5.6: Key Terms
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- advocacy
- act of pleading for a cause, idea, or policy
- ethics committee
- appointed committee that provides support and guidance with ethical dilemmas to promote sound decision-making
- fidelity
- duty to faithfully uphold one’s commitments
- health disparities
- preventable differences that underserved populations experience related to disease, injury, or violence that can negatively impact health
- health education
- various learning experiences designed to promote behaviors that facilitate health
- morality
- person’s or society’s idea of what is right or wrong; usually associated with one’s behavior
- multimodal
- having or using a variety of methods
- self-determination
- moral and legal right to determine what will be done with and to an individual’s person