Interventions to Improve Nutritional Status

Interventions to Improve Nutritional Status: The Prevention & Management of Chronic Diseases in Adults Chamberlain College NR449 Evidence Based Practice Spring Session This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :48:33 GMT -06:00 This study resource was shared via CourseH INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE NUTRITIONAL STATUS 2 2 The Prevention & Management of Chronic Diseases in Adults Introduction Health promotion & disease prevention are a priority concern when providing care for the adult population to help control the prevalence of chronic illness & to aid in the management of symptoms. While this approach does not replace the medical care of illness, this attitude has the potential to reduce the incidence of chronic disease within our growing population of aging adults. Article Search To locate relevant evidence for this topic, it is important to identify recently published articles with information that support current health promotion initiatives. It was imperative to identify scholarly academic sources with publications from within the past 10 years to ensure that the information is up-to-date & applicable to the focus of this paper. I used the search terms “health promotion”, “disease prevention”, & “management of chronic disease” in the PubMed