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Community/Public Health Nursing 6th Edition by Mary Nies ,Melanie McEwen
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0323188197Community/Public Health Nursing 6th Edition by Mary Nies ,Melanie McEwen
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0323188197 Exercise 2
Compare and contrast definitions of health from a public health nursing perspective.
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Nursing has been slowly evolving over the years from being a disease-centric profession that focused on curative care at institutions, to being a more health-centric profession that takes a more decentralized approach to the employment and allotment of nurses.
Nursing focused on public health takes a far more holistic view of the healthcare profession that more traditional American philosophies like those of market justice. There are several definitions of health that represent this mindset.
For instance the World Health Organization (WHO) defined as health in terms of complete physical, social and mental well-being that goes beyond just the absence of disease and infirmity.
There are several alternative definitions used in nursing literature. For instance, a paper by Murray, Zentner and Yakimo defines health as the ability of a person to use purposeful, as well as adaptive responses and processes in the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions."
By contrast, a paper by Pender, Murtaugh and Parsons defines health in terms of realizing human potential via goal-directed behavior, taking care of oneself with competence and having good relationships.
These definitions use highly subjective terminology, making it difficult to standardize the definition of health. This results in various biases coming into play during healthcare research. For instance, some researchers may emphasize the individual as a unit of measurement and neglect the community, while other researchers may consider the environment as static instead of dynamic.
Nursing focused on public health takes a far more holistic view of the healthcare profession that more traditional American philosophies like those of market justice. There are several definitions of health that represent this mindset.
For instance the World Health Organization (WHO) defined as health in terms of complete physical, social and mental well-being that goes beyond just the absence of disease and infirmity.
There are several alternative definitions used in nursing literature. For instance, a paper by Murray, Zentner and Yakimo defines health as the ability of a person to use purposeful, as well as adaptive responses and processes in the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions."
By contrast, a paper by Pender, Murtaugh and Parsons defines health in terms of realizing human potential via goal-directed behavior, taking care of oneself with competence and having good relationships.
These definitions use highly subjective terminology, making it difficult to standardize the definition of health. This results in various biases coming into play during healthcare research. For instance, some researchers may emphasize the individual as a unit of measurement and neglect the community, while other researchers may consider the environment as static instead of dynamic.
Community/Public Health Nursing 6th Edition by Mary Nies ,Melanie McEwen
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