Chapter 6

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Health Belief Model

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Health Promotion

Answer 3

A nursing outcome form the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) defined as personal actions to sustain or increase wellness.

Question 4

Illness Prevention

Answer 4

A system of health education programs and activities directed to protecting patients from real or potential health threats, minimizing risk factors, and promoting healthy behavior.

Question 5

Primary Prevention

Answer 5

A program of activities directed at improving general well-being while also involving specific protection for selected diseases, such as immunization against measles.

Question 6

Secondary Prevention

Answer 6

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 or a handicapping disability.

Question 7

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 7

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 a physical or mental disorder.

Question 8

Risk Factor

Answer 8

A factor that causes a person or a group of people to be particularly susceptible to an unwanted, unpleasant, or unhealthful event such as an immunosuppression, which increases the incidence and severity of infection.

Question 9

illness

Answer 9

An abnormal process in which aspects of social, physical, or intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired, compared with that person’s previous condition.

Question 10

Illness Behavior

Answer 10

The manner to which individuals monitor the structure and functions of their own bodies, interpret symptoms, take remedial action, and make use of health care facilities.