NUR 257 Exam 8
- health promotion
Answer
definition activities/ strategies that 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
- 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 1 / 2
- primary intervention
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passive immunity
passive provided when a person is given antibodies to a disease rather than producing them through their own immune system
ex
a fetus receives immunity from placenta ex
IVIG (blood products)
ex
from breastmilk
advantage
has immediate protection, but only lasts a few weeks
- secondary prevention
- / 2
