Assignment: Family Health Status
Assignment: Family Health Status
Assignment: Family Health Status
Refer back to the interview and evaluation you conducted in the Topic 2 Family Health Assessment assignment. Identify the social determinates of health (SDOH) contributing to the familys health status. In a 750-1,000-word paper, create a plan of action to incorporate health promotion strategies for this family. Include the following:
1. Describe the SDOH that affect the family health status. What is the impact of these SDOH on the family? Discuss why these factors are prevalent for this family.
2. Based on the information gathered through the family health assessment, recommend age-appropriate screenings for each family member. Provide support and rationale for your suggestions.
3. Choose a health model to assist in creating a plan of action. Describe the model selected. Discuss the reasons why this health model is the best choice for this family. Provide rationale for your reasoning.
4. Using the model, outline the steps for a family-centered health promotion. Include strategies for communication.
Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide
The family is an important resource for addressing the needs of its members and providing care.
1,2 Because of the vital role it plays in the provision and maintenance of health status of its members, and all elements that contribute to obtaining optimal health, the family in its different forms, structures, and functions is a primary focus of community health; nursing practitioners.
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Family members have varied duties to play, yet the popularity of different types of family varies.
Most importantly, the rise in single-parent households and stepfamilies in recent decades has heightened attention in the effects of changing family structure on family members health.
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In the past, the model family was thought to be a two-parent family, as defined by family researchers and politicians.
It was frequently employed as a criterion for judging the quality of other families.
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Despite the fact that two-parent families are becoming less popular, they remain the most common family type worldwide.
Two-parent families are commonly linked with Asian and Middle Eastern countries.
Children in America, Europe, Oceania, and Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, are more likely to be raised in unconventional family configurations.
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Single parenthood or a one-parent household was once seen to be an outlier in the usual family.
The one-parent family was regarded as odd in comparison to the nuclear family structure, and the terminology used to characterize them was unfavorable.
Broken families, out-of-wedlock childbirth, and paternal absence are examples of such languages.
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Previous research
4,9 also stated that single parenting is becoming more common, citing unmarried women (including minors), divorcees, and families separated by migratory work arrangements as examples.
The family structure distribution differs per country.
Because to marital instability, there is a continuous increase in out-of-wedlock motherhood in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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War and the AIDS pandemic have exacerbated widowhood, resulting in a rise in the number of single-mother families in the region.
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Salami and Alawode12 wrote over a decade ago in Nigeria that the existence of single parents in the country was previously unknown, and that where they did exist, they were treated as outliers.
However, as they13 witnessed, single-parent families are a rapidly rising family structure in Nigeria, their perspective has shifted.
Communal violence, insurgency, and terrorism in some parts of Nigeria have contributed to a rise in the number of single parents and orphans in recent years.
In 2006, almost 1 million Nigerian women aged 10 to 85 were divorced or separated, and 1.7 million were widowed.
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The effect of family structure on family members overall well-being has been thoroughly studied in the literature.
Single parents are said to be the ones who suffer the most from family instability and poverty, which affects both parents and their children economically, socially, physically, and mentally.
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Day-to-day caregiving, health promotion activities, lifestyle maintenance, and family relationships, according to Healthy Children2, are all complicated and have an impact on health outcomes.
As a result, there is a growing worry about how changes in family arrangements affect each family members health and well-being, as well as their quality of life.
Children who live in single-parent families are more likely to encounter a variety of issues than children who live with married parents, according to research.
Single-parent children have been found to have greater emotional17, behavioral18, and academic problems19 than children who have both biological parents, and they perform worse on a variety of well-being measures than their counterparts in two-parent families.
