FIRST AND SECOND LEVEL OF ASSESSMENT
1st Level Assessment
Presence of Health Threat
A. Family size beyond what family
resources can adequately provide
- Mother verbalizes the hardship
of having enough food for daily
living.
- Source of income is only
through farming and sometimes
through peddling of harvest.
B. Poor home and environmental
sanitation and condition:
1. Presence of breeding or
resting sites of vectors of
diseases (flies and
mosquitoes)
- Water storage in soft drink
bottles
- No toilet present
- House is filled with hoarded
materials
2. Polluted water supply
- Water supply is from rain water.
- Drinking water is not tested
- Stored in plastic bottles
C. Accident hazard: fall hazard
- The patient has seizure disorder
- They are living near a cliff
- The ground outside is slippery
- He is staying to the cooking area
D. Unhealthful lifestyle and
personal practices: poor personal
2nd Level Assessment
Inability to provide a home
environment conducive to health
maintenance due to inadequate family
resources specifically financial
constraints
Inability to provide environment
conducive to health maintenance due
to inadequate family resources
specifically financial constraints
Inability to recognize the presence of
the condition of problem due to low
salience of the problem/condition
Inability to provide a home
environment conductive to health
maintenance and personal
development due to financial
constraints and limited physical
resources.
Inability to recognize the presence of
the condition of problem due to low
hygiene salience of the problem/condition
- they don’t wash their hands and
feet
- wears dirty clothes
Inability to provide environment
Presence of Health Deficits: conducive to health maintenance due
A. Chronic illness to inadequate family resources
- He has seizure disorder specifically financial constraints
Presence of Stress Points/ Foreseeable
Crisis Situations Inability to make decisions with
A. Chronic Illness respect to taking appropriate health
- Mother verbalizes burden of action related to lack of/ inadequate
maintaining child’s Epileptic knowledge/ insight as to alternative
medications. courses of action open to them
- Mother claims having joint pain
and relying on herbal
medications to relieve it.
- Informant sustained burn
wounds and only uses water to
clean it and applies guava leaves
to soothe pain.