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Nursing borrows various theoretical models from social and biological sciences to integrate them into their practices. The uniqueness facilitates designing novel concepts and offers distinct phenomenon of interest to healthcare professionals. This essay will highlight the life course theory for the health promotion model of heart diseases. Inspired by social sciences life course theory focuses on the holistic care of a person. This approach is based on the principals that suggest that the non-communicable diseases mount up gradually inside as the age increases and multiple factors of each stage impact them differently throughout the life (Aboderin et al., 2002).
For an apt health promotional model primary prevention is the first step of care. Designing a health promotion model using life course theory for a cardiovascular problem the life can be divided into five stages, fetal life, infancy and childhood, adolescence, adult life and intergeneration. To design an appropriate health promotion model using life course perspective needs a proper dig in these stages of the life of the affected person. Evidence-based studies have confirmed that fetal growth and nutritional condition as well as socioeconomic status at the time of birth, growth rate and detrimental diet, obesity, socioeconomic condition, and breastfeeding period, or any infectious ailment from infancy increases the risk. Unhealthy diet and low sedentary lifestyle of adolescence, and behavioral, biological risk factors, and substance use from adult life have exhibited multiple risk factors linking to cardiovascular problems. An intergenerational connection also imposes their impact on heart health. The investigational approach on this basis will help in discovering whether the patient needs primary care or secondary care. Thus, it is necessary to consider all the social and physical hazards that resulted in biological, behavioral, and psychosocial processes. An open discussion with patient explaining all the evidence from his lifespan to reduce the cardiovascular risks factors is essential to interpret his condition.
On the basis of historical processes, the screening tests for lipid and cholesterol levels and treatment can be prescribed to avoid stroke, and smoking cessation can also be commenced to reduce the risk intensity. If secondary prevention is needed, there is a lot of work to be done including identification of high-risk categories such as hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, and peripheral vascular or cerebrovascular disease evidence (Ebrahim & Smith, 1998; Aboderin et al., 2002).
Reference
Aboderin, I., Kalache, A., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Lynch, J.W., Yajnik, C.S., Kuh, D., Yach, D. (2002).
Life Course Perspectives on Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke and Diabetes: Key Issues
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