QUESTION 1
Chronic diseases such as “coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and asthma are the nation’s leading cause of illness and death” (Jonas & Kovner, 2018, p. 152). These diseases pose serious burdens on the health systems and on society. Changing these figures will require that we engage patients, families, communities, and providers in order to impact behavior and health. According to Jonas & Kovner (2018) changing health-related behavior and provider-related behavior represents a prime target for improving national health goals and healthcare” (p. 157). Nursing needs to be engaged in helping to reduce the incidence of chronic diseases and illnesses.
If you were designing a mix of interventions to improve national health goals, what one behavior-related intervention(education on eating habts) and one provider-related intervention (described in the text-book) would you choose and explain your rationale(s) for choosing each. Describe what the impact or outcome of these interventions would be. If you were designing a mix of interventions to improve national health goals, which one behavior-related intervention (education on eating habits) and which one provider-related intervention (described in the textbook) would you choose, and why? Describe how these interventions will have an impact or result.
QUESTION 2
Each community bears the burden of disease on its fiscal resources.
Choose ONE of the behavioral risk factors (chapter 7 table 7.1) and discuss the following:((diet and nutrion as risk factor)
• Describe the behavioral risk factor.
• Identify and discuss two determinants of health (social, economic, or physical).
• Explain how educational status, economic status (poverty or wealth), and health status are related.

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