Intentional behaviors to circumvent illness, detect it early, and maintain the best possible level of mental and physiologic function within the boundaries of illness describe:
a. health promotion.
b. self-actualization.
c. health protection.
d. self-transcendence.
ANS: C
Health protection includes intentional behaviors aimed at circumventing illness, detecting it early, and maintaining the best possible level of mental and physiologic function within the boundaries of illness. Health promotion is behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and optimize health status. Maslow considered self-actualization the highest level of optimal functioning and involves the integration of cognition, consciousness, and physiologic utility in a single entity. In later years, Maslow described a level above self-actualization called self-transcendence. He refers to self-transcendence as a peak experience, in which analysis of reality or thought changes a person's view of the world and his or her position in the greater structure of life.
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