Health Promotion question n answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Health PromotionHealth behaviors. - correct answer - Actions people take to understand their health state, maintain their health or prevent illness and injury - Example: routine physical exams Health promotion: definition. - correct answer - Those activities that *assist people in developing resources* that maintain or enhance well-being and improve their quality of life Health promotion: purpose. - correct answer - *Focus on the person's potential for wellness* and to *encourage appropriate alterations in personal habits, lifestyle, and environment* in ways that reduce risks and enhance health and well-being - Research has shown that *people will influence their own health* (by virtue of what they do or fail to do) - Health promotion is an active process (it is not something that can be prescribed or dictated) and *only the individual can make these choices* - Today, many of the *major causes of illness are chronic diseases that have been closely related to lifestyle behaviors* Health promotion: purpose: life span. - correct answer - Starts before birth and extends through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age - Maternal: starts during pregnancy; vitamins, labs, stool softeners - Children: screenings, immunizations