Nola Pender

Health Promotion Theory

Dr. Pender has been a nurse educator for over forty years. Throughout her career.

She taught baccalaureate masters, and PhD students.

She also mentored a number of postdoctoral fellows.

In 1998, she received the Mae Edna Doyle Teacher of the Year award from the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

She currently serves as a Distinguished Professor at Loyola University Chicago, School of Nursing.

She was the lady that started the Health Promotion Model in Nursing Care .

She was born in August 16,1941 at Lansing, Michigan

II. Data:

Features: This model is based on the idea that

human beings are rational, and will seek their advantage in health.

But the nature of this rationality is tightly bounded by things like self-esteem, perceived advantages of healthy behaviour , psychological states and previous behaviour.

As for the medical profession in general, the main purpose here is not merely to cure disease, but to promote

healthy lifestyles and choices that affect the health of

individuals.

Function:The central function of

this theory is to show the individual as self-

determining, but as also determined by personal

history and general personal characteristics.

Health is a dynamic process, not a static state.

Health, to put it differently is a lifestyle conditioned by a number of choices made by the individual to actually live a health lifestyle.

Effects:The man effect of

Pender’s model is that it puts the onus of

healthcare reform on the person, not on the

profession.

Healthcare is a series of intelligent , rational choices that promote health concerning things like diet, exercise and positive thinking. All of this are choices and ingredients in living healthy.

Unhealthy lifestyle, in other words, are the result of distorted thinking that may derive from ignorance of lack of self-esteem.

If these thoughts can be reformed (which is itself a life-long process ), then rational choices can take their place, leading to a truly healthy lifestyle.

Significance: health is up to the person. The significance here is that the medical profession is not really not the main ingredient in living a healthy lifestyle.

They might be an important part, but always serve a secondary role to the basic rational choices of healthy living.

The health profession, in other words, is useless unless individuals reform their own lives and perception of what is healthy.

Considerations:A rational alternative to dependency on the medical profession is the of a rational, i.e., healthy, life.

• A healthy lifestyle is the ultimate antidote to rising healthcare costs, since a rational population is a healthy one, which would naturally drive down healthcare costs.

oPender is an advocate of preventive medicine, which is another word for rational, healthy thinking and therefore healthy and rational living.

III. Contributions:Pender’s Healthy Promotion

Model:Promotes healthy behaviors

and encourages interpersonal guidance for the advancement of self-efficacy.

Interpersonal reactions between nurses, community leaders and individuals to prevent disease.

2 Concepts:1.Health Promotion is defined as behaviour

motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential. It is an approach to wellness.

2. Health protection or illness Prevention is described as

behaviour motivated desire to actively avoid illness, detect it early, or maintain functioning within the constraints of illness.

The major concepts and definitions of health promotion

model: Individual characteristics and

experience Prior related behaviour Frequency of the similar

behaviour in the past. Direct and indirect effects in on the likelihood of engaging in health promoting behaviours

Personal factors Personal factors categories as

biological, psychological and socio-cultural. These factors are predictive of a given behaviour and shaped by the nature of the target behaviour

Personal biological factor Includes variables such as age

gender body mass index pubertal status, aerobic capacity, strength , agility, or balance.

Personal psychological factors: Include variables such as self-

esteem, self motivation, personal competence perceived health status and definition of health

Personal socio-cultural factors Include such as race ethnicity,

acculturation, education and socio economic status.

Behavioural specific cognition and effect

Heath promoting behaviour: endpoint or action outcome directed

towards attaining positive health outcome such as optional well being personal fulfilment and productive living.

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