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PHN Interventions
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- Actions that PHNs take on behalf of individuals, families, systems, communities to improve or protect health status
- Defined by type of intervention and level of practice
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Components of PHN Intervention Model
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- Population-based
- Intervene at all 3 levels of practice: Individual, community, or systems-focused
- 17 interventions
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What are the components of population-based practice?
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- Focused on entire population
- Grounded in assessment of population’s health status
- Considers broad determinants of health
- Emphasizes all levels of prevention (especially primary)
- Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals, and families
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What is the difference btw population of interest and population at risk?
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- Population of interest: group of people you want to know more about (ex. senior citizens)
- Population at risk: group of people exposed to or with a certain factor (ex. senior citizens with HTN)
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What are the 3 levels of PHN practice?
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- Individual-focused: changes in knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors of individuals
- Community-focused: changes in community norms, attitudes, awareness, practices, behavior
- Systems-focused: changes in organizations, policies, laws, power structures (often more effective and long-lasting way to impact population health)
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Exceptions to 3 levels of practice
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- Case finding: only occurs at individual level
- Community organizing and coalition building: cannot occur at the individual level, only at community/system level
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Structure of Minnesota Wheel
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- Grouped together by similarities
- Right side: primarily individual, families, groups
- Left side: primarily systems and communities
- Usually work in more than one wedge at a time
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Purple section of wheel
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- Surveillance: describe and monitor health events
- Investigation: gather and analyze data regarding threats to the health of pop
- Outreach: locates pop of interest or risk
- Screening: identify individuals with risk factors or disease conditions
- CASE FINDING OCCURS at individual level of these
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Green section of wheel
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- Referral and follow up: assist people to identify and access necessary resources
- Case management: optimize self-care capabilities of individuals and families
- Delegated functions: direct care tasks carried out by RN
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Blue section of wheel
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- Health teaching: communicates facts, ideas, skills
- Counseling: establishes interpersonal relationship at the emotional level
- Consultation: seeks information and generates optimal solutions to perceived problems
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Orange section of wheel
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- Collaboration: commits 2+ persons/organizations to achieve a common goal
- Coalition building: develops alliances among organizations for a common purpose
- Community organizing: helps community groups to identify common problems and meet goals
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Yellow section of wheel
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- Advocacy: pleads someone’s cause or act on someone’s behalf, with a focus on developing the capacity or community/system/individual/family
- Social marketing: utilizes commercial marketing principles to influence knowledge and practices
- Policy development and enforcement: places health issues on agendas, results in laws and compels others to comply with them
