According to the World Health Organization, what is the best definition for "health"?
a. Simply the absence of disease
b. Involving the total person and environment
c. Strictly personal in nature
d. Status of pathological state
ANS: B
Nurses' attitudes toward health and illness should consider the total person, as well as the environment in which the person lives. All people free of disease are not equally healthy. Views of health have broadened to include mental, social, and spiritual well-being, as well as a focus on health at family and community levels. Conditions of life, rather than pathological states, are what define health.
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