Ch. 1 (Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion & Prevention) Flashcards
What is the backbone of nursing?
according to well pop.
health & health promotion
Where have we made progress in health promotion as a country?
- smoking/alcohol
- vaccinations
- nutrition
- car safety/seatbelts
- exercise
(didnt have specifics)
Where have we not made progress in health promotion as a country?
- preventive care
- violence
- opioids
What were the main causes of death in the early mid 1900s?
infections
What were the main causes of mid 1900s and beyond?
chronic illness
What are nursing roles in health promotion and protection?
- advocate (help individuals obtain what they are entitled to receive)
- care manager (prevent duplication fo services/costs)
- consultant (sharing knowledge/expertise)
- deliverer of services
- educator
- healer
- researcher
True or False?:
50% of premature mortality in the United States is due to lifestyle.
True
We have many different nursing roles.
What nursing role helps individuals obtain what they are entitled to receive from the health care system?
advocacy
ex: helping someone complete application for disability
We have many different nursing roles.
What nursing role acts to prevent duplication of services and costs?
care manager
We have many different nursing roles.
What nursing role shares specialized knowledge/expertise to promote health?
consultant
What are the four concepts of health?
- clinical
- role performance
- adaptive
- eudaimonistic (state of good spirit/welfare)
There are four concepts of health.
What concept is defined as health being the absence of disease?
clinical
There are four concepts of health.
What concept is defined as being able to perform your role in society deeming you “healthy”?
role performance
There are four concepts of health.
What concept is defined as “health” being the ability to adjust positively to social, mental and physiological changes?
adaptive
There are four concepts of health.
What concept is defined as the interaction between physical, social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life?
health = wellbeing (holistic)
eudaimonistic
There are three different definitions of health.
What definition of health is described as the absence of disease?
old definition
There are three different definitions of health.
What definition of health is described as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and is experienced in a developmental context?
current definition
There are three different definitions of health.
What definition of health is described as a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease?
WHO definition
What is defined as an imbalance of sort, affecting the mind or body in some internal negative way?
disease
What is defined as the patient knowing their disease and is affected negatively by it externally?
illness
What are the levels of prevention (including the newest level)?
- primary (makes pt stronger, normal education)
- secondary (to find out)
- tertiary (treatment for disease & educating chronic ill pt)
- primordial (policies to prevent risks on a general pop.)
There are four levels of prevention.
What level of prevention is classified as things done before disease, protecting and decreasing the risk of of getting disease?
primary
also includes informing yourself or others (only if
What is defined as the national goals aimed at improving health of the country, focusing on health promotion activities?
healthy people 2030
There are four levels of prevention.
What level of prevention is classified as identifying and detecting disease?
secondary
(to find out)
