HEALTH PROMOTION ISSUES

Management and Health Promotion Issues

Management and Health Promotion Issues

Profile and History of Patient

The service user selected for this report is Mr. A, male of approximately 50 years of age. He is married, and belongs to the ethnic minority group (i.e. he is British Hispanic). His past medical record pointed out that 10 years before, he had hypertension which was managed by the use of medicines and also had diabetes mellitus. In order to find his surgical record, it was evident that around 8 years before he had appendectomy. However, no known allergies were identified. He never had any special need and neither any transfusion of blood was carried out. A week ago, he had been admitted to hospital because of severe pain resulting from an injury he had.

Introduction

Pain ensuing from any physical harm, disease, or illness is a multifaceted incident comprised of bodily, psychosomatic and other variables of influence. Elements, for instance, unnecessary somatic thinking, depression, and anxiety are particularly made out in the literature of medicine as dynamically causative to the etiology, management, and amount of pain. When all of these constituents are considerable recognized and experimentally discussed, outcomes of treatment consequential from non-surgical, operational and therapeutic strategies are imperatively enhanced.

Assessment Tool for Physical Injury

Here is the tool for assessing the physical injury of Mr. A. He will provide the responses of the statements used in the assessment tool by marking the numeric. The assessment tool is as follows:

Instructions: The below mentioned testimonials explain how each individual might feel, believe, or perform throughout and later than the extremely stressful happenings in life. The patient is supposed to point out how finely every of these testimonials explains his reaction to the strain of his physical injury.

Assessment

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3

2

1

0

Acquire initiative to repair effects

Not surrender attempting to resolve setbacks I feel I am able to resolve

Get an approach to perform what is obligatory to keep on

Plead or turn over in my mind

Deal with my apprehensions

Strive to “revitalize” myself prior to I am obliged to confront the next challenge

Try to find innovative resolutions to the crisis

Stand out establishing which conditions are unreliable and which are not

Discover potency in the implication, rationale, or motive of my existence

Anticipate that I am capable of handling it

Resort to messages discovered from collapses and previous blunders

Apply methods to deal with it superiorly next occasion



Scale range: 4 (Exactly Like Me) to 0 (Not at All Like Me)

Michael Phelan's Assessment Tool Physical Health Check (PHC)

The well-built association among chronic mental sickness and deprived physical condition is well recognized (Phelan, Stradins, & Morrison, 2001). The majority, if not everyone categories of mental diseases are affiliated with an amplified ratios of death in early hours. A large amount of this augmented transience is because of an augment in infections, heart disease, endocrine disease, gastrointestinal disease, and respiratory disease. Several rationales for the overloaded morbidity and transience are obvious. Detrimental styles of living, after effects of enduring medication of psychiatry, and misuse of substances, are the entire frequent ...