Research Issues The Different Views of Health

Health is an enigma, both from a theoretical and a research perspective. The enigmatic na-ture of health gives evidence of its lack of verification as an empirical fact and objective phenomenon (Balog, 1982). Currently, there are no universal norms of health; perceptions vary across individuals and cultures, depend-ing on the meaning and importance people give to it. This allows for many definitions of health; people presuppose what health is and offer definitions congruent with their world-views. This enigma is evident by the multiple definitions of health found in the extant nurs-ing models; each nurse theorist views it differ-ently.