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Wellness-illness continuum is the scale we move up and down - wellness at the top and severe illness at the bottom. Dunn"s theory of high-level wellness: there is a continuum of health and wellness (referred to as the health axis) and a vertical axis to represent the person"s environment - four quadrants. Protected poor health: environment is favorable, health is not. Poor health: both health and environment are not favorable. Emergent high-level wellness: environment is not favorable, health is favorable. High-level wellness: both the environment and health are favorable. Healthy people 2020 provides science-based health goals and objectives to improve national health and prevent disease (revised every 10 years. Health literacy refers to the ability of individuals to understand basic health information and to use that information to make good decisions about their health (referred to as the newest vital sign ) Only 12% of the population has a proficient health literacy score.

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