Community Health Nurses Have Long Recognized the Need to Shift

question 1

Multiple Choice

Community health nurses have long recognized the need to shift the emphasis of health care from illness to wellness. The biomedical model:

• A) Explains why some individuals exposed to illness-producing stressors remain healthy
• B) Defines health as the absence of disease
• C) Discusses illness-producing stressors
• D) Defines illness and disease states

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Definitions:

Philosophical Argument

A reasoned and logical discourse aimed at uncovering the truth through the examination of ideas, concepts, and premises.

Free Will

The ability of agents to make choices unconstrained by certain factors.

Environment

The sum of all external conditions and influences affecting the life, development, and survival of an organism or group of organisms.

Needs Hierarchy

A motivational theory proposed by Abraham Maslow that suggests human needs are arranged in a hierarchy, from most to least important.