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Health promotion:

- Any intervention that seeks to eliminate or reduce exposure to harmful factors by modifying human behaviors

- Any combination of health education and related organizational, political and economic interventions designed to facilitate behavioral and environmental adaptations that will improve or protect health.

Disease prevention:

- Any intervention that seeks to reduce or eliminate diagnosable conditions;

- May be applied at the individual level, as in immunization, or the community level, as in the chlorination of the water supply.