Women’s Health Promotion Plan Events and Overview
Filipino culture revolves around families and is often neighborhood focused. The neighborhood’s healthy persons are an excellent place to start with implementation of the health promotion plan.
This plan will begin with nurse and nursing student volunteers to set up several tables in the entertainment area of the market for a health fair. Tables will include free basic health assessments and screenings such as blood pressure, blood sugar, pregnancy tests and health reporting questionnaires. Other activities at fair will include games for children (so that their mothers are free to spend time with nurses), music, food, arts and crafts projects with women's health themes embedded therein. This is financed through some of the grant money as well as donations from local businesses. Several of the male volunteers have set up a discussion area where other men can seek out advice or health information. This male to male teaching is often more accepted. At the health screening tables themselves, nurses and nursing students will create a database of those individuals who choose to be screened by recording names, addresses, screening results and other pertinent health information of participants. Visitors will then be triaged into one of four categories in order to receive the most appropriate level of ongoing support from the clinic and community health nurses. Those categories are healthy population, population at risk, population with symptoms and population with active disease states or illness.
It is anticipated that this health fair will be the first step to kick off multiple programs throughout the year. By starting with the fair and performing basic assessments, collecting a data bank of participants and identifying needs and proportion of persons in each category the clinic personnel will have a better idea of which programs to implement first.
Some of the initial plans for other activities include:
This plan will begin with nurse and nursing student volunteers to set up several tables in the entertainment area of the market for a health fair. Tables will include free basic health assessments and screenings such as blood pressure, blood sugar, pregnancy tests and health reporting questionnaires. Other activities at fair will include games for children (so that their mothers are free to spend time with nurses), music, food, arts and crafts projects with women's health themes embedded therein. This is financed through some of the grant money as well as donations from local businesses. Several of the male volunteers have set up a discussion area where other men can seek out advice or health information. This male to male teaching is often more accepted. At the health screening tables themselves, nurses and nursing students will create a database of those individuals who choose to be screened by recording names, addresses, screening results and other pertinent health information of participants. Visitors will then be triaged into one of four categories in order to receive the most appropriate level of ongoing support from the clinic and community health nurses. Those categories are healthy population, population at risk, population with symptoms and population with active disease states or illness.
It is anticipated that this health fair will be the first step to kick off multiple programs throughout the year. By starting with the fair and performing basic assessments, collecting a data bank of participants and identifying needs and proportion of persons in each category the clinic personnel will have a better idea of which programs to implement first.
Some of the initial plans for other activities include:
- a women's day out fair where women are taught about maternal health, reproductive health and family planning. The atmosphere will be festive and include interactive games and sessions designed to engage participants.
- A men's day out fair with similar events designed to educate men about ways they can support women's health issues. It is anticipated that the current male volunteers will receive training and be the main presenters for this program.
- An additional health screening fair in approximately six months.
- A celebration of achievement at the end of the year for volunteers and participants who complete a series of health education classes through the clinic.
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