Health promotion is crucial aspect that helps individuals to effectively control various elements in their life aimed at enhancing their health and ultimately their overall wellbeing (Raczynski & DiClemente, 2013). In reference to case scenario, health promotion is an effective intervention that would help in enhancing the health of all the family members and significantly minimized their risk for various illnesses especially the chronic diseases. In the light of this, physical activity as well as healthy nutrition are among the most crucial topics relating to health promotion that would help in enhancing the family’s health and minimize their risk for various illnesses.
Although, the individual and family is generally healthy, it is necessary to educate the on the importance of adopting healthy nutritional habits as well as engaging in physical activities regularly since this helps in disease prevention and improves the overall wellbeing of individuals and entire families (Berge et al., 2012). With regard to this the key objective of this intervention would be to help the family in establishing healthy nutritional habits as well as active lifestyles and maintain the aforementioned behaviors. On the one hand, it is necessary to educate the family on the healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains. In addition, the family should be educated on the appropriate portion sizes and the need to maintain a regular eating routine. Moreover, the family should be educated on the need to minimize consumption of unhealthy foods like sugary foods and foods with high fat content since they increase an individual’s risk of developing various health complucations. On the other hand, the family should be educated on the need to engage in physical activities regularly since this helps in maintain a healthy weight and minimizes the risk for serious health complications like cardiovascular diseases since overweight is among the key risk factor for various chronic illnesses (Berge et al., 2012). More importantly, it is crucial to provide the family with the relevant tools and educational materials on healthy eating and physical activities so as to foster the sustenance of these behaviors among the family members.
Subsequently, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive follow-up plan in order to foster maintenance of these behaviors (i.e. healthy eating and regular physical activities). In regard to this, I would develop a post-intervention program that would incorporate home visits every fortnight for three months in order to ensure that the family maintains the aforementioned behaviors.
References
Berge, J. M., Arikian, A., Doherty, W. J., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2012). Healthful eating and physical activity in the home environment: results from multifamily focus groups. Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 44(2), 123-131.
Raczynski, J. M., & DiClemente, R. J. (Eds.). (2013). Handbook of health promotion and disease prevention. Springer Science & Business Media.
