NUR 257 Exam 8

NUR 257 Exam 8
1. health promotion
Answer
definition activities/strategiesthat assist people in developing resources that maintain or enhance
well-being and improve their quality of life goal to encourage people to achieve the level of
wellness as high as possible so they can live maximally healthy lives and avoid preventable
illness/injury/complications/death
2. primary prevention
Answer
active immunity
active
results when exposures to a dis- ease organism triggers the immune system to produce
antibodies to that disease
-can be acquired through natural or vaccine-induced
natural
acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease
vaccine-induced
acquired through the introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through
vaccination