PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY HEALTH"

Chapter 3 Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and

Population-Focused Nursing Practice

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Health Care Today

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Are we too busy rescuing victims …

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Health Care Today (Cont.)

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…to look upstream where the real problems lie?

– McKinlay, 1979© Penny Leake

Microscopic Approach to Solving Community Health Problems

 Individual, and sometimes family, response to health and illness

 Often emphasizes behavioral responses to individual’s illness or lifestyle patterns

 Nursing interventions are often aimed at modifying individual’s behavior by changing his or her perceptions or belief system

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Macroscopic Approach to Solving Community Health Problems

 Examines interfamily and intercommunity themes in health and illness

 Delineates factors in the population that perpetuate the development of illness or foster the development of health

 Emphasizes social, economic, and environmental precursors of illness

 Nursing interventions may include modifying social or environmental variables

 May involve social or political action

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Theoretical Approaches

 The individual is the focus of change (Microscopic)  Orem’s self-care deficit theory of nursing  The Health Belief Model (HBM)

 The Upstream View: society is the focus of change (Macroscopic)  Milio’s framework for prevention  Critical theoretical perspective

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Variables and Relationships in the Health Belief Model

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Figure 3-1

Critical Interactionism

Nurses can use both an upstream and a downstream approach to address health issues through critical interactionism.

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Critical Interactionism (Cont.)

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Issue Downstream Upstream Approach

Critical Interactionism

Clients: Obesity rates

Individual behavior strategies to reduce weight.

Lifestyle changes

Bariatric surgery nursing care.

Health policy changes.

Vending machines in school with healthier choices.

School lunch program modifications.

Target corporations that profit from obesity.

Individual strategies with weight loss in conjunction with system changes.

Social marketing at both levels.

Critical Interactionism (Cont.)

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Issue Downstream Upstream Approach

Critical Interactionism

Client or Nurse: Workplace violence.

Behavior change at individual level.

Workplace programs to reduce violence.

Address organizational factors that promote workplace violence.

What organizational structures perpetuate workplace violence?

Change needed in knowledge and skills to address issue of workplace violence at both the downstream and upstream level.

Critical Interactionism (Cont.)

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Issue Downstream Upstream Approach

Critical Interactionism

Nurse: Workplace errors

Focus on individual: root cause analysis that has individual as focus.

Change behavior of individual nurse.

Reeducation of nurse with workplace error.

System changes needed.

What system level factors lead to workplace errors?

What organizational structures perpetuate workplace errors?

A dual approach. Providers need changes in knowledge and skills to address root causes of workplace errors that move from individual to system level.

By thinking about the root causes of health problems, we begin to understand the importance of directing nursing efforts toward the antecedents of poor health and lost opportunities.

The Social Determinants of Health topic area within Healthy People 2020 is designed to identify ways to create social and physical environments that promote good health.

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Nursing with the Community Bellack (1998)

 The health agenda originates from within the community; it is not imposed by others.

 A shared vision of health is a challenge because multiple viewpoints are the norm.

 Success depends on …  Listening  Being patient  Providing accurate and scientifically sound information  Respecting the experiences of community members

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