PROMOTION EXAM Q&A STUDY GUIDE
VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ Health Promotion. Answer: The process of enhancing people's
influence over and improvement of their health.
◉ Disease Prevention. Answer: Primary and secondary (early
detection) preventive measures aimed at reducing the burden of
disease and associated risk factors.
◉ Health Outcomes. Answer: The result of health promotion and
disease prevention measures.
◉ Wellness. Answer: A positive state of health.
◉ Healthy People Initiatives. Answer: National health promotion and
disease prevention objectives developed every ten years to improve
the health of all Americans.
◉ Launch Year of Healthy People Initiatives. Answer: 1979
◉ Original Focus of Healthy People Initiatives. Answer: Reducing
preventable death and injury.