Powerpoint : Family Health Promotion

What is the definition of a family?

a family is a group of interacting individuals (by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption) who interdependently fulfill roles and perform functions

What does family function include?

• it includes health-related practices and values that shape individual and collective wellness

Health practices are learned and modeled within what?

• the family structure

Family dynamics influence what?

• nutrition, hygiene, coping, activity 

• risk behaviors (e.g.. tobacco, alcohol)

Nurses assess family patterns to guide what?

• to guide health promotion and disease prevention

Families are open systems interacting with what stressors?

• intrapersonal stressors

• interpersonal stressors

• extrapersonal stressors

What is intrapersonal stressors?

• within individual members

What is interpersonal stressors?

• between family members

What is extrapersonal stressors?

external forces like environment, finances, access to care

What are the five variables of Neuman’s system model?

• physiological 

• psychological

• sociocultural

• developmental

• spiritual

What are the goals of health promotion?

• strengthen family lines of defense

• maintain or restore system stability

• apply primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies