Community
- a group of people living in a certain area possessing a unique sense of identity and sharing a common culture
Health
- a dynamic state in the life cycle of an individual, family, or community
- is a state of complete physical, mental, social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (World Health Organization)
Public Health
- science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through community organization for:
- Sanitation and hygiene
- Health education
- Organization of medical and nursing services
- Early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
Assessment Tools
- Initial data base
- Family structure and characteristics
- Socio-economic and cultural factors
- Environmental factors
- Health and medical history of family members
- Family coping index
- Typology of nursing problems
Establishing Priorities
- Scale for ranking family health problems according to priority
- Four criteria for establishing priorities
- Nature of the problem presented – health threat, health deficit, foreseeable crisis
- Modifiability of the problem – refers to the probability of success in minimizing, alleviating or totally eradicating the problem through nursing interventions
- Preventive potential – refers to the nature and magnitude of future problems that can be minimized or totally prevented if intervention is done on the problem under consideration
- Salience – family’s perception of a problem. As a general rule, the family’s concerns and felt needs needs require priority attention
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