The term health can be categorized as either mental or physical. Mental health refers to a patient’s cognitive, psychological, and intellectual state of being. Physical health refers to a patient’s physiological and biological state of being. A patient’s health determines how they go on with their lives. There are different levels and dimensions to health, with each encompassing its own array of benefits and detriments. Society may judge health by physical appearance. For example, being overweight might suggest laziness and overeating without adequate exercise. It is uncommon to hear someone refer to being overweight as a result of hypothyroidism. Perhaps a patient suffers from Cushing syndrome and is more prevalent to weight gain.
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Often patients are dealing with a host of information from diagnosis to treatment decisions. Being involved in their plan of care, patients need to be able to have access to different health care services, find and assess information, understand test results, and how to calculate dosages. To carry out these actions requires a patient to be literate in terms of (1) visually (understand visual information), (2) computer (operating a computer or electronic device), (3) facts (determining relevance of information), and (4) mathematically (calculations/numerical assessment) (Osborn et al., …show more content…
The amount of information being shared and retrieved increases a potential breach in provider/ patient confidentiality. There is a growing concern that the accessibility of information is being too dependent of electronic means. Thought time saving, and generally less cost effective, it is a frontier in the health care world which is still in its growing stages as technology advances and information is modified. On the basic level, a patient needs to be able to understand how the health care system works, the different types of care, and ways to navigate and communicate appropriately with providers, as well as, have an understanding of their own mental and physical
Often patients are dealing with a host of information from diagnosis to treatment decisions. Being involved in their plan of care, patients need to be able to have access to different health care services, find and assess information, understand test results, and how to calculate dosages. To carry out these actions requires a patient to be literate in terms of (1) visually (understand visual information), (2) computer (operating a computer or electronic device), (3) facts (determining relevance of information), and (4) mathematically (calculations/numerical assessment) (Osborn et al., …show more content…
The amount of information being shared and retrieved increases a potential breach in provider/ patient confidentiality. There is a growing concern that the accessibility of information is being too dependent of electronic means. Thought time saving, and generally less cost effective, it is a frontier in the health care world which is still in its growing stages as technology advances and information is modified. On the basic level, a patient needs to be able to understand how the health care system works, the different types of care, and ways to navigate and communicate appropriately with providers, as well as, have an understanding of their own mental and physical