The nurse is teaching a class for diabetics and tells them,"Maintaining your blood glucose within normal limits helps reduce the risk for complications of diabetes." What type of activity does this class represent?

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Activities that promote health do also protect health.However,the concepts differ.Health protection is motivated by a desire to avoid illness; health promotion is more about increasing well-being.Health promotion aims at promoting optimal function of a person,whether well or ill,not on preventing specific diseases.In this scenario,the nurse is speaking to a group and is not individualizing the statement to each unique human being.Primary prevention activities are designed to prevent or delay the onset of disease; in this scenario,the clients already have a disease (diabetes).Tertiary prevention focuses on halting the progress of a disease and returning the person to pre-illness.This cannot be done for diabetes,which is a chronic disease.

The Nurse Is Teaching a Class for Diabetics and Tells