Health: A Developing Concept in Nursing

Alslman, Eman Tariq; Ahmad, Muayyad; Hani, Manar Ali Bani; Atiyeh, Huda Mohammad

doi:10.1111/2047-3095.12113

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“…Ten articles were written from a care workers perspective [ 12 , 33 – 41 ]. The care workers in these articles were for example general practitioners, social workers, and staff in mental health.…”

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Concepts of health in different contexts: a scoping review

Druten

Bartels

Mheen

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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The rationale of our study was that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of health from 1947 which includes “… complete physical, mental and social wellbeing…” does not fit the current societal viewpoints anymore. The WHO’s definition of health implies that many people with chronic illnesses or disabilities would be considered unhealthy and complete wellbeing would be utopian and unfeasible for them. This is no longer uniformly accepted. Many alternative concepts of health have been discussed in the last decades such as ‘positive health’, which focusses on someone’s capability rather than incapability,. However, the question remains whether a general health concept can guide all healthcare practices. More likely, health concepts need to be specified for professions or settings. The objective of our study was to create a structured overview of published concepts of health from different perspectives by conducting a scoping review using the PRISMA-ScR guideline. A literature search was conducted in Pubmed and Cinahl. Articles eligible for inclusion focussed on the discussion or the conceptualisation of health or health-related concepts in different contexts (such as the perspective of care workers’ or patients’) published since 2009 (the Dutch Health Council raised the discussion about moving towards a more dynamic perspective on health in that year). Seventy-five articles could be included for thematic analyses. The results showed that most articles described a concept of health consisting of multiple subthemes; no consensus was found on one overall concept of health. This implies that healthcare consumers act based on different health concepts when seeking care than care workers when providing care. Having different understandings of the concepts of health can lead to misunderstandings in practice. In conclusion, from every perspective, and even for every individual, health may mean something different. This finding stresses the importance that care workers’ and healthcare consumers’ meaning of ‘health’ has to be clear to all actors involved. Our review supports a more uniform tuning of healthcare between healthcare providers (the organisations), care workers (the professionals) and healthcare consumers (the patients), by creating more awareness of the differences among these actors, which can be a guide in their communication.

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Concepts of health in different contexts: a scoping review

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Bartels

Mheen

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Initially in this review, health was conceptualized based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 1948 definition as “A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (Nobile, 2014). Although this WHO definition of health is the most cited (Alslman et al, 2017), best-known (Bircher & Kuruvilla, 2014) definition of health, it perceives health as this broad goal, that could change with context, places, and people. In the context of stroke family caregivers, additional layers of complexity are presented because these caregivers must deal with additional stressors compared to the average person not providing care (Ågren et al, 2015; Bom et al, 2019).…”

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“…Mindful of these ever-emerging trends in the literature and the need for consensus in the definition and conceptualization of health in nursing research (Alslman et al, 2017), for the purposes of this review, health was conceptualized as being synonymous to HRQL. HRQL, a multidimensional concept, includes domains related to physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning (Bakas et al, 2012).…”

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Theoretically Based Factors Affecting Stroke Family Caregiver Health: An Integrative Review

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Stroke family caregivers often neglect their own health while providing care. Rigorous reviews have focused on stroke caregiver needs and outcomes; however, a comprehensive review of stroke caregiver health is lacking. The purpose of this integrative review was to determine factors associated with stroke family caregiver health. Using a PRISMA flow diagram and Rayyan software, 41 studies were identified published from January 2000 to December 2020. Databases included Cochrane Reviews, Cochrane Trials, PsycINFO, Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, EBSCOhost MEDLINE, Embase, and CINAHL. Rigorous guidelines were used to critique the 41 articles. Health measures were global in nature, lacking details regarding health promotion activities important to stroke family caregiver health. Common factors associated with caregiver health were depressive symptoms and burden. Further research is needed to design more situation-specific instruments to measure stroke family caregiver health, as well as interventions to reduce depressive symptoms and burden while promoting caregiver health.

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Des modèles pour concevoir la pratique infirmière pour la santé : quels apports à la pratique et la discipline infirmières ?

Leclerc-Loiselle,

Gendron,

Daneault

2024

Recherche en Soins Infirmiers

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La santé représente généralement ce vers quoi les infirmières devraient tendre dans leur pratique. Toutefois, par leurs natures générales et parfois divergentes, les définitions du concept de santé s’avèrent problématiques pour concevoir une pratique infirmière engagée pour la santé. Plutôt que de tenter de la concevoir par une définition du concept de santé, certains auteurs des sciences humaines suggèrent de recourir à des modèles qui permettent de s’y engager concrètement. À partir de modèles existants de pratique pour la santé, l’objectif de cet article est de proposer des mécanismes actionnables permettant de générer une pratique infirmière pour la santé. Par l’invocation de deux modèles, provenant des écrits du philosophe Nordenfelt, ainsi que du sociologue Venkatapuram, deux illustrations sont proposées, permettant toutes deux de concevoir différents mécanismes actionnables. Par un ancrage dans les valeurs constitutives d’une pratique pour la santé, et par une composante descriptive, cette réflexion met en évidence le potentiel de tels modèles pour poursuivre concrètement une pratique infirmière pour la santé. Ces propositions semblent porteuses à la participation des sciences infirmières à la compréhension transdisciplinaire du concept de santé.

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Health: A Developing Concept in Nursing

Cited by 3 publications

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Concepts of health in different contexts: a scoping review

Concepts of health in different contexts: a scoping review

Theoretically Based Factors Affecting Stroke Family Caregiver Health: An Integrative Review

Des modèles pour concevoir la pratique infirmière pour la santé : quels apports à la pratique et la discipline infirmières ?

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