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Week 2 Health Care Terms Worksheet

Understanding health care terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course.

Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines:

In the space provided, write each term’s definition. You must define the term in your own words.
In the space provided after each term’s definition, use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry. You may wish to consider the following:

How has it influenced heath care?
What role has the term played as health care developed over the years?

Save the completed worksheet as a Microsoft® Word document with your name in the file name.

Submit the file to your facilitator.
Ing illnesses.
Submitted by: [Monica A. Smith]

|Term |Definition |Use the term in a sentence as it applies to the health care |
| | |industry. |
|Health Promotion |Informative services about general health |When I was pregnant there was an abundance of health |
| |amongst communities. |promotion services available for expecting mothers. |
|Disease Prevention |Methods of preventing various diseases and|Disease prevention was one of the course that were a required|
| |illnesses. |part of the course training for the military. |
|Diagnosis |Determination of illness. |It's always good to get a second opinion because your first |
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