NSG 482 Promoting Healthy Communities

Definitions of Health

Part of health promotion is meeting a patient at their definition of health. One person’s health goals and possibilities may differ from another’s.

Assume you are a nurse at a community health clinic. Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a summary of definitions of health for the clinic’s staff.

Search the internet for representations of various definitions of health in populations like newborn babies, a healthy older adult, or a person in a wheelchair or with another physical disability.

Based on your research, write a 525-word summary of your findings in which you:

· Describe 6 representations of definitions of health for the following types of individuals:

· Newborn babies

· Healthy adult Asian woman over age 55

· Disabled 35-year-old African American male veteran

· Pre-teen White female entering middle school

· Sexually active 20-something Hispanic male

· Obese 75-year-old White male living with debilitating arthritis

· Explain the importance of meeting a patient at their definition of health.

Include 3 references.

**reference needs to be withing 5 years (2000-2024)