Population & Community Health Promotion
Population & Community Health Promotion
What are specific actions that health professionals can take regardless of their practice area and site to promote population and community health?
Submission Instructions:
- Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources
Requirements: 500 word
Answer preview
Another effective action is to engage in preventive and harm reduction measures like immunization, syringe services, and knowledge transfer to deter the occurrence of disease and manage existing hazards. Preventive programs have an impressive positive impact on disease reduction. Haldane et al. (2019) found an 8-46% success rate favoring prevention groups in disease prevention. Such programs support environmental change and create meaningful support systems to prevent injuries and diseases. Harm reduction campaigns like syringe services are controversial yet studies have shown they prevent disease spread by eliminating the practice of sharing syringes among drug addicts. The prioritization of community needs is a key consideration when developing preventive programs because the program must have relevance for a significant number of people in the community.
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Population & Community Health Promotion
