Health Potentials vs. Health Problems

IIA. FIRST LEVEL ASSESSMENT: HEALTH POTENTIALS | HEALTH PROBLEMS | WELLNESS CONDITIONS:1. Correct and healthful nutritional or eating habitsCues: * Adequate food intake of all family members both in quantity and quality * Family’s diet is more on vegetable and poultry rather than junk foods or red meat. * Eats 3 times a day2. Absence of stress provoking factorsCues: * Smooth interpersonal relationship between and among family members, occasional conflicts occur but is immediately resolved. * Good parent-sibling relationship as evidenced by open discussion of problems with parents.3. Appropriate Role AssumptionCues: * The members of the family participate and assume their part when it comes to financial matters and others. * Children go to school and help out in the farm or do household chores.4. Healthy lifestyles and personal habits or practicesCues: * Occasionally drinks minimal amount of alcohol * Wears slippers or foot wears * Washes and cooks food properly * Good personal hygiene * Does not practice self-medication – family member who has co-morbid condition has a maintenance which was prescribed by their doctor * Does not use any dangerous or non-prescription drugs * Absence of sexual promiscuity * No family member engages in dangerous sports * Adequate sleep * Adequate relaxation exercises 5. Sanitary food handling and preparationCues: * Since Mrs. Juana Lapik is a graduate of a health related profession and she is usually the one who cooks food for the family, she sees to it that proper handling of food is observed.6. Family size is not a problem with family resourcesCues: * Family members help through financial support and others, help their parents in farming. * Cousins also help in their farm while studying.7. Minimal Accident Hazards but family regularly practices safety precautionsCues: * Sharps are kept in the right place and not scattered. * The house is a bungalow-type which means no presence of