FHP a method used in the nursing process to provide a comprehensive and valuable framework for the nursing assessment of the patient, family or community as a whole.
GFHP includes eleven categories that are a standardized and systematic approach to data collection.
This method encompasses objective and subjective data. This data assist in identifying the needs, goals, values of family, patient or community.
Those patterns may be applied as to the client as to a public health perspective to assess community as a whole and provide an overview of health practices and health status that are used to reach the necessary level of health and wellness of community (Functional health patterns).
By applying GFHP for community assessment,