Community Conceptual Model
Milio’s framework for prevention provides opportunities to straighten the overall health position of a community. Milio states that the variety of choices made rather than one choice made at a time have an impact in streamlining the health system present in the society.
Nursing process has five stages; assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. In the assessment stage, the nurse collects information about the patient from the family or from the past records. The diagnosis stage, a judgment is made concerning the information collected, after diagnosis, planning is done by making a decision whether the problems are priorities. The fourth stage is implementation where care is provided to the patient and finally the evaluation stage where a decision is made whether the care provided was effectively implemented. Milio’s framework does not consider all these stages but considers that health care decisions are made within the society.
Both nursing process and Milio’s framework for prevention consider provision of health care by prevention of health problems, rehabilitation and evaluation of health care. Milio’s framework assumes that all the individual health care decisions are made within the society; therefore, health is both the responsibility of an individual and the society. The ecological model gives the nurse an opportunity to recognize and comprehend structural barriers to provision of good health care and prevention of illnesses of individuals and the society. This brings about the similarity between the model and the nursing process.
The major difference between Milio’s framework for prevention and nursing process is the focus on groups in the community. The framework deals with the societal setting. Conversely, the nursing process deals with individuals, and ability to perform varied roles. In the framework, there exists a strong link between individual health status and community options. In Milio’s framework, personal resources, such as time and knowledge and community resources are fundamental in the society’s health care, which is not applicable in the nursing process (Elizabeth, Swinburn, Seidell, and Uauy 23).
Obesity among children has been rampant in the society; therefore, this epidemic is ranked as one of the greatest problems facing children in the United States. The Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth came up with policies that focused on prevention plan to decrease the rate of obesity cases. Prevention of obesity involves evidence based public health approach ensuring that the methods used are effective. Therefore in order to curb this problem, the society must be involved, in this case, a lot of changes took place like encouraging and improving the quality of nutrition in family dinners and increasing the time the children spend outside playing (Elizabeth, Swinburn, Seidell, Uauy 45).
Milio came up with the ecological framework that was used in health promotion and prevention of sickness. This framework makes assumptions that personal health is determined by the decisions made in the society; therefore, health becomes the responsibility of an individual and the society. This ecological framework was put into practice enabling the nurse to identify and understand factors that prevent health promotion and prevention of illness of both individuals and communities. The outline in ecological framework includes a very tough bond between the individual health and community decisions (Lippincott 26).
A variety of choices in community health is created by policy decisions, in addition to, individual and societal resources are useful in community care. Milio came up with an ecological framework that is useful in the present day. This framework is very important to the community, since the nurses use the different levels of framework to analyze the importance of community involvement in health issues. The framework has been used to assess the actions of the nurses and the process in the background of a community, this framework was used to encourage cafeterias to make low fat food but with many nutrients, this encouraged supply of healthy foods and therefore discouraged the use of tobacco and other unhealthy substances (Lippincott 34).
Works Cited
Elizabeth Waters, Boyd Swinburn, Jacob Seidell, Ricardo Uauy. Preventing Childhood Obesity:
Evidence Policy and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Print.
Lippincott, Williams. Charting Made Incredibly Easy! New York: Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins, 2012. Print.
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