This government agency is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.
The FDA or Food and Drug Administration
These are specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve aspects of your health.
Health Skills
The reaction of body and mind to everyday challenges and demands.
Stress
This is a written or spoken media message designed to interest consumers in purchasing a product.
Advertising
This is taking action to influence others to address a health related concern or to support a health related belief.
Advocacy
This is defined as a request to return, exchange, or replace a product after a manufacturer or consumer watch group discovers defects that could hinder performance, harm consumers, or produce legal issues for the producers.
A Recall
These are communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values.
Refusal Skills
This is a company's or a store's written agreement to repair a product or refund your money if the product doesn't function properly.
Warranty
This is someone who purchases or uses health products or services.
Health consumer
Those things that you aim for that take planning and work.
Goals
This refers to the number of participants or observations included in a study. This number is usually represented by n. This influences two statistical properties: 1) the precision of our estimates and 2) the power of the study to draw conclusions.
Sample Size
The process of ending an argument or incident through cooperation and problem solving.
Conflict resolution
The sale or distribution of worthless products or services that claim to prevent disease or cure other health problems.
Health Fraud
These are people or groups whose sole purpose is take on regional, national, and even international issues to protect individuals in goods and services.
Consumer Advocates
This is a goal you can reach in a smaller piece of time.
Short term goals
This refers to the overarching strategy, means, and logistics involved in completing your study.
Methodology
Skills that help you compartmentalize and manage adversity in your life.
Stress Management Skills
Malpractice
Judging the benefits of different products by comparing several factors such as features and costs
Comparison Shopping
These are goals you can achieve over an extended period of time
Long Term Goals
This process is searching for more information about a source, article, or argument while you are examining it; you are checking for currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy, and purpose
Lateral Reading
The exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people.
The ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live.
Values
This is Mr. Rusk's favorite drink:
Tea
This is a multistep strategy to identify and achieve your goals.
Action plan