Health Promotions and Family
Introduction
The Ottawa Charter of World Health Organization formulated in 1986 defines health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.” Examples of health promotions include promoting breastfeeding, child and family nutrition, and physical activity, among others. Family, on the other hand, is a basic social unit made of parents and children often considered as a group despite dwelling together or no (Sodik & Nzilibili, 2017). The goal of this essay is to define family from an interview conducted on two people bringing out their perception of functional versus dysfunctional family and describe three actions a nurse can take to promote growth and well-being in the LGBT family.
| Name of Interviewer | Definition of Family | Similarities between Functional and dysfunctional family | Differences between Functional and dysfunctional family |
| Interviewer A | A specific group of people consisting of partners, children, cousins, grandparents, uncles, and aunts. | Regardless of the hectic circumstances associated with the dysfunction family, it is related to similar to the functional family as the members are related by blood. | Functional family allows people to define themselves as well as appreciating their differences (Allen & Moore, 2017). Dysfunctional family composes of continuous conflict, mischievous, or cases of child neglect behaviors. |
| Interviewer B | A social group characterized by an ordinary residence, mainly reproduction and economic cooperation. | The two are descendants of a common ancestor. | The family composes of first marriage conjugal couples with biological children. The dysfunctional family generally indicates signs of perfectionism, conditional love, and poor communication. |
On the other hand, a nurse can promote the growth and well-being of the LGBT family by recognizing their gender and sexual diversity, which allows collective identity and necessitate health promotion policy (Zeeman, Aranda, Sherriff & Cocking, 2017). Besides, promoting growth and well-being for the LGBT family comes with strengthening the public health policy, which advocates for equity and equality for all types of people, including minorities. Interacting with the LGBT family and informing them how it is okay to be different is crucial.