Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Take Aways Flashcards
Healthy People
identifies leading health indicators in the US
Health promotion
to help the client’s promote health & keep them healthy.
Health maintenance
Maintaining a current level of health
Disease prevention
instilling measures to prevent diseases (primary & secondary preventions)
Health communication
ensure proper communication with the patient, needs to be evidence based, culturally sensitive
Health education
ability to teach someone to promote health, needs an understanding of what’s being taught & the patient; Involves teaching one-one or groups
Public health policies
rules & regulations of the country, influenced by institutions, interests, & ideas
Nurse self care
Nurses must be able to care for themselves to care for others
Helps maintain emotional & physical wellbeing
Prevents burnout, moral distress, or lack of compassion
Factors influencing health
genetics, age, sex, ethnicity, family history, lifestyle.
Know patient’s sex at birth!
Modifiable risk factors
risk factors that can be changed to reduce health risks
Culture defines how -
Patient’s recieve/accept medical care
Nonmodifiable risk factors
risk factors that cannot be changed or modified & increase risk of disease
Primary Prevention
intervening before signs & symptoms to prevent onset of disease
Secondary Prevention
The detection & treatment of disease to reduce the impact of disease, injury, or limit disability
Tertiary Prevention
aims to reverse, minimize, or delay effects of a disease/disability
