Family Health And Social Care

Chapter One
Introduction

1.1. Introduction: Throughout intensive review of literature, It has been realized that the family is considered as the essential social foundation due to its important functions of creation and socialization and because it is found, in some forms, in all societies. Family, as a term, is utilized in everyday language whose meaning is analogous with the culturally and historically specific social practices to which it denotes. The family is also considered a universal social life of particular culture and eras. Its activities have an impact upon the maintenance of the social structure of the society, of which it is a part, focus on biological and demographic structures (Vasundhra, 2008).
The family health has been well deliberated as one of the worldwide critical and central issues. The decisive effect of family health and wellness on overall family well-being and quality of life has been recognized by scholars and practitioners from family and medical sciences, as well as many in the general public. Many of these scholars and practitioners have agreed that the family health goes beyond nonexistence of disease and dysfunction, and therefore accept a more multidimensional representation of being healthy and well (Paul and Walton, 2008).

The family’s experience of family health have been described relative to five dominions of system level phenomena and in terms of processes in the areas of interaction, integrity, coping, development, and health. Family health nursing care can also be demonstrated as the process of providing families with health care services within the scope of nursing practice (Anderson and Tomlinson,