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Origin: Origin: Chapter Chapter 1, 1 1. The nurse prov The nurse providing fam iding family-centered care in a hospital sett d care in a hospital setting refle ing reflects on the focus of cts on the focus of the health care the health care provided in today's provided in today's society society. Which statement . Which statement best describes the current definition of health !" #ealth is described as 'an absence of disease.' $" #ealth is measured by monitoring mortality and morbidity of a group. C" #ealth is a state of complete physical, mental, and social %ell-being. &" Technological gains made in health care are shared eually among all children. !ns: C Feedback: (n the past, health %as defined simply as the absence of disease) health %as measured by monitoring the mortality and morbidity of a group. Over the past century, ho%ever the past century, ho%ever, the focus of health has shifted to disease prevention, health promotion, and %ellness. The alth promotion, and %ellness. The World #ealth Organi*ation +1" de orld #ealth Organi*ation +1" defines health as / fines health as /a state of complete physical, a state of complete physical, mental, and social %ell-being, and not mental, and social %ell-being, and not merely the a merely the absence of disease or infirmity./ The bsence of disease or infirmity./ The gains in child health have b gains in child health have been huge, but, unfortun een huge, but, unfortunately, these gains are not s ately, these gains are not shared eually among all children.