Develop a hypothetical health promotion plan, 3-4 pages in length, addressing a specific health concern for an individual or a group living in the community:
Specific Health Concern: Teen Pregnancy: Teen pregnancy refers to females under the age of 20 becoming pregnant.
Potential Health Impacts: Teen mothers are more likely to experience health,
economic, and emotional challenges. Children of teen mothers may face health,
developmental, and social challenges.
Health Promotion Plan
• After you select a specific health concern or health need from the resource above, next investigate the concern or need and best practices for health improvement, based on supporting evidence.
• Create a scenario as if this project were being completed face-to-face.
• Identify the chosen population and include demographic data (location, lifestyle, age, race, ethnicity, gender, marital status, income, education, employment).
• Describe in detail the characteristics of your chosen hypothetical individual or group for this activity and how they are relevant to this targeted population.
• Discuss why your chosen population is predisposed to this health concern or health need and why they can benefit from a health promotion educational plan.
• Based on the health concern for your hypothetical individual or group, discuss what you would include in the development of a sociogram. Take into consideration possible social, economic, cultural, genetic, and/or lifestyle behaviors that may have an impact on health as you develop your educational plan in your first assessment. You will take this information into consideration when you develop your educational plan in your fourth assessment.
• Identify their potential learning needs. Collaborate with the individual or group on SMART goals that will be used to evaluate the educational session.
• Identify the individual or group’s current behaviors and outline clear expectations for this educational session and offer suggestions for how the individual or group needs can be met.
• Health promotion goals need to be clear, measurable, and appropriate for this activity. Consider goals that will foster behavior changes and lead to the desired outcomes.
Document Format and Length
Your health promotion plan should be 3–4 pages in length.
Supporting Evidence
Support your health promotion plan with peer-reviewed articles, course study resources, and Healthy People 2030 resources. Cite at least three credible sources published within the past five years, using APA format.
Graded Requirements
The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
• Analyze the health concern that is the focus of your health promotion plan.
o Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.
• Explain why a health concern is important for health promotion within a specific population.
o Examine current population health data.
o Consider the factors that contribute to health, health disparities, and access to services.
• Explain the importance of establishing agreed-upon health goals in collaboration with hypothetical participants.
• Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
o Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
o Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.
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Health Promotion Plan: Reducing Teen Pregnancy Rates in Suburban Communities
Target Population: Female teenagers, ages 15-19, from middle to upper-middle class families living in suburban communities in the Southeastern United States.
Rationale: Teen pregnancy rates have declined over the past few decades but remain high in certain populations. Suburban communities have seen less of a decline compared to urban communities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021). Teens from middle and upper-middle class families in the suburbs may have parents who are less likely to discuss reproductive health openly. Access to contraceptives may also be limited due to transportation challenges.
Goals:
Increase parent-teen communication about relationships, reproductive health, and pregnancy prevention
Improve access to confidential reproductive healthcare
Promote consistent and correct use of contraceptives among sexually active teens
Delay onset of sexual activity among teens who are not yet sexually active
Key Intervention Strategies:
Host parent workshops at local high schools to educate parents on talking with teens about relationships and sexual health
Provide training for school nurses on reproductive health counseling and resources
Partner with local public health department to offer confidential testing for STIs and pregnancy
Work with school administrators to make condoms available in school-based health clinics
Implement evidence-based sexual health curriculum in 9th grade health classes, focused on healthy relationships, abstinence, and contraceptive use
Evaluation Plan:
Pre- and post-surveys will assess parent-teen communication, parental attitudes, and teen knowledge/attitudes
School-based health clinic will track utilization of services and contraceptives provided
Public health department will monitor STI and pregnancy rates annually
The goal will be a 10% reduction in teen pregnancy rates among 15-19 year old females in the community within 2 years. Achieving this goal will improve high school completion rates, reduce economic hardship, and promote better health outcomes for teen parents and their children.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Trends in teen pregnancy and childbearing. https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm
Goesling, B., Colman, S., Trenholm, C., Terzian, M., & Moore, K. (2014). Programs to reduce teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and associated sexual risk behaviors: A systematic review. Journal of Adolescent Health, 54(5), 499-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.12.004
Secor-Turner, M., Randall, B. A., Christensen, K., Jacobson, A., & Loyola Meléndez, M. (2017). Implementing community-based comprehensive sexuality education with high-risk youth in a conservative environment: Lessons learned. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 14(4), 418-428. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-016-0280-0
