BSNC 1000 Exam #1 (Module 1-3)
Health - - state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
- Homeostasis - - maintenance of physiological, functional and social norms
leading to adaptation and homeostasis
- Human potential - - actualization of human potential through goal-directed
behaviour, competent self-care and satisfying relationships with others
- Harmony - - adjustment to maintain structural integrity and harmony with
relevant environments
- population - - large group of people who have at least one characteristic in
common and reside in a community
- aggregate - - subpopulation or a group with the larger population
- Population Health - - measured by determinants of health and health
status indicators
- Population health scope - - individuals, groups, families, communities, and
populations
- collaboration - - working with other healthcare professionals to address
health inequities while keeping the determinants and social determinants of
health in sight
- illness - - subjective experience of the loss of health
- disease - - objective state of ill health and pathological process detected
by medical science
- Medical diagnosis - - diagnosis made by doctor or nurse practitioner,
declares that individual has a medical diagnosis or a disease
- Nursing diagnosis - - diagnosis made by nurses, describe health care
problems via clinical judgement
- social determinants of health - - encompasses health determinants with a
societal focus and responsibility
- determinants of health - - factors that influence risk for or distribution of
health outcomes
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