Since the dawn of civilization, the notion of health has always been an integral part of human life and daily functioning. However, over the years, the concept itself has become relatively advanced in terms of its constituents. Previously, the idea of the healthy person tackled the physical aspect of an individual’s well-being solely. Thus, as far as healthcare interventions were concerned, the patient’s state used to be evaluated through the prism of either presence or absence of a physical health hazard (Badash et al., 2017). As a result, the nurse’s role was limited to medical interventions and patients’ supervision. However, in the past decades, the rapid expansion of the health semantics and the introduction of public health as a vital part of health care have led to the complete modification of the nurse’s role in the setting.
One of the most significant milestones in the health concept is the inclusion of emotional well-being and the patient’s environment as crucial for the treatment plan. Thus, to promote the well-being of a patient, practitioners should now take into account a variety of external factors and address them. The issue especially concerns public advocacy for both physical and mental aspects. If previously, health promotion was regarded exclusively as means of survival, today’s term interpretation advocates for living one’s daily life as happily as possible in terms of health state (Badash et al., 2017). For this reason, nurses are to pay close attention to the patterns of people’s lifestyles to promote well-being through empirically proven data. In such a way, the notion of health loses its negative connotation associated with treatment and medical facilities and shifts towards health embracement daily.
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Badash, I., Kleinman, N. P., Barr, S., Jang, J., Rahman, S., & Wu, B. W. (2017). Redefining health: The evolution of health ideas from antiquity to the era of value-based care.Cureus, 9(2).