Building Health skills
specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health. (Also known as life skills)
Health skills
This means taking charge of your own health, means you act in ways to protect your health and promote your own well-being.
Self-Management
a written or spoken media message designed to interest consumers in purchasing a product or service.
Advertising
the beliefs that guide the way a person lives
Values
Being true to your ethical values
Integrity
the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people
Interpersonal communication
the reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands.
Stress
judging the benefits of different products by comparing several factors such as quality, features, and cost.
Comparison shopping
choosing to take the right action
Ethical
Inspires you to think or act a certain way
Role Model
Communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or may go against your values.
Refusal skills
skills that help you reduce and manage stress in your life.
Stress management skills
a company's or store's written agreement to repair a product or refund your money if the product doesn't function.
Warranty
A goal that you plan to achieve over a long period of time.
Long term goal
An acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary
Habit
Process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving.
Conflict Resolution
taking action to influence others to address a health related concern or to support a health related belief.
Advocacy
failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards.
Malpractice
A goal that you can achieve in a short amount of time.
Short term goal
standards on which to base decisions
Criteria
people or groups whose sole purpose is to take on regional, national, and even international consumer issues
Consumer advocates
someone who purchases or uses health products or services to make informed buying decisions
Health consumer
the sale of worthless products or services that claim to prevent disease or cure other health problems.
Health fraud
The way a person thinks, feels, and acts.
Character
obeys rules, laws, practices advocacy
Citizenship