Concept information
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health and social care
health care management
health care facilities, manpower, and services
health promotion
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hospital and community health services
community health services
preventive health services
health promotion
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hospital and community health services
community health services
preventive health services
health promotion
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hospital and community health services
community health services
preventive health services
health promotion
Preferred term
health promotion and disease prevention
Definition
- Health promotion and disease prevention for older adults are two very different enterprises in contemporary America. Health promotion takes place primarily on one's own or is conducted in the community under the guidance of a wide variety of practitioners who may or may not be licensed or certified. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health & Aging; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 5 A Day for Better Health Program
- blood pressure, hypertension, and stress
- cancer and diet
- cancer and physical activity
- cancer and smoking
- cancer prevention
- cancer screening
- cardiovascular disease prevention: community-level interventions
- church-based interventions
- community coalitions
- diffusion of innovation
- drug abuse: prevention
- ecological models: application to physical activity
- evidence-based behavioral medicine
- expressive writing and health
- health care costs and behavior
- health communication
- health literacy
- heart disease and diet
- heart disease and physical activity
- heart disease and reactivity
- heart disease and smoking
- heart disease and type A behavior
- hopelessness and health
- hostility and health
- injury prevention in children
- National Cholesterol Education Programme
- obesity: causes and consequences
- obesity in children: physical activity and nutritional approaches
- obesity: prevention and treatment
- occupational health and safety
- physical activity and health
- physical activity and mood
- physical activity: interventions
- pregnancy prevention in adolescents
- prevention of childhood obesity
- prevention of HIV infection
- school-based health promotion
- sexually transmitted diseases: prevention
- smoking prevention and tobacco control among youth
- support groups and health
- tailored communications
- violence prevention
- worksite health promotion
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/health_promotion_and_disease_prevention
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