. Nasrollah Alimohammadi; . Fariba Taleghani
Volume 5, Issue 5 , December 2015, , Pages 1-8
Abstract
Introduction: Health and healthy human being as a core concept of nursing have attractedconsiderable attention in the Western literature but have received less attention in the contextof ...
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Introduction: Health and healthy human being as a core concept of nursing have attractedconsiderable attention in the Western literature but have received less attention in the contextof Eastern philosophy contexts. Methods: This study was done based on philosophical inquiry;this method could be accomplished by means of different approaches like philosophical analysisthrough concept analysis. There are different methods for concept analysis. Mors’s methodwas employed to analyze the concept of health and healthy human being, we sought to clarifythem according to ideas deriving from the Islamic thought. To achieve the research objective,Islamic texts were studied and analyzed based on the criteria of concept analysis (definition,attributes/characteristics, and beaneries). Results: Our analysis revealed in the Islamicthought human being is an integrated entity. Therefore, his health not only consists of eachsingle dimension, but also the full health together with the health of society gets meaning ina balanced and coordinated set. Conclusion: Based on the results, in this study, there area series of similarities and differences with the perspectives of health in Islamic thought andholism paradigm available in nursing.
