Malnutrition Nursing Theory and Nutritional Status

Socio Cultural Determinants that Affect Nutritional Status (of elderly above sixty years of age and children below five years of age) in Barangay Banga, Talisay, Batangas Introduction The effects of malnutrition on human performance, health and survival have been the subject of extensive research for several decades and studies show that malnutrition affects physical growth, morbidity, mortality, cognitive development, reproduction, and physical work capacity. Malnutrition is an underlying factor in many diseases in both children and adults, and it contributes greatly to the disability-adjusted life years worldwide. Malnutrition is caused by various factors, which includes an individual s vulnerability to health disorders due to†¦show more content†¦Madeleine Leininger Madeleine Leininger underlines the meaning and importance of culture in explaining an individual’s health and caring behaviour, and her Culture Care Theory is the only nursing theory that focuses on culture. (Rosenbaum 1997.) Leininger became convinced about the need for a theoretical framework to discover, explain, and predict dimensions of care, and developed the Culture Care Theory as the outcome of studies performed in numerous Western and non-Western cultures. (Leininger 1997.) In her Culture Care Theory, Leininger states that caring is the essence of nursing and unique to nursing. Leininger actually criticizes the four nursing metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health and nursing (Fawcett 1989.) First, Leininger considers nursing a discipline and a profession, and the term ‘nursing’ thus cannot explain the phenomenon of nursing. Instead, care has the greatest epistemic and ontologic explanatory power to explain nursing. Leininger (1995a) views ‘caring’ as the verb counterpart to the noun ‘care’ and refers it to a feeling of compassion, interest and concern for people (Leininger 1970, Morse et al. 1990, Reynolds 1995, McCance et al. 1997). 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