this research. Johnson (1990, p. 210) inferred that behavioral system imbalance may be equated with illness, while behavioral system balance may be equated with wellness.
Health, thus, is perceived as a state of soundness in a person's physical and metal functioning. The inference of this perception is that the person's system is in balance.
Community health is viewed as a concept involving an outreach that beings healthcare services to clients, as opposed to institutionally based nursing that requires clients to cover the distance both spatial and emotional between themselves and healthcare services (Thomas, 1990, p. 79). Significant components of community health, as the concept is perceived by the developer of the general nursing services plan for West High School, are (1) access to services, (2) provision of appropriate healthcare, (3) detection and correction of abusive factors experienced by clients, and (4) respect for client rights.
Community health, thus, is more than a disease epidemic, or an AIDS crisis, and community health policies concern more than the programs required to deal with such epidemics and crises. "Health is not a 'state' to be captured and dealt with; nor is it some achievement to be attained with finality. It is rather the response of people to their environments" (Milio, 1991, p. 3). Community health, therefore, is concerned with both the health status of individuals, and all of the environmental factors that affect individual health. The general nursing services plan for West High School, therefore, will, in addition to promoting the health of individual students, will also attempt to develop interventions to deal effectively with aspects of student environment that affect individual health.
Nursing is conceived as a response to an individual's need for healthcare services (Orem, 1985, p. 54). This response includes by the provision of healthcare services and the management of those ...