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What is the difference between health promotion and disease prevention?
Health promotion: approach motivated, proactive, increase well-being and actualize human
health potential
Disease Prevention: avoidance motivated, proactive and reactive, actively avoid illness, detect it
early, or maintain functioning within the constraints of illness
What is the primary disease prevention?
1. Prevent the onset of disease
2. Health Promotion
3. Education, counseling, immmunizations
What is secondary disease prevention?
1. Identify and treat patients early or with risk factors
2. Screenings, mammography, lipid profile
What is tertiary disease prevention?
1. Management of patients with established disease
2. Minimize complications
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What is health promotion geared towards?
1. Individual
2. Family
3. Community
4. Nation and globe
Describe the individual part of health promotion
Health is physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual
Well being: positive emotions and life satisfaction
Describe the family part of health promotion
Critical role in developing health care beliefs that follow the individual throughout lifespan and
in giving ongoing support during times of illness
Examples of chronic diseases
1. heart disease
2. Stroke
3. Cancer
4. Diabetes
5. Arthritis
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6. Obesity
What state has the highest rate of obesity in the US?
West Virginia
What are genograms used for?
Helps recognize inherited health/ disease risks, learn lifestyle patterns, and patterns of illnesses
How do you benefit from community actions?
Pooled resources, information exchange, social support systems, broad media for information
distribution
What is the Healthy people 2020?
It provides science-based, 10 year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans
and has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time
What is the purpose of Healthy people 2020?
1. To encourage collaboration across communities and sectors
2. Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions
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