What term means practices promoting health and wellness?

• A. Vital Signs
• B. Complementary Medicine
• C. Self-Care Behaviors
• D. HIPAA

Answer: (C)

The main idea is identifying actions people take to maintain and improve their health. Self-care behaviors are the daily and ongoing activities individuals perform to promote wellness and prevent illness—things like eating balanced meals, getting regular exercise, getting enough sleep, managing stress, avoiding risky behaviors, and following doctors’ recommendations. This broad set of actions best fits “practices promoting health and wellness” because it focuses on what people do themselves to stay healthy.

In contrast, vital signs are specific measurements of health status (such as pulse, blood pressure, temperature) taken at a moment in time, not a set of ongoing wellness practices. Complementary medicine refers to non-mainstream therapies used alongside conventional care, not the general category of everyday health-promoting actions. HIPAA is a privacy regulation protecting patient information, which is unrelated to health-promoting behaviors.