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Health Promotion, Nursing Roles, and Disease Prevention

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Summary

Health promotion helps people and communities gain greater control over their health and improve their well-being. It includes more than preventing illness: it can support physical, mental, and social wellness even when no specific disease is the focus.

The widely accepted description from the World Health Organization’s Ottawa Charter defines health promotion as the process of empowering people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It addresses physical, mental, and social well-being.

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What is health promotion?
Health promotion is the process of empowering people to increase control over and improve their health, including physical, mental, and social well-being.
Why is health described as a resource for everyday life?
Health helps people meet needs, pursue goals, and participate in everyday activities; it is not merely an end point or the sole objective of living.
What is the difference between active and passive health promotion?
Active health promotion involves a person taking direct action, such as brushing their teeth. Passive health promotion is built into an environment, such as fluoride added to public water.
What are the six dimensions of health promotion behaviors?
Responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, interpersonal relations, spiritual growth, and stress management.
What is disease prevention?
Disease prevention uses individual- and population-based interventions to reduce disease burden and associated risk factors.

Quiz questions

  1. How does the Ottawa Charter describe health promotion?Answer: It is the process of empowering people to increase control over and improve their health.
  2. Which three dimensions of well-being are explicitly included in health promotion?Answer: Physical, mental, and social well-being.
  3. Which description best defines disease prevention?Answer: Interventions that reduce disease burden and associated risk factors.
  4. What is an intersectoral approach to health promotion?Answer: Collaboration among several sectors of society to improve health.
  5. When acting as an advocate, what can a nurse support?Answer: Access to health care, prevention, and other health-related needs.

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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