Intro (determinants, nursing, wellness, health promotion, client, health perception/management, and values & beliefs) Flashcards
What are a UNB’s 5 abilities within the program
- Knowledge and its application
- Communication
- Critical thinking/skills of analysis
- Professional identity and ethics
- Social justice and effective citizenship
What are the 4 metaparadigms?
- Client and person
- Environment
- Health
- Nursing
What is a metaparadigm?
broadest concepts of collective body of knowledge that provide framework
How does WHO (1947) define health?
“A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmary.”
How does WHO revised definition of health look (1984)?
“Health is viewed as the extent to which an individual or group is able to on the one hand realize aspirations and satisfy needs, and on the other hand to change and cope with environment. Health is therefore seems as RESOURCE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE, NOT THE OBJECTIVE OF LIVING; it is a POSITIVE CONCEPT that emphasizes SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RESOURCES as well as PHYSICAL CAPACITY.”
What is the main change that the WHO does to their definition of health?
They add in the ENVIRONMENTAL aspects that effect health and SELF FULFILMENT
What is the difference between disease and illness?
- Disease is objective
- Illness is subjective
(no single definition of health; some uses terms interchangeably and others differently)
What is the difference between wellness and health?
- Health is objective
- Wellness is subjective
(can be used interchangeably)
Health promotion and disease prevention take _________ __ ______ into consideration.
determinants of health
What are the 12 determinants of health?
- Income/social status/food security
- Social support networks
- Education/literacy
- Employment/work conditions
- Physical environment/ housing
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Healthy childhood development
- Biology and genetic endowment
- Health services
- Gender
- Culture
- Social environment
Expand on the determinant of health, income and social status.
income has the biggest impact because finances affect other determinants of health (lack of material, more stress, less time)
Expand on the determinant of health, social support networks.
social support affects health through practice, emotional, information and affirmational support
Expand on the determinant of health, education and literacy.
education affects other determinants (if unable to read labels instruction etc., or hire ability)
Expand of the determinants of health, employment and work conditions.
affect social, mental and physical health
Expand on the determinant of health, physical environment and housing.
housing, indoor air quality, and community planning are important (environmental factors)
Expand on the determinant of health, personal health practice and coping.
effective coping skills help people face challenges without resorting to risky behaviour