Population Health Intervention Project: Annotated Bibliography Assignment
NURS 503

Population Health Intervention Project: Annotated Bibliography

Brownson. (2018). Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Public Health: Reconciling the Pulls of Practice and the Push of Research. Annual Review of Public Health, 39(1), 27–53. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-014746

Brownson (2018) discuss the reconciliation of the push of research and pulls of practices in applying evidence-based public health interventions. They stipulate that time is an essential factor in implementing evident-based public health principles. In essence, they are bridging the gap between new knowledge discoveries and applying the knowledge to healthcare practices. As such, both the physician professionals and the scientists should work together to avoid time delays in applying the evident-based knowledge regarding specific healthcare issues. However, there is a concern of having sufficient capacity in many public health organizations ranging from resources availability, a workforce of planning delivery and evaluation of preventing dose, and structures to support the implementation process. Also, more literature talks about the importance of applying EBPH, but they lack cohesive clarity of the evidence definition, ways to allocate them, and when they should be applied.

Ebert. (2018). Internet- and Mobile-Based Psychological Interventions: Applications, Efficacy, and Potential for Improving Mental Health. European Psychologist., 23(2), 167–187. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000318.

According to (Ebert 2018), health care organizations should apply and adopt advanced technology to improve and strengthen Public Health Interventions. Notably, the authors focus on the mental health issues that many typically go unattended. They use the example of utilizing the internet and mobile-based psychological interventions to improve global mental health, which has become an essential subject to international healthcare organizations. Many patients suffering from mental health issues tend to remain untreated due to traditional-based interventions, which many use a face-to-face concept. Many patients will lack the confidence of facing therapists due to factors such as traumas and anxiety and limited availability of therapists’ offices. On the contrary, the application of mobile-based psychological interventions will enable such patients to have online therapist services right at their comfort zones.

Giustini. (2018). Effective uses of social media in public health and medicine: a systematic review of systematic reviews. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics., 10(2), e215–e215. https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v10i2.8270

Giustini (2018) acknowledged to their audience how effective use of social media in healthcare organizations could enhance the capabilities of public health intervention processes. They claim that the use of social media, especially in the form of systematic reviews, has grown its concerns in recent past years. Social media platforms are the most communication channel to pass information and awareness of healthcare concerns and feedbacks since they are applicable in many parts of the globe. Through the government’s help, the healthcare departments can pass vital information regarding health crisis concerns and obtain public feedback from the same channel when conducting public health interventions. However, there is little comprehensive synthesis related to this article’s context that other authors have conducted to this date. Therefore, little has been told about the implications and impact of the concept to support the authors’ claim.

Griffiths, S. E., Parsons, J., Naughton, F., Fulton, E. A., Tombor, I., & Brown, K. E. (2018). Are digital interventions for smoking cessation in pregnancy effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, 12(4), 333-356.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0390-6

Griffiths et al., 2018 focus on the implications of effective public health intervention to curb some healthcare concerns in societies. Remarkably, they focus their attention on smoking cessation interventions in pregnant women. The question that drives the authors’ research study is whether the digital intervention measures can significantly impact smoking cessation in pregnant women. Digital intervention measures publication of counseling content on the internet or having direct consultation through online platforms. Furthermore, it can help the counselors and physicians reach a massive population of people who seek consultation. However, there is a question regarding the individuals living in countries with limited access to the internet. The approach will only be helpful to pregnant women with easy access to the internet, thereby ignoring those in poor geographical locations.

Hagger, M. S., & Weed, M. (2019). DEBATE: Do interventions based on behavioral theory work in the real world? International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-019-0795-4

According to (Hagger & Weed, 2019), interventions that follow behavioral theory are applied in real-world scenarios. The authors support their claim by stating that significant evidence supports the effectiveness and efficacy of behavioral-based interventions theory. Nevertheless, there is relative scarcity in the large-scale effectiveness trials within available networks. Besides, there is the need to increase more to leverage insights from the implementation science. Moreover, the population levels related to health outcomes and linked behaviors are somehow static despite implementing interventions related to the behavioral theory. The authors’ work is limited in that there is no evidence demonstrating the actual effectiveness of behavioral theory interventions in real-world situations. They conclude by contending that behavioral-based theory interventions are effective, particularly in changing societal-level behavior in the context of the real world.

