ECOLOGIC MODEL

Interpretation and analysis:

This is useful for examining causes of disease in an individual. It is useful in predicting illness
rather than promoting wellness, although identification of risk factors that result from the interaction of
agent, host environment are helpful in promoting and maintaining health. Because each of the agent-host-
environment factors constantly interacts with others, health is an ever-changing state. The agent, host and
environment interact in ways that create risk factors, and understanding these is important for the
promotion and maintenance of health. An agent is an environmental factor or stressor that must be present
or absent for an illness to occur. A host is a living organism capable of being infected or affected by an
agent. The host reaction is influenced by family history, age, and health habits.
! is a "# year old male who lived in complained of difficulty of breathing last $uly %&, '&().
*atient have productive cough, associated with hoarseness, loss of appetite, weight loss and dysphagia.
The client usually smoked ( box of cigarettesper day and drinks alcohol. Bacteria t that lives in clients
nose, mouth, sinuses, or the surrounding environment entered the lungs and create pneumonia.
+odification of lifestyle including drinking enough amount of water ,at least # glasses- a day,
limiting intake of soft drinks and salty foods, exercising daily and eating a lot of vegetables as well as
fish ,which means decrease consumption of cholesterol laden foods- is highly recommended to alleviate
if not eradicate the condition of the patient. In addition, regular checkups would monitor the patient.s
health condition and would more likely prevent the aggravation of the disease.
/moke
Alcohol
Bacterial
Pneumonia,
Streptococcus
pneumoniae
(pneumococcus)
!, male "# y0o
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY:
Predisposing Factor
Age
Sex
Precipitating Factor
Lifestyle
Contributing
Factors
Bacteria
Streptococcus
pneumoniae
Organism enters
the respiratory tract
through
inspiration/aspiratio
n
Alteration in net bacterial lung
resistance caused by either:
ecreased bactericidal
ability of the al!eolar
macrophages
"xtreme !irulence of the
bacteria
#ncreased susceptibility of
host to infection
Acute in$ammation occurs that causes
excess %ater and plasma proteins go to
the dependent areas of the lo%er lobes
&BCs' (brin' and polymorphonuclear
leu)ocytes in(ltrate the al!eoli
Larnyngeal mass t/c Pneumonia