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NUR 101 Health

  • Health WHO (1947) pg 299
  • Answer • "State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the

absence of disease or infirmity", WHO (1947) • Free from symptoms; feel good -Idealized organization BOOK The World Health Organization (WHO) takes a more HOLISTIC view of health. Its constitution defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 1948). This definition reflects concern for the individual as a total person functioning physically, psychologically, and socially

  • Health Nightingale 18960's pg 299
  • Answer "state of being well; using every power ...to fullest extent..."

Epidemiologist methods of modern nursing BOOK Florence Nightingale defined health as a state of being well and using every power the individual possesses to the fullest extent (Nightingale,

1860/1969).

  • Health Talcott Parsons, 1951 pg 299
  • Answer "ability to """"maintain normal"""" roles"

  • EX The ability to still work BOOK
  • Health has also been defined in terms of role and performance. Talcott Parsons (1951), an 1 / 3

eminent American sociologist and creator of the concept "sick role," conceptualized health as the ability to maintain normal roles.

  • Health Pres. Commission, 1953
  • Answer "adjustment", not a condition

Answer "process", "adapting" physically, and socially ( to change physically emotionallyy mentally socially)

BOOK IN 1953, the (United States) President's Commission on Health Needs of the Nation made the following statement

about health

Answer "Health is not a condition; it is an adjustment. It is not a state but a process. The process adapts the individual not only to our physical but also our social environments"

  • Health American Nurses Assoc, 1980, 2004
  • Answer "dynamic state", "potential real- ized"; "experience"; "wellness/illness, not disease or injury" BOOK In 1980, the American Nurses Association (ANA) defined health in its social policy statement as "a dynamic state of being in which the developmental and behavioral potential of an individual is realized to the fullest extent possible"definition, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes striving toward optimal functioning. In 2004, the ANA also stated that health was "An experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness, and may occur in the presence or absence of disease or injury"

  • The Individual
  • Answer 2 / 3

A Unified Being Who Strives to

Maintain Homeostasis

Answer • Biophysical Physiological

• Psychological ------- Psycho socio cultural • Environmental • Developmental • Socio-cultural

a person is affected by all of these things and each category affects each other

  • Components of Wellness ( Hamrick) PG 300
  • Answer

  • Componets) Re-
  • late too Social-----------------------Psycho socio cultural Environmental ---------- Physical Environment Occupational ------------- Psycho socio cultural IntellectualDevelopment/Education Spiritual-------------------- Psycho socio cultural Physical Physiology Empotional --------------- Psycho socio cultural

  • ***Wellness and Well-Being pg 300
  • Answer Wellness is a state of well-being. Basic aspects of wellness include self-responsibility; an ultimate goal; a dynamic, growing process; daily decision making in the areas of nutrition, stress management, physical fitness, preventive health care, and emotional health; and, most importantly, the whole being of the individual

  • ****Hammrick Components of wellness (book) Pg 300
  • Answer Anspaugh, Hamrick, and Rosato (2009) propose seven

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NUR 101 Health 1. Health WHO pg 299 Answer • "State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity", WHO • Free from symptoms; feel good ...

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