Author Question: Why would the nurse review health status determinants when assessing a patient? Select all that ... (Read 82 times)

Anajune7 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Why would the nurse review health status determinants when assessing a patient? Select all that apply:

1. Learn the patient's lifestyle.
2. Understand the patient's environment.
3. Identify how to measure progress.
4. Ability to motivate action
5. Identify ways to reduce health care costs.

Question 2

For many people, health and illness are opposites which can make them view health as which of the following?

1. Freedom from evil that causes illness
2. A state of physical fitness
3. A state of emotional ambiguity
4. The reward for a productive life

GCabra · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

1, 2
Explanation: 1. Lifestyle is a major determinant in disease prevention and health promotion.
2. Environmental factors are major determinants in disease prevention and health promotion.
3. A specific determinant to measure progress is not identified.
4. The ability for health status determinants to motivate action has not been identified.
5. Health status determinants are not used to identify ways to reduce health care costs.

Answer to Question 2

1
Explanation: 1. Many people associate health and illness as opposites, such that health is good and illness is evil. Therefore, viewing health from this perspective sees health as the freedom from and absence of evil that causes illness.
2. Physical fitness is a functional definition of health, and being physically fit is healthy.
3. Emotional wholeness can be considered health if viewed as the opposite of illness, and therefore ambiguity would not be health.
4. Health as a reward for a productive life infers that a person cannot be productive if he or she is ill, which is not always true.