Introduction
Over the last years, healthcare representatives have realized that the disease-oriented approaches to disease prevention would unlikely be beneficial in the future. Hence, various researchers decided to center the medical system on disease prevention and overall human wellness instead of paying attention exclusively to the treatment process. The purpose of this paper is to define the ways of the reform’s further development as well as to define the role of nursing in such a process.
Main Objectives
The primary purpose of the disease prevention approach is to establish efficient ways of organizing the environment with lower risks of illness development. Some of the most crucial factors that encourage diseases’ emergence are poor diet, high stress level, and fatigue. People with low-income rates and those who have some bad habits, such as smoking or drinking, usually have higher risks of health problems in the future.
Raising public awareness on the topic of disease prevention is one of the key tools in terms of creating a healthy community. Various governmental and voluntary organizations can be considered to be one of the best ways of reform promotion. For instance, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one of the most notorious and largest public health institutes, which deals with informing the residents how to prevent almost any type of disease (“Mission, Role & Pledge,” 2019). In the context of disease prevention reform, the role of nursing is difficult to overestimate. One of the major responsibilities of a nurse in such a situation is to maintain simple human communication so that people could pay attention to the factors that harm their health (Parsons, Slattum, & Bleich, 2019). Hence, nurses serve as an intermediary between healthcare specialists that examine the issue of health prevention and people who need a simplified explanation of how to act in order to remain healthy.
References
Mission, Role & Pledge. (2019). Web.
Parsons, P. L., Slattum, P. W., & Bleich, M. (2019). Mainstreaming health and wellness: The RHWP innovation model to complement primary care. Nursing Forum, 54(2), 263-269.