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awywial

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Which definition of health would the nurse most likely use when assessing a patient's thinking about health?
 
  1. Being in a state of physical, mental, and social well-being
  2. Not having any discernible illness or disease
  3. Having a harmonious, balanced relationship with nature
  4. The ability to get up and go to work each day

Question 2

Families headed by a woman have which of the following?
 
  1. Increased from 10 in 1970 to 30.5 in 2014.
  2. Experienced the improvement in the economic climate in the United States.
  3. Received aid as a result of poverty guidelines of 2014 that are better than those of 2010.
  4. Received larger amounts of cash per capita.



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Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: 1. The World Health Organization offers the most commonly accepted holistic definition of health: when a person has a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease.
2. No sign of discernible illness or disease does not indicate overall health, but represents a physical definition of health.
3. A harmonious, balanced relationship with nature can occur with health or illness.
4. The ability to get up and go to work is a functional definition of health.

Answer to Question 2

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Explanation: 1. There has been an increase of 20.5 of families headed by a woman between 1970 and 2015.
2. The economic climate has improved for some in the United States, but not for all its residents.
3. Aid received as a result of poverty guidelines is not helping as much as it has in the past.
4. Poverty levels are increasing despite an increase in poverty guidelines.



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