Global health concerns are closely related to local health concerns because of ever-growing physical, environmental, and societal changes on a worldwide scale

Question

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

Answer 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.