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?

A) Health promotion
B) Health protection
C) Primary prevention
D) Tertiary prevention

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.