Assignment 1: Concept Of Health Assessment

INTRODUCTION This contextual project consist of 10 concept from module entitled Health assessment block 4 BSN01 I will describe each of the concept in terms of meaning, critically analyzed for its real life application and will be followed by some references of the current research evidence, real life application will be explore, a possible relationship of the concept with personal social or professional life
CONCEPT 1: CONCEPT OF HEALTH This concept is taken from module 1.1entitled introduction to health assessment concept ` According to World Health Organization health is a complete physical mental and social well-being of an individual and not merely in absence of diseases It is normal physiologic state of all part of the body performing their normal functions no effectively It is also a complete way of well-being, which include sound body, mind and spirit functions Health assessment is a way of data collection of an individual concerning its state of health being It is collection of a comprehensive history of an individual including subjective [history’s by patient] and objective [which is nurses observation]
It include collection of family, social, past medical, present medical, any history of previous surgical intervention, blood transfusion, immunization history of an individual so as to

Some theorists claim and argue that these concepts are value-free and descriptive in the same sense as the concepts of atom, metal and rain are value-free and descriptive. To say that a person has a certain disease or that he or she is unhealthy is thus to objectively describe this person. On the other hand it certainly does not preclude an additional evaluation of the state of affairs as undesirable or bad. The basic scientific description and the evaluation are, however, two independent matters, according to this kind of