Assessing Health Risks in My Community Using Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Framework
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This paper applies Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Framework to assess health risks within a specific community. The author evaluates eleven health pattern aspects including perception-health management, nutritional-metabolic, activity-exercise, and coping-stress tolerance patterns, identifying gaps in primary care adoption and nutritional deficiencies while noting strengths in family relationships and community support systems.
What this coursework covers
- Introduction to Gordon's framework and its eleven functional health pattern aspects
- Application of each health pattern to community assessment with identified strengths and weaknesses
- Resources and requirements needed for successful community health assessment including interpreters and community guides
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Assessing Health Risks in My Community Using Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Framework
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Assessing Health Risks in My Community Using Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Framework
Gordon's framework is an excellent way of building a picture of a patient's health. The framework can be utilized to all patients regardless of ages and area of health specialty as it uncovers both dysfunction and function patterns. The framework considers the health of a patient from 11 particular aspects. Thus, it provides a broad spectrum of information, enabling healthcare providers to cognizance evolving patterns (Sudarmaji et al., 2020). In general, Gordon's framework understands that health is dynamic and keeps changing. The eleven aspects are easy to understand and use. They provide a systematic and standardized approach during data collection, enabling care providers to determine numerous health aspects. Like other frameworks, Gordon's framework has some weaknesses in that patients can manipulate data. Therefore, the framework must be used alongside the objective data to ascertain accurate health assessment as discussed.
In my assessment, not all aspects will apply. Using the Perception-Health Management pattern, I realize that individuals in the community have not embraced primary care interventions. Most wait until they are weak before seeking medical care. Through the Nutritional-Metabolic pattern, it is clear that most individuals do not observe a balanced diet and may suffer from deficiency diseases and especially in children. Also, consumption patterns of fast foods such as burgers may result in lifestyle diseases (Issel, Wells, & Williams, 2021).