| A | B |
|---|
| Behavior change | Act of changing behavior such as daily flossing |
| Habit | Act of behavior change that becomes automatic, such as daily flossing |
| Health education | Instruction regarding health behaviors that bring an individual to a state of health awareness |
| Health literacy | The need for people to understand information that helps them maintain good health and the need for health systems to reduce their complexity. |
| Health promotion | Process that forms and motivates people to adopt healthy behavior to enhance their health and prevent disease |
| Values | Ideas and beliefs a person possesses that influence behavior, giving meaning to life |
| Target population | Clearly identified segment of the population |
| Wellness scale | A continuum of total health to death or a state of being from optimal health and wellenss to serious illness |
| Motivation | The will of the individual to act, is an important factor in learning |
| Modeling | facilitation of learning through imitation |
| Classic conditioning | To act in a specific way in response to a specific stimuli |
| Operant conditioning | The concept of reqarding good behavior and punishing bad behavior. |
