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Helping students to self-care and enhance their health-promotion skills

28 November 2019
Professional
02 July 2019
Volume 28 · Issue 13

We read Anne Mills' article exploring the concept of health responsibility in nursing with great interest (Mills, 2019). As final year medical students at Imperial College London, we feel strongly that health promotion is an invaluable part of health care. The way in which it is incorporated and taught during training, for both nurses and doctors, is therefore of the utmost importance and we wanted to share our thoughts on how this could be changed.

Evidence shows that the workplace environment and working conditions greatly affect doctors' mental health (Haoka et al, 2010). This is echoed in Mills' article, where she states that lack of breaks or availability of nutritious food can lead to a working environment that causes stress. As mental health deteriorates in health professionals, this is reflected in poor lifestyle choices and, ultimately, will have an impact on the individual's health outcome. Haoka et al (2010) also found that mental health is affected by attitudes towards working conditions.

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