National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Health Promotion
Synonyms

Mindfulness Health Promotion

Health Promotion and Wellness

Health Promotion

Health Promotion (Salutogenesis)

Salutogenesis

Definitions

The realization that individual behavior plays a key role in health and disease prevention. Health promotion encourages individuals to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors (e.g., good eating habits and regular physical exercise) and modify unhealthy behaviors (e.g., quitting smoking) to foster healing and reduce the risks of major chronic diseases.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C15243

code

C15243

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C116977

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C118169

Contributing_Source

CTRP

DEFINITION

The realization that individual behavior plays a key role in health and disease prevention. Health promotion encourages individuals to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors (e.g., good eating habits and regular physical exercise) and modify unhealthy behaviors (e.g., quitting smoking) to foster healing and reduce the risks of major chronic diseases.

Display_Name

Health Promotion

FULL_SYN

Mindfulness Health Promotion

Health Promotion and Wellness

Health Promotion

Health Promotion (Salutogenesis)

Salutogenesis

label

Health Promotion

Legacy Concept Name

Health_Promotion_Salutogenesis

NCI_META_CUI

CL388709

Preferred_Name

Health Promotion

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C15243

Semantic_Type

Health Care Activity

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C15898

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