Archives: Glossary Terms

Health Coaching

Professional guidance to achieve health goals, overlaps with wellness coaching.

Health Equity

Ensuring fair health access, addressed in wellness coaching.

Health Literacy

Ability to understand health info, improved through coaching.

Health Outcome

Measurable result of wellness coaching, e.g., lower blood pressure.

Health Promotion

Encouraging behaviors to prevent disease, a goal of wellness coaching.

Healthspan

Length of healthy life, a wellness coaching goal to extend.

Hepatitis A

Viral liver infection from contaminated food/water.

Hepatitis B

Viral liver infection via blood/sexual contact, can be chronic.