Concept of Man Flashcards
What is a Man?
It is an individual human
A bipedal primate mammal
A man is capable of doing abstract reasoning.
3 Types of Individual Health
Person’s total character
Person’s self-identity
Person’s perception
encompasses behaviors, emotional state,
attitudes, values, motives, abilities, habits and appearances.
Person’s total character
encompasses perception of self as a separate
and distinct entity alone and in interactions with others.
Person’s self-identity
encompass the way the person interprets the
environment or situation, directly affecting how he or she thinks, feels, and acts in any given situation.
Person’s perception
What is the concept of individuality?
Each individual is unique who is different from every other human being
Each individual has different sets of genetics
Each individual has different experience and environment
In health care, we need to focus on the client within both a total care and an individualized care context.
What are the 4 attributes of human being?
- The capacity to think or conceptualize on the abstract level
- Family formation
- The tendency to seek and maintain
territory - The ability to use verbal symbols as
language, a means of developing and
maintaining culture.
14 fundamental needs of man
- Breath
- Food and drink
- Elimination
- Move and maintain posture
- Sleep and rest
- Clothing
- Maintaining internal environment
- Keeping self clean
- Avoiding Danger
- Communication
- Worship
- Work
- Play
- Learn
CHARACTERISTICS OF BASIC HUMAN NEEDS
- People meet their own needs relative to their own priorities.
- Although basic needs must be met, some needs can be deferred.
- Failure to meet needs results in one or more homeostatic imbalances, which
can eventually result in illness. - A need can make itself felt by either external or internal stimuli.
- A person who perceives a need can respond in several ways to meet it.
- Needs are interrelated.
