Health Promotion, wellness, and disease prevention

Culture

The learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways of a particular group that guide their thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways.

Disease Prevention

Specific, population-based and individual-based interventions for primary and secondary (early detection) prevention, aiming to minimize the burden of diseases and associated risk factors.

Health Education

Learning experiences designed to improve the health of an individual or community through increased knowledge or by influencing attitudes.

Health Outcomes

The result of health promotion and disease prevention measures, empowering individuals to make healthier decisions.

Health Promotion

The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.

Modifiable Risk Factors

Behaviors and actions that can affect a client’s risk for developing a disease.

Nonmodifiable Risk Factors

Risk factors that cannot be changed.

Prevention

The action of stopping something from happening.

Primary Prevention

The act of intervening before negative health effects occur.

Secondary Prevention

To reduce the impact of disease or injury, and limit disability.

Self-Care

An inclusive group of activities nurses can utilize to promote one's mental health and overall well-being.

Wellness

A positive state of health.