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Describe the primary goal of the practice of community and public health nutrition. ☑: disease prevention and health promotion Define the concepts of health promotion and wellness. ☑: Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals to achieve their max potential for good health (not everyone can achieve the same level of health but want to help people to get to whatever their best is) Define determinants of health. Describe how determinants of health can impact nutritional status (see table 1-1 of textbook). ☑: Range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. It is the interrelationships among these factors that determine individual and population health. Biology and genetics, lifestyle, living, working, and social conditions, community conditions, and background conditions can impact nutritional status. EXCELLENCE 2 Define the concept of "public health". Explain factors that impact the targets of public health programming over time. ☑: Fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy/ Why is public health nutrition important 1. societal goal of adequate nutrition dietary 2. contribution to leading causes of death 3. nutrition risk varies by population group 4. behavior change is not easy