Key Concepts in Health, Community, and Nursing: A Summary

Key Concepts in Health, Community, and Nursing

  • Anton Nardiz (EC)

    The EC understands the healthcare needs of the population and provides scientific and technical skills to isolated individuals, families, or groups.

  • Berthet (Health)

    Three notions: 1. Equilibrium and harmony, 2. Fullness of life, 3. Strong potential reserves.

  • Burgess and Park (Ecology)

    Study of the interaction between humans and their environment as biological beings.

  • Collières (Care)

    Caring is allowing life to continue and develop.

  • Dominguez (Care)

    Care is linked to all forms of life and supportive care is inseparable from the notion of human beings.

  • Hanchett (Health)

    A healthy person radiates energy, enjoys being themselves, and is aware of others.

  • Kérouac and Cools (Professional Practice Nurse)

    A field of experience where beliefs and values are lived.

  • Lalonde (Determinants of Health)

    Human biology, environment, lifestyle, and healthcare system.

  • Martínez Navarro (Public Health)

    Public health studies factors affecting the health status of a group or social class.

  • Marchioni and Turabian (Community)

    Land, population, demand, and resources.

  • Medina (Professional Practice Nurse)

    Activity of a community of nurses who share professional traditions.

  • WHO (Public Health)

    Public health concerns the health problems of human communities. (Health): A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.

  • OPS (EC)

    Community Health Nursing is subject to the global community and integrates concepts and methods of Public Health Sciences.

  • Pujol and Ubeda (Community)

    Groups of people, place, structure, properties, common resources, and service relations.

  • Salleras (Public Health)

    Science and art of organizing collective efforts to protect, promote, and restore health. (Determinants of Health): Environmental pollution, healthcare system, unhealthy behavior, human biology. (Health): Achieving the highest level of physical, mental, social, and operational capacity.

  • San Martin and Pastor (Community)

    Populations in a defined geographical area with social and economic integration and social institutions. (Health): A variable state of physiological-ecological adaptation. (Ecology): Study of the structure and workings of nature.

  • Terris (Health)

    A state of complete physical, mental, and social functional capacity, not merely the absence of discomfort or pain.

  • Tinkhamy Voorhies (1981) (EC)

    Social Nursing is where the family and community become patients, focusing on promotion and preservation of health and wellness.