Health
Vocabulary
Influences on Health
Areas of Health
Premature Death
100

This is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

What is health?

100

The way you act in different situations and events in your life.

What is behavior?

100

How much you know about health.

What is health knowledge?

100

Your brain, how it works and how you learn.

What is mental/intellectual health?

100

The leading cause of death for teens.

What are injuries?

200

This part of your health is not based on lifestyle choices, but can have a large influence your health.

What is heredity?

200

This is the double arrow spectrum that is a visual depiction of anything from premature death to optimal well-being.

What is the health continuum?

200

How well you are able to verbally express your thoughts.

What are your communication skills

200

How you feel (happy, sad, stressed, loving, etc) and how you manage this area of your health.

What are your emotions?

200

The leading cause of death for adults.

What is heart disease?

300

These are your behaviors and habits that can affect your health either + or -.

What are lifestyle factors/choices?

300

the result from an action or decision.

What is consequence?

300

The quality of your total surroundings; air, living conditions, safety, temperature, etc

What is environment?

300

Your job(s) and how they affect your health.

What is occupational health?

300

The average life expectancy for adults in the US.

What is 78.6 years?

400

This is an "active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life."

What is wellness?

400

Behaviors with intentional or unintentional injury, tobacco use/abuse, lack of exercise and diet choices that lead to disease are examples of this.

What aare categories of teen health behaviors?

400

Unplanned and many time unpreventable occurrences that can influence health.

What are random events in your life?

400

This area of health is how you handle relationships.

What is social health?

400

The taking of one's own life.

What is suicide?

500

The level of health and satisfaction a person has in their life.

What is Quality of Life?

500

Explain the difference between precaution and prevention

Precaution is  consciously taking action to reduce the likelihood of injury/harm.

Prevention is eliminating the risk of injury or harm.

500

These two factors are your choices and the ways you act.

What are your decisions and your behaviors?

500

These two areas of health are

-your belief in a higher being/power

and -your ability to have enough money to meet your life standard of living

What are spiritual and financial?

500

Similarities in the majority of leading causes of death.

What is that they have the potential of prevention through lifestyle factors/choices?

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