The purpose of this paper is to utilize Pender's Health Promotion Model as a framework for discussing interventions for a 71-year-old white female suffering from Type II Diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The conceptual framework, Pender's Health Promotion Model, is presented in the first section. This framework is then used in following sections (3-5) to discuss interventions.
Pender's Health Promotion Model identifies behaviors for enhancing health.á For this model, perceptual factors are identified: health importance or the perceived value of health to one's life and daily functioning; perceived control of health or the perceived ability to control health internally, externally, and by chance; perceived self-efficacy or the perceived ability to take part in action which brings a desired outcome; personal health definition or what health means to a client; perceived health status or how one views their own health; perceived benefits of behaviors which promote health or perceptions of positive outcomes which may occur from health-promoting behaviors; and perceived barriers to behaviors which promote health or what things hinder health-promoting behaviors. These perceptual factors are modified by demographics (age, sex, race, location), biologic factors (height, weight, fat distribution), interpersonal factors (family and health care provider interactions), situational factors (societal factors which affect the availability of health-promoting activities), behavioral factors (skills and knowledge), and cues to action (internal feelings and external cues)á(Pender, 2002).
Assumptions of the Health Promotion Model (HPM) include the following, individuals: attempt to create living conditions to express their unique human health potential; have the capacity for self-awareness and assessment of competencies; value positive growth and attempt to achieve balance between change and stability; seek to actively regulate thei...