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Health WHO (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION)

State of complete physical mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Pender Murdough and Parsons definition of health

Actualization of inherent and acquired human potential through goal-directed behavior, competent self care, and satisfying relationships with others well adjusting are made as needed to maintain structural integrity and harmony with the environment.

Health belief model

Address is the relationship between a person's beliefs and behavior

Holistic health model

Attempts to create conditions that promote optimal health. In this model nurses uses nursing process consider patients to be the ultimate experts on concerning their own house and respect patient subjective experience is as relevant in maintaining health or assisting in healing

Internal variables

Include a person's developmental stage and intellectual background, perception of functioning, and emotional and spiritual factors

Internal variables

Developmental stage intellectual background perception of functioning emotional factors spiritual factors

External variable

Influencing a person's health beliefs and practices include family practices and cultural back

Wellness

Education teaches people how to care for themselves in a healthy way and includes topics such as physical awareness, stress management, and self responsibility

Illness prevention

Immunization programs protect patients from actual or potential threats to hell they motivate people to avoid declines in health or functional levels

Passive strategies of health promotion

Individuals gained from the activities of others without acting themselves

Active strategies of health promotion

Individuals are molded to adapt specific health programs for example weight reduction and smoking cessation programs

Primary preventive

True prevention, it precedes disease or dysfunction and is applied to patients considered physically and emotionally healthy

Secondary prevention

Focuses on individuals who are experiencing health problems or illnesses and are at risk for developing complications or worsening conditions

Tertiary prevention

Occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible

Risk factors

Is any situation, habit, social or environmental condition, physiological or psychological condition, developmental or intellectual condition, spiritual condition, or other variable that increases the vulnerability of an individual or group to an illness or accident

Illness

Is a state in which a person's physical emotional intellectual social developmental or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired

Acute illness

Usually reversible has a short duration and is often severe the symptoms appear abruptly and are intense and often subside after a relatively short period

Chronic illness

Persists usually longer than 6 months is irreversible and effects functioning as one or more system

Stages of health behavior change

Precontemplation


Contemplation


Preparation


Action


Maintenance stage

Precontemplation

Not intending to make changes within the next 6 months

Contemplation

Considering a change within the next 6 months

Preparation

Making small changes in preparation for a change in the next month

Action

Actively engaged in strategies to change behavior, lasts up to 6 months

Maintenance stage

Sustained changed over time, begin six months after action has started and continues indefinitely

Illness behavior

It involves how people monitor their bodies define and interpret their symptoms, take remedial actions, and use resources in health care system

Variables influencing illness and illness behavior

Internal variable and external variable

Impact of illness on patient and family

Behavioral and emotional changes, impact on body image, impact on self concept, impact on family roles, impact on family dynamics