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Healthy Lifestyles Assessment – Hannah Case Study
The CHW is doing a home visit with Hannah, who is 35 years old, is overweight (40 pounds), smokes one pack a day and has three children. Hannah lives with her parents and needs to rely on her mother who insists on doing all of the cooking for the family. Hannah is a nurse’s aide and works many extra shifts to make as much money as she can. She has many bills and also needs to help support her parents.
Now write a response of at least a paragraph according to the instructions below:
The goal of the visit today is to work with Hannah on ways for her to balance her life, manage her stress, and work on her weight and smoking.
Identify three goals that can be set with Hannah and 1 health promotion strategy for each that can realistically be implemented.
Consider the cultural implications as well as the barriers that Hannah will face making the needed changes.
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Various goals, as well as health promotion strategies, can be set by Hannah to be realistically implemented. One of these goals coming up with the ways Hannah should use to balance her life. To balance Hannah’s life, the one health promotion that can be utilized is health communication. In this strategy, communication strategies will be used to inform and influence her decisions to enhance her health. Communication with Community Health Workers can bring help to some of the burdens Hannah is facing.
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