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Health Promotion I was my first introduction to the world of Health Promotion. While I do see the benefits, I personally didn't have much experience with health promotion projects or initiatives in my profession as a healthcare worker. When I was tasked with creating an ePortfolio in the first course of the Masters of Health Studies program, I put a lot of time into the small details and design of the website. I quickly learned how much I enjoyed putting my credentials in this format, while also demonstrating my creative side (which I don't often get a chance to do in my day to day life). I feel as though my ePortfolio is a great demonstration of my skills, knowledge, and credentials. Health Promotion I encouraged me to further develop my ePortfolio with the tools and frameworks that were used throughout the course. Upon completing the final submission of the course, I was able to reflect on the artefacts and blog posts to not only see what I learned over the 13 weeks, but also to see how much progress was made in my understanding of the benefits of health promotion to a community. I also posted some non-required information on the ePortfolio to demonstrated all the work that was done throughout the course, such as how to complete a logic model, to how a health promotion framework could be used in my health promotion problem of focus, to creating SMART goals. For someone who is unfamiliar with health promotion or the course, the content that is posted would provide a good idea of an introduction to health promotion as well as the benefits of implementing my health promotion problem, which was the integration of Telehealth medicine to provide Ontarian with better access to primary care.
For my chosen health problem, distance and access to primary care is the root to the difficulty in many Ontarians being able to obtain health care. This often leads Ontarians to resorting to visiting Emergency Departments, resulting in increasing the burden on hospitals. Additionally, it could result in exacerbation of chronic disease progression, which would require more expensive and invasive treatments. Both the RE-AIM framework and Social-Ecological Model would be best to address this health problem as they allow for the assessment of the individual and community factors which inhibit individuals from being able to access primary care, while also identifying and creating a plan to adopt, implement, and maintain Telehealth in communities to ensure a successful execution of the program.
The Health Promotion I class identified a number of health promotion frameworks/models/theories, which were helpful in devising a plan to implement Telehealth in Ontario. I find that there are parts to different models that can be used for various stages of an implementation of a program, so knowing when to utilize what framework will be something I hope to better understand in my learnings in Health Promotion II. By developing a better understanding on when to utilize what framework/model/theory to adequately identify gaps in a potential plan or ensuring a program is properly executed will be areas in which I am hoping Health Promotion II will identify and address. This will allow me to have a better understanding and approach to successfully implementing a health promotion plan.
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