Week 2

Question 1

Absence if disease or illness

Answer 1

• Everyone has a different perspective of what is considered “healthy”
• This is a negative and closed minded view

Question 2

Positive state of well being

Answer 2

Nurses should think qualitatively (you’re healthy if you’re not sick) rather than just quantitatively (what an individual says it is)

Question 3

Multidimensional

Answer 3

Health isn’t just physical it also includes emotional, social, mental, and spiritual

All about balance all are interconnected (ex: if you’re stressed your blood pressure may be higher)

Question 4

WHO Definition

Answer 4

Depicts health holistically, whereby health is more than the sum of parts and that all parts inter relate with one another to create a sense of well being

Question 5

WHO Dimensions of Well Being

Answer 5

Physical, Social and Mental all connect

Question 6

WHO (1947)

Answer 6

Embraces a more subjective view of health. Views health as an ideal state of well being

Question 7

WHO (1984)

Answer 7

Incorporates both actualization and stability dimensions suggesting people in a variety of situations even those living with a disease or near death can be healthy

Question 8

Medical Approach (biomedical)

Answer 8

Emphasizes medical interventions to restore health and health problems are defined as primarily physiological

Health is when you don’t have a contagious or disfiguring disease

Question 9

Behavioural Approach (Marc Lalonde)

Answer 9

Defined Health determinants as broadly as:
- Lifestyle
- Environment
- Human Biology
- Organizations of healthcare

Challenged due to it blaming people for their heath status

Question 10

Socioenvironmental

Answer 10

Connects health to social structures- public health expanded health concepts to include social context of health and relationships between health behaviours and social/physical environments

WHO 1987 and WHO 1997

Starting to have a population level lens and increasingly more attention to risk conditions and determinants of health