The health-illness continuum can be used to:
A. define health and illness as absolute.
B. understand the relationships between attitudes toward health and health practices.
C. compare one patient's health to another patient's health.
D. consider a patient's risk factors when identifying levels of health.
B
Health and illness are complex concepts. Health is more than just the absence of illness or disease. Nursing models allow nurses to understand and predict patients' behaviors, use of health services, participation in therapy, and care for themselves. Risk factors are part of a patient's health beliefs and health practices.
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