Health promotion and disease prevention are overlapping yet distinct processes that guide the Healthy People 2030 initiative. Nurses play an important role in both health promotion and disease prevention

Nurses select and perform health promotion and disease prevention interventions at the individual and community levels. The nurse can use the five key action areas of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to guide interventions.

disease prevention — specific interventions geared toward decreasing the burden of both communicable and noncommunicable diseases and their associated risk factors. health promotion — the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. preventive care — routine health care including screenings, check-ups, and counseling to prevent illness, disease, or health-related problems. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion — provided a common, socio-ecologic definition of health promotion in 1986.