NURS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Literacy, Independent Community And Health Concern, Malnutrition
23 Dec 2016
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Who definition of health = health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of diseases. Problem with this definition: the word complete is overarching. Not only individual responsibility: people taking drugs => not necessarily a lifestyle choice, but a coping strategy, other factors that contribute to your health: Social factors => income, education, social networks, housing, nutrition, clean water, health policies, health services, ethnicity (much more in ppt, listed as social determinants of health) Environment (low income countries => suffering from environmental illnesses) Everything going on in the world is influencing our health status. Model of determinants of health (14: income and income distribution. Poor people are caught in a vicious circle: poverty breeds ill-health, ill health maintains poverty. Prolonged stress or rather the responses it engenders are known to have deleterious effects on a number of biological systems and to give rise to a number of illnesses.
