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
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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.
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