Health promotion and disease prevention programs focus on keeping people healthy. Health promotion programs aim to engage and empower individuals and communities to choose healthy behaviors and make changes that reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases and other morbidities. Defined by the World Health Organization, health promotion is: "The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions."
Disease prevention differs from health promotion because it focuses on specific efforts aimed at reducing the development and severity of chronic diseases and other morbidities. Wellness is related to health promotion and disease prevention. Wellness is described as the attitudes and active decisions made by an individual that contribute to positive health behaviors and outcomes.
Health promotion and disease prevention programs often address social determinants of health, which influence modifiable risk behaviors. Social determinants of health are the economic, social, cultural, and political conditions in which people are born, grow, and live that affect health status. Modifiable risk behaviors include, for example, tobacco use, poor eating habits, and lack of physical activity, which contribute to the development of chronic disease.
1.
The word "empower" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to
A. affect
C. allow
B. pursue
D.insist
2.
What does disease prevention focus on?
A. Wide range of social and environmental interventions
B. Specific efforts reducing the development and severity of chronic diseases
C. Attitudes and active decisions made by an individual
D. Positive health behaviors and outcomes
3. The word "that" in paragraph 3 refers to
A. attitudes and active decisions B. wellness
C.health behaviors D.outcomes
4.According to the last paragraph, modifiable risk behaviors contribute to the development
A. tobacco use B.eating habits
C.physical activity D.chronic disease
5. Which best serves as the title for the passage?
A. Understanding Health Promotion
C. Defining Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
B. Social Determinants of Health
D. What do you know about disease prevention?