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Health Promotion Glossary

25 essential terms — because precise language is the foundation of clear thinking in Health Promotion.

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A collaborative research approach that equitably involves community members in all phases of the research process.

Related:Community EngagementAction ResearchHealth Equity

A theory explaining how new ideas, practices, and technologies spread through social systems over time.

Related:Everett RogersAdoptionEarly Adopters

The process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health.

Related:Community ParticipationSelf-EfficacyHealth Promotion

A behavioral model predicting health actions based on perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, barriers, cues to action, and self-efficacy.

Related:Self-EfficacyPerceived SusceptibilityBehavior Change

The principle that everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.

Related:Social Determinants of HealthHealth DisparitiesSocial Justice

A systematic process to evaluate the potential health effects of a proposed policy, program, or project before implementation.

Related:Policy AnalysisEnvironmental AssessmentEvidence-Based Practice

An approach that integrates health considerations into decision-making across all sectors and policy areas.

Related:Intersectoral CollaborationPublic PolicySocial Determinants of Health

The capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information needed for appropriate health decisions.

Related:Health EducationPatient CommunicationHealth Equity

The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health through individual, community, and policy-level interventions.

Related:Ottawa CharterEmpowermentHealth Education

A WHO initiative encouraging urban areas to place health on their political and social agendas through intersectoral action, community participation, and equity.

Related:Urban HealthSettings-Based ApproachOttawa Charter

A collaborative counseling technique that strengthens a person's own motivation and commitment to change.

Related:OARSBehavior ChangeTranstheoretical Model

The 1986 WHO charter that defined health promotion and its five key action areas for improving population health.

Related:Health PromotionWHOHealthy Public Policy

A comprehensive planning and evaluation framework for health promotion and disease prevention programs.

Related:Program PlanningLawrence GreenNeeds Assessment

Strategies aimed at preventing disease before it occurs, such as vaccination, health education, and risk factor reduction.

Related:Secondary PreventionTertiary PreventionDisease Prevention

An approach focusing on factors that create and sustain health rather than on factors that cause disease.

Related:Sense of CoherenceAaron AntonovskyWellness

Strategies aimed at early detection and treatment of disease to halt progression, such as screening programs.

Related:Primary PreventionScreeningEarly Detection

A person's belief in their ability to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific outcomes.

Related:Social Cognitive TheoryAlbert BanduraHealth Belief Model

Antonovsky's concept describing the extent to which life is perceived as comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful.

Related:SalutogenesisResilienceCoping Resources

A health promotion strategy that targets specific environments such as schools, workplaces, and cities to create health-supporting conditions.

Related:Healthy CitiesWorkplace WellnessHealth Promoting Schools

A theory positing that learning occurs through the dynamic interaction of personal factors, behavior, and the environment (reciprocal determinism).

Related:Albert BanduraSelf-EfficacyObservational Learning

The economic, social, and environmental conditions that influence individual and population health outcomes.

Related:Health EquityUpstream InterventionsHealth in All Policies

A framework recognizing that health behaviors are influenced by individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy-level factors.

Related:Upstream InterventionsSettings-Based ApproachCommunity Health

Strategies aimed at managing established disease to minimize disability and complications, such as rehabilitation programs.

Related:Disease ManagementRehabilitationChronic Disease

A model of behavior change describing five stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.

Related:Stages of ChangeMotivational InterviewingSelf-Efficacy

Health promotion strategies that address root causes of poor health at the societal and environmental level rather than targeting individual behaviors.

Related:Social Determinants of HealthPublic PolicyDownstream Interventions
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