Unit 1: Vocabulary- Health Promotion
Health belief model
A conceptual framework that describes a person's health behavior as an expression of health beliefs. The model was designed to predict a person's health behavior, including the use of health services, and to justify intervention to alter maladaptive health behavior.
Health
A condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition. It is not a static condition. Constant change and adaptation to stress result in homeostasis.
Wellness
A dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external environments.
Risk Factor
A factor that causes a person or a group of people to be particularly susceptible to an unwanted, unpleasant, or unhealthful event such as immunosuppression, which increases the incidence and severity of infection.
Tertiary prevention
A level of preventive medicine that deals with the rehabilitation and return of a patient to a status of maximum usefulness with a minimum risk of recurrence of a physical or mental disorder.
Secondary prevention
A level of preventive medicine that focuses on early diagnosis, use of referral services, and rapid initiation of treatment to stop the progress of disease processes or a handicapping disability.
Health promotion
A nursing outcome from the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) defined as personal actions to sustain or increase wellness.
Primary Prevention
A program of activities directed at improving general well-being while also involving specific protection for selected diseases, such as immunization against measles.
Active strategies of health promotion
Activities that depend on the patient's being motivated to adopt a specific health program.
Illness
An abnormal process in which aspects of the social, physical, emotional, or intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired, compared with that person's previous condition.
Chronic Illness
Any disorder that persists over a long period and affects physical, emotional, intellectual, vocational, social, or spiritual functioning.
Acute illness
Any illness characterized by signs and symptoms that are of rapid onset and short duration. It may be severe and impair normal functioning of the patient.
Health behaviors
Positive or Negative
Illness Behavior
The manner in which individuals monitor the structure and functions of their own bodies, interpret symptoms, take remedial action, and make use of health care facilities.
