Global health concerns are closely related to local health ...

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Global health concerns are closely related to local health concerns because of ever-growing physical, environmental, and societal changes on a worldwide scale.
 
  The World Health Organization (WHO) has promoted a global social conscience of healthcare and health reform. A nursing student is preparing a short postconference clinical report on health. The student nurse needs to include various definitions of health. The nurse looked up the WHO definition of health. What should the student nurse state that is the WHO definition of health? A) Balance of all of the components of the human organism
  B) Change in the structure or function of body tissues, biological systems, or the human mind
  C) State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
  D) A state of health in which a structural cause cannot be identified

Question 2

During a lecture on the hematologic and lymphatic systems, the nurse explains to the nursing students the principal functions of blood and its homeostatic mechanisms. What does the nurse tell the students are the functions of the hematologic system?
 
  1 . Delivery of nutrients and oxygen to cells
  2 . Transportation of dietary fats
  3 . Drainage of interstitial fluid
  4 . Removal of wastes
  5 . Blood volume regulation
  A) 1, 2, 3
  B) 1, 4, 5
  C) 2, 3, 4
  D) 2, 4, 5

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Answer to Question 1

C
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According to the WHO, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Homeostasis is the balance of all of the components of the human organism. Disease is a change in the structure or function of body tissues, biological systems, or the human mind. Functional disease is a state of health in which a structural cause cannot be identified.

Answer to Question 2

B
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The hematologic system has three general functions: transportation, regulation, and protection. These functions involve delivery of nutrients and oxygen to cells, removal of wastes, blood volume regulation, blood cell and antibody production, and blood coagulation. The lymphatic system transports dietary fats, drains interstitial fluid, and provides immunity to help protect the body from infection. It also recycles and returns excess proteins that may escape from blood vessels to the systemic circulation.