Julliard Kell, Klimenko Elena, Jacob Mary S
Department of Family Practice, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Nurs Sci Q. 2006 Jul;19(3):265-71. doi: 10.1177/0894318406289575.
Providers' definitions of health may affect the kind of care they provide. This study examined healthcare practitioners' definitions of health across practitioner types. Interviews with 73 healthcare practitioners were analyzed for themes. Most practitioners identified health as the interrelatedness of several factors. Physical, mental, and spiritual factors all played important roles. Mainstream and integrative practitioners emphasized health as good functioning, absence of disease, and chronic disease under control. Integrative and alternative practitioners emphasized health as balance and as the free flow of elements such as motion and energy. All types of practitioners freely combined elements from models of health described as separate in the literature. Understanding providers' definitions of health could enhance communication among them.
医疗服务提供者对健康的定义可能会影响他们提供的护理类型。本研究考察了不同类型从业者对健康的定义。对73名医疗从业者的访谈进行了主题分析。大多数从业者将健康视为几个因素的相互关联性。身体、心理和精神因素都发挥着重要作用。主流和综合医疗从业者强调健康是功能良好、无疾病以及慢性病得到控制。综合和替代医疗从业者强调健康是平衡以及诸如运动和能量等元素的自由流动。所有类型的从业者都自由地结合了文献中描述为相互独立的健康模式中的元素。了解医疗服务提供者对健康的定义有助于增进他们之间的沟通。
