FAMILY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP: HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT

FAMILY MEDICINE CLERKSHIP: HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT

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The main goal of this health promotion project is to enable patients to increase control over and improve their own health. As healthcare providers, it is our responsibility to promote healthy lifestyles, along with identifying high risk patients who can develop complications from their various chronic illnesses or lifestyle risk factors. The objectives of this project are to inform patients about the prevention of a specific disease states and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts.

Ask the patient the following questions and record and reassess the results. Please attach a current article (<5 years old) that discusses health promotion issues that relates to one of your patient’s illness(es). The assignment must be typed.

1. Identify and list this patient’s chronic illnesses and any lifestyle risk factors. Make sure to include the age, sex, and race of your patient.

2. What specific recommendations or actions did you take to enable patient selfmanagement, disease prevention and health promotion?

3. Has your patient been receiving continuous health screening from visited facility? If so, when and what was done? If no, what health care maintenance or health screening is this patient due for?

4. Reassess the patient and note if any changes were attempted or made after your initial discussions.

5. Please read your article (<5 years) that discusses one health promotion issue that relates to your patient’s illness(es). Please attach a one-page, typed, double spaced paper summarizing the article and discussing opinions regarding the article.