title: The family health system as an emerging paradigmatic view for nursing.
abstract: This paper explores the phenomena of family health from a nursing perspective by examining the view of health in the discipline of nursing, and the view of family health in multiple disciplines. A holistic definition of family health for nursing is proposed which includes five realms of family experience which make up the family health system. The proposed classification is offered as a beginning heuristic model to organize knowledge generation for use in the practice of family nursing.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Tomlinson
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005192:Family Health; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing