Question

Marianne, who is 90 years of age, deaf, and blind, has severe dementia and hypertension, for which she takes no medications. She lives in an assisted living facility run by the local Catholic church. Her daughters placed her here for safety and assistance with activity of daily living. She continues to play cards with the staff and other residents in the home despite her blindness. She is not a member of this Catholic church. All of the residents of this assisted living are Italian. She is from France. A. In the global context, what does it mean to be healthy? Is Marianne considered healthy or unhealthy according to the global definition of health? B. Smith defines four models of health. What are they? According to Smith's model, how would you define Marianne's health? C. Regardless of what country Marianne is receiving care in, does she have the right to good health and sense of well-being? How is this going to occur in a global society?

Answer 1

a, Global context means population health in the practice when providing priority to imporve health and focus on equity in the health of the global population. In global definition of health she is living healthy, despite her physical illness, disability, not belong to the catholic community, from france she is receiving good care it says she is living healthy.
b, Smith's four models of health
-clinical model
It is the discipline of medicine there are no symptoms of illness and present with the absence of signs and symptoms of the disease, it can prevent the illness.
-Role performance model
It is included work, family, society as per societal expectations. illness occurs when there is absence of a person's role in the society
-Adaptive model
In this model people adopt the situation including social, mental, physical wellbeing for health.when it fails there illness occurs.
- eudaimonistic model
This model about interaction and interrelationship among social enviroenment for the physical, social, spiritual and psychological aspects. illness occurs when there is a lack of involvement.
Marianne's health can be defincd with the 4th model eudaimonistic model because her interaction and interrelationship made her adopt the social aspect of life with different enviroenemnt for her health.
c, She is receiving care regardless of her country. she has the right to good health and a sense of wellbeing because as per global health definition first priority to improve health by providing health equality to address their needs it can remove their illness.
this is going to occur in global society when we avoid health inequities among different cultures say low, high and middle-class communities, removing socio-economic cost differences among each individual and societies. Health inequity makes difference in health status where they born, live, age, color, work, etc. when these social factors become equal at that time there will be health equity and good health and the absence of illness.