Nursing 2230A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Health Promotion, Health System, Population Health
13 Mar 2018
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Inadequate drainage homes become flooded, highways are obstructed, and schools are filled with water: 9,000 metric tons of waste daily with no adequate means of removal, heavily dependent on imports for food ( billion worth). Infection like polio, cholera, and guinea worm are breaking out. However, in the last decade, hospitals are being built, schools upgraded, roads expanded, and waste better managed. Bus transport system has been put in place, as well as light-rail tracks to help with traffic. When viewed positively, you can have disease, but still have healthy characteristics: disease and illness are not interchangeable. Disease is an objective state of ill health (medical science) whereas illness is subjective experience of loss of health: health is also objective and wellness is subjective (experience). Heath in 3 ways: health as stability. Health is defined as the maintenance of physiological, functional, and social norms, and it relates to concepts of adaptation and homeostasis: health as actualization.
