Health Promotion Throughout The Life Span Ch. 1

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A person's measure of health is his or her ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and physiological change. Illness occurs when the person fails to adapt or becomes maladaptive to these changes.

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Adaptive model of health

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Research that is done to directly affect clinical practice.

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Applied research

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A planning approach that focuses the family and the providers on the building blocks for their future, given the realities of the present.

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Asset Planning

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The absence, and illness by the conspicuous presence, of signs and symptoms of disease. It is the conventional model of the discipline of medicine.

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clinical model of health

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Care that is provided in health care settings in the community.

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Community-based care

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The ability to give care to an individual that demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the underlying personal and cultural reality of the individual by identifying and using cultural norms, values, and communication and time patterns in collecting and interpreting assessment information.

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Cultural competence

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The failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to adequately counteract stimuli and stresses, resulting in functional or structural disturbances.

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Disease

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A more recent and comprehensive developmental approach useful for promoting health at individual, family, community, and societal levels.

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Ecological model of health

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The ability to understand another's feelings without losing personal identity and perspective.

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Empathy

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The study of health and disease in society.

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Epidemiology

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The assumption that an individual's own perspective is correct and shared by others.

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Ethnocentrism

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Emphasizes the interactions between physical, social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment that contribute to goal attainment and create meaning. Illness is reflected by a denervation or languishing, a lack of involvement with life.

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Eudaimonistic model of health

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The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individuals.

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Evidence-based practice

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The ability to function cognitively and physically.

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Functional health

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A state of physical, mental, and social functioning that realizes the potential of which a person is capable.

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Health

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Refers to the wide variations in health services and health status among certain population groups. Examples are the growing problems of access to medical care; differences in treatment based on race, gender, and ability to pay; and related issues such as urban versus rural health, insurance coverage, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for care, and satisfaction with service delivery.

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Health disparities

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The science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. The process of advocating health to enhance the probability that person (individual, family, and community), private (professional and business), and public (federal, state, and local government) support of positive health practices will become a societal norm.

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Health promotion

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Healthy People 2010 The latest edition of the Healthy People documents, the U.S. federal government's health-promotion initiative, which sets out 28 specific areas for health improvement in 467 objectives.

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Healthy People 2010

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A sense of well-being, life satisfaction, and quality of life.

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High-level wellness

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social construct in which people are in an imbalanced, unsustainable relationship with their environment and are failing in the ability to survive and to create a higher quality of life.

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Illness

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Primary, secondary, and tertiary means to avert the development of disease in the future.

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Levels of prevention

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Research studies that describe phenomena or define the historical nature, cultural relevance, or philosophical basis of aspects of nursing care.

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Qualitative studies

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Characteristics, conditions, and situations of life that compose the whole of a person's living. People strive for a positive quality of life. Illness or disease can diminish one's quality of life.

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Quality of life

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Research studies that describe situations, correlate different variables related to care, and test causal relationships between variables related to nursing care.

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Quantitative studies

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A devaluing of the beliefs, values, and customs of others.

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Racism

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Defines health in terms of individuals' ability to perform social roles. Illness would be the failure to perform roles at the level of others in society.

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Role performance model of health

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State of being well. The status of one's condition of living. The definition of health is related to one's state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

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Well-being

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A state involving progression toward a higher level of functioning, an open-ended and ever-expanding future, with its challenge of fuller potential and the integration of the whole being. A positive state in which incremental increases in health can be made beyond the midpoint. These increases involve improved physical and mental health states.

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Wellness

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A paradigm that is a bipolar, interactive portrayal of health and illness in myriad configurations, ranging from high-level wellness to depletion of health (death).

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Wellness-Illness Continuum