Nursing 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Primary Healthcare, Jake Epp, Chns-Fm
9 Dec 2016
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Health is objective and subjective, a state and a process, naturalist and normative. Health is desirable because it encompasses positive qualities such as physical strength emotion stability and balance. Some theorist state that the goal of nursing is quality of life, while others claim that health and healing are the focus of nursing. The health related actions of nurses need to be designed to achieve the over-all health- related goals of the wider society. A patterned system of texts, messages, talk, dialogue, or conversations which can be identified in these communications and located in social structures. Discourses play major role in shaping relations of power what is valued in society and receive attention and resources. Current discourses of health will have elements of both traditional and naturalistic ways of thinking. Health is desirable, a social good, and therein lies its power to shape action. What is considered healthy and unhealthy is influenced by cultural context.
