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Health Beliefs and Practices

• Health promotion is defined as behavior motivated by the desire to improve well-being and achieve full health potential.
• Disease prevention, or health protection, is defined as behavior motivated by the avoidance of illness, early detection, or maintaining one's health within the confines of an illness.
• Nurses focus on holistic care, viewing individuals as complete beings rather than a collection of parts. They consider the individual's relationship with the physical environment and others.
• Human needs are ranked in a hierarchy according to their importance to survival, with physiological needs being the most essential.
• Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs ranks human needs in five levels.
• Physiological Needs: Essential for survival: air, food, water, shelter, rest, sleep, activity, and temperature regulation.
• Safety and Security Needs: Need for safety, both physical and psychological, in the environment and relationships.
• Love and Belonging Needs: Giving and receiving affection, fitting into a group and a sense of belonging.
• Self-Esteem Needs: Feelings of independence, competence and self-respect, as well as recognition, respect and appreciation from others.
• Self-Actualization: Developing one's full potential and realizing one's unique abilities and qualities.
• Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being not merely the absence of disease.
• Wellness is a state of well-being.
• Well-being is a subjective perception of vitality, and feeling well.
• Wellness includes self-responsibility, an ultimate goal that is a dynamic growing process, daily decisions in areas like nutrition, stress management, and physical fitness.

Components of Wellness

• Physical wellness includes daily tasks, fitness, and positive lifestyle habits.
• Social wellness involves successful interactions with others, intimacy, respect and tolerance.
• Emotional wellness includes stress management, appropriate emotional expression, and accepting limitations.
• Intellectual wellness relates to learning, utilizing information regarding personal development, and effective dealing with challenges.
• Occupational wellness is achieving a balance between work, leisure and personal fulfillment.
• Spiritual wellness involves beliefs in a higher power, morals, values, and a sense of life's purpose.
• Environmental wellness encompasses promoting health measures that improve the standard of living and surroundings.

Health Status, Beliefs and Practices

• Health status is an individual's health at a particular time.
• Health beliefs are the true perceptions of health by individuals.
• Health behaviors are actions aimed at understanding health, maintaining it optimally, preventing illness and injury, and achieving full physical and mental potential.

Variables Influencing Health Status, Beliefs, and Practices

• Internal Variables (non-modifiable): Biological factors (genetics, sex, age), psychological factors (emotions, self-concept), and cognitive factors (lifestyles, spiritual and religious beliefs.)
• External Variables (modifiable): Environmental factors (geography, climate), living standards (occupation, income, education), family factors, and social support networks.

Illness and Disease

• Illness is a state where a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social, developmental, or spiritual functioning is compromised.
• Acute illness is short-term.
• Chronic illness is long-term (lasting 6 months or more).
• Disease is an alteration in body function that reduces normal function or life span.