Health, Wellness & Illness, encounters well not only during the student life of a nurse however this triangle defines the trajectory of the nursing professionals, as it is the base of all medical profession and describe as a basic need of humane life standards. Similarly, very easy to define and understand each of them, yet we follow the standard definition and examples of World Health Organization.
According to World Health Organization, Health is:
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
Further WHO brief eight times:
1. The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, and political belief, economic or social condition.
2. The health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security and is dependent on the fullest co-operation of individuals and States.
3. The achievement of any State in the promotion and protection of health is of value to all.
4. Unequal development in different countries in the promotion of health and control of diseases, especially communicable disease, is a common danger.
5. Healthy development of the child is of basic importance; the ability to live harmoniously in a changing total environment is essential to such development.
6. The extension to all peoples of the benefits of medical, psychological and related knowledge is essential to the fullest attainment of health.
7. Informed opinion and active co-operation on the part of the public are of the utmost importance in the improvement of the health of the people.
8. Governments have a responsibility for the health of their peoples which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and social measures.
These all are in the result of CONSTITUTION OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, which was adopted by the international health conference held in New York from 19th June to 22nd July 1946, signed by 61 representatives of States.
Declare that the above mentioned principles are basic to the happiness, harmonious relations and security of all peoples
Therefore, Health standard for nurses are the same as mentioned in the constitution of the World Health Organization
According to World Health Organization, Wellness is:
Wellness is the optimal state of health of individuals and group.
There are two focal concerns
1 – The realization of the fullest potential of an individual physically, psychology, socially, spiritually and economically, and
2 – The fulfilment of one’s role expectations in the family, community, place of worship, workplace and other settings.
Illness
It is inability of an individual’s adaptive response of to maintain physical and emotional response to maintain physical and emotional balance with impairment of functional abilities.
The Health, Illness - Wellness Continuum
Many people assumes, the absence of illness indicates wellness. But there are many degrees of wellness, same as there are many degrees of illness.
Illness wellness continuum, demonstrate the process of continuous change, during which the individual experiences various states of health and illness. Reaching from extremely good health to death which may swing throughout a life span. People move like a pendulum with in this continuum every day. The illness – wellness continuum made of two opposite forces, with conflicting direction but joined at neutral point.
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