A nurse educator is explaining the concept of health and parallels this with interruption of body systems and symptoms of disease or injury. This educator is interpreting health according to which model?
1. Health–illness continua
2. Eudemonistic
3. Adaptive
4. Clinical
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: The health–illness continua is often used to measure a person's perceived level of wellness in which health and illness are at opposite ends of a health continuum.
Rationale 2: The eudemonistic model incorporates a comprehensive view of health, where health is seen as a condition of actualization or realization of a person's potential.
Rationale 3: In the adaptive model, health is seen as a creative process and disease is seen as a failure in adaptation or maladaptation.
Rationale 4: The narrowest interpretation of health occurs in the clinical model, where people are viewed as physiologic systems with related functions and health is defined by the absence of signs and symptoms of disease or injury.
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