A client comes to the clinic seeking information regarding smoking cessation classes and ways to improve respiratory function. This client is modeling which behavior?
1. Health promotion
2. Health protection
3. Tertiary prevention
4. Primary prevention
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Health promotion is behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential.
Rationale 2: Health protection or illness prevention is "behavior motivated by a desire to actively avoid illness, detect it early, or maintain functioning within the constraints of illness." Expressing a desire to quit smoking would be modeling this behavior. The information we are given does not tell us if the client has pathology or not, but the client certainly has been exposed to a health hazard.
Rationale 3: Tertiary prevention measures focus on restoration and rehabilitation–it is not a behavior.
Rationale 4: Primary prevention measures focus on health promotion it is not a behavior.
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