The KwaZulu-Natal Health Promotion Model

Purpose : To describe a health promotion model aimed at assisting primary health care nurses to incorporate health promotion into their practice. Organizing Structure : The model is based on empowering people through a systematic, planned, needs‐driven curriculum with comprehensive content, using in...

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Published in:Journal of nursing scholarship 2004-01, Vol.36 (3), p.192-196
Main Authors: Uys, Leana R., Majumdar, Basanti, Gwele, Nomthandaso S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Continental Ancestry Group - education
African Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Curriculum
empowerment
Female
Health Behavior
Health Education - organization & administration
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
health promotion
Health Promotion - organization & administration
Humans
Models, Educational
Models, Nursing
Models, Organizational
Models, Psychological
Needs Assessment
Nurse's Role
Nursing
Nursing Evaluation Research
Poverty Areas
Power (Psychology)
primary health care
Primary Health Care - organization & administration
Program Evaluation
Rural Health
Social Change
South Africa
Women - education
Women - psychology
Women's Health
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Summary:Purpose : To describe a health promotion model aimed at assisting primary health care nurses to incorporate health promotion into their practice. Organizing Structure : The model is based on empowering people through a systematic, planned, needs‐driven curriculum with comprehensive content, using interactive teaching in small groups, and linking the groups with external resources. The process involves identifying and engaging partners, planning the project, implementing it, and then disengaging. Methods : The implementation of this model in a province of South Africa, KwaZulu‐Natal, in a collaborative project involving two universities and the state health services, changed the practice of the primary health care nurses involved. They worked with women's groups over 3 years and changed both their own perspectives and the lives of the women. Conclusions : Unless nurses have an implementation model available to them, they frequently focus only on illness needs of people and do not participate in health promotion.
ISSN:1527-6546
1547-5069
DOI:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2004.04037.x