The nurse explains to a student that health promotion means
a. encouraging people to avoid unhealthy habits.
b. maintaining a preventive health schedule.
c. preventing major diseases and injuries.
d. protecting health and improving wellness.
D
Protecting health and taking people beyond their current level of wellness are the goals of health promotion.
Encouraging patients to avoid unhealthy habits is part of health promotion, but this is too narrow in focus to be the best answer.
Maintaining a preventive health schedule, such as routine checkups, is part of health promotion, but this is too narrow in focus to be the best answer.
Preventing disease is disease prevention, which is part of the clinical model of health.
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