Hartley. (2020). Public Health Interventions for COVID-19. JAMA?: the Journal of the American Medical Association., 323(19). https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.5910

Hartley (2020) discusses the necessity of documenting emerging evidence and implications of any public health crisis that might evolve. Based on their reason, this is to help health care organizations to curb the impacts of the future public health crisis. They also stipulate that concept has been proposed in ages whereby leading healthcare influential and scientist professionals have warned against the possible implications of emerging infections and the global pandemic specter. The authors use the example of the most recent Covid-19 pandemic, which caught the international health care organizations unaware. The current pandemic has sent warnings and the need to consider the evolution of global public health by applying an evident-based contingency plan. However, the weakness of the article is that it has not mentioned the need to separate healthcare affairs from the political arena. Instead of bringing forward the debate as to should be blamed for the pandemic emergence, the healthcare professionals should avoid engaging in such conversations and research on how such healthcare crisis can be prevented in the future.

McIsaac, J. D., Penney, T. L., Storey, K. E., Sigfridson, L., Cunningham, J., Kuhle, S., & Kirk, S. F. L. (2018). Integrated knowledge translation in population health intervention research: a case study of implementation and outcomes from a school-based project. Health Research Policy and Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0351-8

McIsaac et al., 2018 focus on the need to apply the model of Integrated Knowledge Translation in researches regarding health intervention researches of a particular geographical population. In particular, they describe how the approach can be utilized in schools and institutions related to healthcare to make the learners impact the formation of effective and practical policy and nursing practices. Although there is not much literature about the implementation process and the outcomes of the approach, the authors conclude by stating the challenges of maintaining its engagement of researchers and knowledge users. This is due to the different role ambiguity and priorities that contradict one another. Nevertheless, additional investment, research, and recognition can improve the process’s implementation process. As a result, this will help to bridge the gap between research, policy, and practices.

Nash, D.B., Skoufalos, A., Fabius, R.J., Oglesby, W.H. (2021). Population health: Creating a culture of wellness (3rd ed.). Jones and Bartlett Learning.

The focus will zero in on the level of satisfaction that the patients express after receiving nursing services. This indicator is critical to healthcare quality since the patients are the common denominator to all the new nurses seeking to achieve in their profession. It is critically important to monitor this indicator because it is the core of all the health professionals who strive to attain standard nursing care. New nurses need to understand they will be taking up the burden of ensuring the patients are satisfied with how they treat them because patient protection is paramount in offering the best quality health care. Much of the defining patient safety and practices that prevent harm have focused on the adverse outcomes of care, such as morbidity, patients fall, and injuries occurring during nursing care. The new nurses must appreciate that surveillance and integration reduce adverse effects, increasing patient satisfaction while upgrading the standard of care.

Schaffer. (2021). Twenty years with the public health intervention wheel: Evidence for practice. Public Health Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12941

Schaffer, (2021). Relate public health interventions to the application for practices in public health nursing. The authors emphasize the importance of training and guiding nurses on public health nursing practice in healthcare institutions. They use an example of the Minnesota Department of Health which initiated the Public Health Interventions by distributing the manuals to all of its public health departments in 2001. The authors also illustrate the implications of applying the Public Health Interventions in the healthcare organization. They mention numerous implications that the Minnesota Department has experienced since its implementation in 2001, one of them being changes in the political and socio-economic landscape. According to the authors, the Public Health Intervention is beneficial to nursing practices as it enables nurses to effectively address social determinants related to health issues, prevention, and the health status of a population within a community setting. One of the article’s limitations is that it misses the negative implications of applying the Public Health Intervention to the healthcare entity.