Question

Discuss how the concept of "health" has changed overtime. Discuss how the concept has evolved to include wellness, illness, and overall well-being. How has health promotion changed over time? Why is it important that nurses implement health promotion interventions based on evidence-based practice?

Answer 1

Health is a state of complete physical ,mental and social well being not merely absence of disease or infirmity .

Health is the state of optimal physical ,mental and social wellbeing .

Disease : refers to physiological or pathological dysfunction . In other words ,disease implies a focus on pathological processess that may or may not produce symptomsvand that result in a patients ilness .

Wellness : a state of being that enables a person to reach Gud or her highest potential ,in cludes intellectual ,social , emotional ,physical and spiritual health.

The concept of health has changed over time because before health focussed on illness and now health associated with good fitness.

All medern concepts of health recognise health as more than the absence of disease ,implying a maximum capavity of infividual for self realisation and self fulfilment .this should equilibrate the human inner forces and possibilities with the feelings of pleasure or dissatisfaction in relation with the environment .

Today 's society is a complex ,high cost ,high tech society where citizens constantly need to learn and update their knowledge  and skills to be able to manage their own life .as digital society is built on software that is constantly renewed and replaced by new software as usual the concept of health also changing .

In ancient times ,health fell largely under the influence of religion and was equivalent to gaining favor with deities .and then first major break to supernatural concepts .hippocrates believed that disease resulted from imbalancebetween four bodily fluids _ black bile ,yellow bile ,phlegm,and blood .

The concept of wellness has no single ,universal acceptable definition .the situation gives room to developing and refining wellness both as a concept and experience .

Wellness is complicated concept . The definition and utilisation varies from situation to situation .this seemingly convoluted past gives way to no single definition of wellness.often times the definition of wellness is situated as an anti thesis of the illness paradigm.to some extent ,these blur the definition of wellness because one would have difficulty studying wellness concept as state of wellness independent of illness or disease.

New concept of wellness is to attainment of optimum level of functioning .

Health promotion is a vital component of public health practice ,during last two dacades ,health promotion has been consolidated and institutionalized .

Health promotion is the art and science of helping people discover the synergies between their core pasdions and optimal health ,enhancing their motivation to strive for optimal health and supporting them in changing their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health

Why it is important :

By implimenting health promotion activities ,the public can be stay healthy .

It can reduces the health care cost of public and it help to people to achieve optimum level of health .

It reduces the spending of out of pocket money by public .

It increases the age to live healthy .