Short Answer Questions

where health is defined as an ideal physical or mental state measured against disease or illness

McFarland reading

where health is viewed in a context appropriate to a particular society, measured against how people feel about themselves.

McFarland reading

where health is seen as a state of being able to undertake physical or mental functions.

McFarland Reading

Nurses new definition of health: Health can grow in the midst of disease.

Shalom can mean many different things. In the old testament it means health.

Doornbos defines shalom as: complete spiritual, physical and mental flourishing. - this sets the standards for nurses too high. No one would be considered healthy.

we need to remember we can be healthy midst a disease.

McFarland reading: Health was once defined as the absence of disease, but now it is defined as physical, mental, and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of a disease.

Doornbos: Nurses should remember that health can happen in the midst of a disease (shalom).

SDOH - support people to achieve a level of health that enables them to be productive and active participants in their community. (there is a clear link between health and poverty and the SDOH try to improve that

Doornbos:
Independence
Dependence
Person as image bearer
Person as a co-author
Person as a community

Independence: unity/wholeness, subjectivity.

Dependence: We are dependent on God, but also other people and social institutions. (openness.)

Image bearers: Neighbors - the person who is being neighborly, and the person who is neighborly.

Co-authors - you are a co-author of your own life - relationships

community - allocation of resources/justice.

health economist tries to find out with the money that we have to spend on health care how can we make the best possible investments, so that each dollar that we invest gets us the maximum amount of health care for the population

- Make sure we get more health per unit of money
- Calculate how much to invest in health
- Show that health for all is better for the economy and the society
- Show that a strong primary health care leads to better results
- Show that a health promoting environment is most cost effective.

-maximize utility, and minimize cost.
- Measure - birth, death, incidences.
- Things that affect the economy - income, education.