10A NCAC 39A .0502. DEFINITIONS

The following definitions shall apply throughout this Section:

(1)           "Health promotion and disease prevention" means program activities intended to develop and promote community and individual measures which help individuals to develop lifestyles that can maintain and enhance the state of well being and to develop and promote strategies that protect the population from the consequences of the threat of disease, disability or death.

(2)           "Intervention activity" means a specific planned strategy designed to bring about a change of health status in an individual or target population.  Intervention activities are provided to a defined target population and are designed to address at least one specific health risk or problem.  Intervention activities may be designed to address:

(a)           hypertension,

(b)           cancer,

(c)           diabetes,

(d)           glaucoma,

(e)           arthritis,

(f)            epilepsy and neurological disorders,

(g)           nutrition,

(h)           weight control,

(i)            physical fitness,

(j)            accident prevention,

(k)           stress management as related to other health care,

(l)            chronic disease detection,

(m)          health assessments, and

(n)           health education.

(3)           "Program" means the Division of Adult Health, Adult Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program.

(4)           "Programmatic approach to health promotion and disease prevention" means a community‑based initiative characterized as follows:

(a)           a community is a definable geographic area,

(b)           a lead agency or organization within the community is identified and liaisons are established among community agencies to:

(i)            determine the prevalence of risk factors for populations in the community;

(ii)           establish health promotion and disease prevention objectives to address the needs of populations at risk;

(iii)          develop and implement specific intervention activities in pursuit of established objectives;

(iv)          perform a periodic reassessment and evaluation of the community‑based health promotion and disease prevention interven­tion activities.

(5)           "Target population" means a defined group of persons toward which health promotion and disease prevention services and programs will be directed as part of an intervention activity.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 130A‑223;

Eff. January 1, 1985;

Amended Eff. September 1, 1990.