Nursing 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Promotion, Intercultural Competence, Essentialism
28 Dec 2015
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Important to understand broad influences on health, not just physical findings. Why address this: treatment might not always be realistic, provides patient centered care, identify health promotion opportunities, address issues of inequity, social injustices, and for the common good. Assessments can be done of individual, community, & societal social. Physical and mental health as related to the patient"s existing resources, constraints, and demands. Predominantly entails personal interviews but clues obtained through. The scope of the assessment is broader and more complex than at the individual level: ex. Involves identifying community resources, constraints, and high-priority health concerns: ex. Begins with assessment of various social, economic, environmental, and quality-of-life health indicators and their relationship with the community"s health concerns. Generates information about population trends and relationships among the social variables and prevalent health concerns. Informs healthy public policy and broad health-promotion initiatives. Virginia polihronova: a group of people that have a common way of viewing things not limited to ethnicity (ex.
