The Health And Wellness Of The Field Of Medicine

This learning log will firstly describe what is meant by health and what determinants are thought to affect health. An individual’s health is influenced by a range of determinants. Health promotion plays a big part in an individual’s health and wellbeing, one type of health promotion can be the way in which education can influence an individual. This learning log seeks to address the role that health education and promotion can help patients to take more responsibility for their own health. Aside from health promotion, nurses and others in the care industry have to understand and adopt certain care approaches that take into consideration the individual needs of people and their families.

Life expectancy in the United States is below most of the developed world and yet Americans pay the most for healthcare (CIA). The reason that Americans are so low on the list is their dependency on conventional medicine. Whereas other countries take a holistic approach to overall health and wellness, preventing diseases before they become a problem, the American system of medicine treats illnesses and the symptoms without preventing further damage. The result is an entire society dependent on drugs and surgery and constantly living in pain.

Healthcare professional should maintain professional when providing support to patients. Sickness and disease increase individuals’ spiritual needs. Patients are faced with many questions when they are sick. Questions such as these, "Why me?" "What did do?" "Why now?" and "What will happen to my family if I die?" All these and other questions go inside the mind of patients and add to their increased anxiety and fear. Most of these issues are not in the list of physical and medical assessment by the healthcare team. A troubled mind causes harm that can manifest in various spiritual problems and can affect physical healing. An increase mental stress leads to increased blood pressure, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, doubt, guilt, and fear. If spiritual problems are not addressed, then it would jeopardize healing and recovery for both physical and mental conditions. No one can predict how spirituality is related to health, though it seems that the body mind and spirit are all connected. When suffers, the other suffers. Research has shown that there is a connection between beliefs and sense of wellbeing. Positive views, comfort, and strengths received from religion, prayers, and meditations assist to the welfare of an individual and may promote

Many people in the United State do not have an understanding on what it means to be healthy or unhealthy. Some believe that there are healthy because they are not sick. After losing my grandfather to lung cancer, I developed a passion in educating and helping people improve their lifestyles. Although, my grandfather quit smoking 10 years prior to his death, I wish preventions and intervention were enforced earlier on. My grandfather grew up in the era when smoking was cool. No one was concerned about the harmful effects of smoking. Nonetheless, there is still hope to help others. I believe that everyone has the potential to improve

6) Spiritual Health- includes developing a deep appreciation and acceptance for things that cannot be completely understood. It involves the tolerance of values and beliefs of others and participating in activities that are consistent with personal values.

I found chapter 1 to be very interesting. First off i had no idea there was seven components of wellness. I found spirituality to be an eye opener. After reading that section it really made me realize how important forgiveness really is. Learning to forgive is over all better for you health, physically and mentally. Another thing i found interesting in this chapter was the locus of control both external and internal. This really made me think about how others may think and see things. The chapter also talks about smoking and how it is accounted for the highest percentages of deaths and chronic disease. That part really hit close for me cause majority of my family smokes.

The model pertaining to spirituality and its value related to healing endures much cynicism from individuals who cannot accept the concept. From the beginning of their educational path, nurses and physicians are taught to focus on the disease, diagnosis or treatment. This “tunnel vision” becomes problematic for the hospital to allocate the resources needed to develop the individualities needed to develop a healing hospital environment. Chapman (2007) states that the “cynic is deaf to the occasional loving and caring of others” (p. 39). In this author’s experience, patients are more cultured

According to patient surveys, as many as 77% of individuals who seek medical care feel that their religious or spiritual beliefs are directly related to their health concerns, whereas only 16% of conventionally trained physicians or nurses ever inquire about these important matters. (Freinkel and Lake, 2007, p. 365)

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Wellness is more than the absence of disease or infirmity, it is a dynamic process of change and growth. It is also an active process through which you become aware of and make choices toward a more successful existence. Wellness involves the awareness of our current health condition in multiple dimensions with initiative and support to make lasting changes towards a more optimal life. A wellness-oriented lifestyle encourages to adopt habits and behaviors that promote better health and an improved quality of life. There are six dimensions of wellness include emotional, spiritual, environmental, physical, social, and intellectual. Each dimension of wellness is connected to another. Each dimension also has fairly effective to pursue an optimal health. Everyone needs to understand how to maintain and improve each demission of wellness in order to achieve an optimum level of wellness.

The following report will introduce and then analyse the Victorian public health and wellbeing plan 2015-2019. Firstly, we will describe the primary concerns regarding the health and wellbeing of all Victorians. The Victorian public health and wellbeing plan identifies six main priority areas which include promoting healthier food and physical activity, reducing and ultimately eliminating tobacco use, a reduction in alcohol consumption and drug use, improvements in mental health, the reduction and prevention of domestic and family violence, and lastly the promotion of improved sexual and reproductive health. This report will analyse the priority area aimed at reducing harmful alcohol and drug use and then discuss two related

Thanks for answering my posed question. When working with a client, it is important to understand the client’s spiritual, religious, or faith belief systems spirituality because an individual’s spirituality and religious beliefs do play a part in helping them to cope with their illnesses. Spirituality is described as a way to find meaning and inner peace in one’s life. People can find spirituality through such things as religion, music, art or in nature. Spirituality is represented in a person’s values, principles, and worldview.

"The area of spirituality and health is developing as an academic field of inquiry, and this new perspective is beginning to be incorporated into training programs for medical doctors and health practitioners."

Health care expenditures have risen drastically in the United States during the past 30 years. Much of the growth in health care spending can be linked to modifiable population risk factors such as obesity, which in turn gives rise to diseases. Rising disease prevalence and new medical treatments account for nearly two-thirds of the rise in spending. (see Per capita spending exhibit 2) It is for this reason that I feel healthcare reforms should focus on health promotion, cost-effective use of medical care, and public health interventions.

Health is a state of wellbeing. A person’s health is like see-saw on a daily basis, one must choose to either maintain good health or poor health. In my opinion, good health is when all essential components are met to live a healthy lifestyle. These components include nutritional needs, physical needs and psychological need. When any of these components become compromised it leads to poor health. Illness can be caused by several different factors. An illness can arise from the environment we live in, from contact with people that are ill, and even we can cause ourselves to become ill. When I begin to experience symptoms of an illness, I like to manage them as soon as they arise. For example, with symptoms of a cold, I would go get something over the counter to treat it before it gets bad. I usually do not seek any care immediately until, I have done everything I can on my part to try to fight it off. My son not too long ago had some small bumps on his chest. I did some research come to find out that it was “Mollescum Contagiousum”. I researched online over the different ways to treat the stubborn bump. I ended up going to the pharmacy to buy an OTC medication, which actually worked great! First I try to solve the problem, if I’m not successful, then I seek advice.