Foundations of health Promotion

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Peer Responses: Length: A minimum of 150 words per post, not including references Citations: At least one high-level scholarly reference in APA per post from within the last 5 years Peer Post: Exploring the concepts of health: Why is the way an individual defines health and health problems important? What are the implications for advance practice nurses? Which theoretical model of health is of particularly interest to you? Why? The way people define health or health problems is important in healthcare because since it guides when and how the individual seeks healthcare or preventive health care services. A person’s ideas of what is good health or bad health affect their attitudes, behaviors, and the eventual seeking of healthcare services. Another factor that defines how individuals understand health is in the history of prior illnesses such as in the study conducted by Thong et al. (2019) of people who had endometrial cancer and subsequent illness perceptions which could encourage future self-management behaviors such seeking healthcare services.  For the healthcare provider to recognize variance in the significance of health can explain outcomes and individual expectations in enhancement of health and improve the quality of health care (Edelman & Kudzma, 2018). Research defines four models of health (Smith,1983; Edelman & Kudzma, 2018) and depending on which one you can compare your patient to, it would guide your care and your and health education. It would also help you understand how your patient views you as the healthcare provider and what he expects from the visit.  A good example study on a model of health is the study conducted by Shewasinad-Yehualashedt et al. (2021), on how the different beliefs of the community controlled their adherence to the sanctioned safety protocols implemented during COVID-19 pandemic.  The theoretical model of health that is of interest to me and which I plan to encourage in my practice is the Eudaimonistic Model of Health because I see health as the interplay “between physical, social, psychological, and spiritual” (Edelman & Kudzma, 2018).  I believe health is the sum of all those parts, and imbalance in one will cause a breakdown on all of them.  Also, the fact that just because the individual has  a chronic issue or deficiency does not mean he is not healthy and able to function in an optimal level.