HEALTH E. MOD 2

• Nursing is both an art and a science, using specialized knowledge and skills to promote wellness and provide care for people in health and illness
• Aims of Nursing:

  • Prevent illness
  • Restore health
  • Facilitate coping with disability or death
  • Promote health
• Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity - World Health Organization (1948)
• Determinants of Health:

  • Personal, social, economic, and environmental factors determine the health status of individuals or populations - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Health promotion:

  • Process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health - WHO (1986) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
• Disease prevention:

  • Covers measures to prevent disease occurrence, arrest its progress, and reduce its consequences - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Health Education:

  • Consciously constructed opportunities for learning to improve health literacy, knowledge, and life skills for individual and community health - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Health literacy:

  • Cognitive and social skills determining motivation and ability to access, understand, and use health information for good health - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Health behavior:

  • Any activity by an individual to promote, protect, or maintain health, regardless of actual or perceived health status - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Risk behaviors:

  • Behaviors associated with increased susceptibility to a specific cause of ill-health - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Risk factors:

  • Social, economic, or biological factors associated with increased susceptibility to specific diseases, ill health, or injury - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Health status:

  • Description or measurement of health of an individual or population at a particular point in time against identifiable standards, usually by reference to health indicators - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Health Outcome:

  • Change in health status attributable to a planned intervention or series of interventions, regardless of the intention to change health status - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary
• Equity in health:

  • Fairness in distributing opportunities for well-being based on people's needs - WHO (1998) Health Promotion Glossary