during meals and social life style change.
- I further note that women only meet fruit requirement but I am not sure if they still observe exercising so as to reduce weight.
- For the men’s case I observed they exercised but did not observe diet like eating fruits
Reflection
- Obesity exist with Cranbourne community because of lack to observe balanced diet and not exercising
- Not eating fruits, greens and lack of physical exercise contribute increase in weights for Cranbourne community people.
- Currently people go for check ups at health facility though the up ward obesity trend is worrying s.
- Lack of education on dangers of one being overweight and health risks associated.
- Nurses have a role to educate the public on importance to do exercise and eat greens and a lot of fruits during the meals.
- As nurse I play treat the patient and give education on prevention measures.
Conclusion
- key features that impacted on Australian populace were lack of exercise among the female.
- lack to meet fruits requirements in two meals per day for male counterparts.
Action Plan
- The study indicated increasing cases of heart diseases, cancer and diabetes are more in the aging Australia population.
- What the evidenced inform is that people from 45 years are not exercising resulting in obese cases for the female population.
References
- Hoare, E., Dash, S. R., Jennings, G. L., & Kingwell, B. A. (2018). Sex-specific associations in nutrition and activity-related risk factors for chronic disease: Australian evidence from childhood to emerging adulthood. International journalof environmental research and public health, 15(2), 214.
- Hopkins, L. C., & Gunther, C. (2015). A historical review of changes in nutrition standards of USDA child meal programs relative to research findings on the nutritional adequacy of program meals and the diet and nutritional health of participants: implications for future research and the Summer Food Service Program. Nutrients, 7(12), 10145-10167.
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