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A 5 page paper discussing in 6 questions issues of health promotion and aggregate-based research. The group for study is senior citizens with heart disease, and the study will be limited to primary and tertiary prevention in the local area. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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disease prevention and health education? Anderson, Palombo and Earl (1998) quote the National Research Council Committee on Diet and Health in defining
health promotion and disease prevention. Health promotion is the collection of "personal, environmental, or social interventions that facilitate behavioral adaptations conducive to improved health, level of function, and sense
of well-being" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205). The same organization defines disease prevention as "personal, environmental, or social interventions that impede the occurrence of disease, injury, disability,
or death--or the progression of detectable but asymptomatic disease" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205). Health promotion and health education often are
used interchangeably, to the point that Cornely, Elfenbain and Macias-Moriarity (2001) simply combine them to form a third term, "health promotion education." There is a distinction, however. Using
dietary sodium as example, health education can include instruction on sodiums significance while health promotion can include a nutrition label survey of common packaged foods. In health promotion, "behavior
change is not seen ... as something to be viewed in the context of social, economic, and cultural conditions" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205). Disease prevention is
more personal, incorporating "personal health behavior change" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205) as well. 2. What are some barriers to
health promotion in your own community? Sheilds and Lindsey (1998) quote the 1986 definition of health promotion by the World Health Organization
(WHO) as stated in the Ottawa Charter. There, health promotion is defined as the "process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health" (Sheilds and
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