Leading a Healthy Life
The Components of Health
Mind & Emotions
The Communication Toolkit
Safety & Community
100
In the 1800s and early 1900s, these were the leading causes of death in the United States.

What are infectious diseases?

100

This term describes the achievement of a person's best in all six components of health.

What is wellness?

100

This is a measure of how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

What is self-esteem?

100

This is the healthiest communication style because it is direct and respectful.

What is assertive communication?

100

Sexual abuse is defined as any sexual act that happens without this.

What is consent?

200

This is anything that increases the likelihood of injury, diseases, or other health problems.

What is a risk factor?

200

This component of health refers to the quality of your relationships with friends, family, and teachers.

What is social health?

200

This characteristic involves doing what you know is right, even when pressured to do otherwise?

What is integrity?

200

This type of communication explains how you feel without blaming others, using the "I feel... when you.... because..." formula.

What is an "I" message?

200

While flirting makes you feel flattered and respected, this makes you feel uncomfortable, cornered, or ashamed.

What is sexual harassment? 

300

Age, race, gender, and heredity are all examples of this type of risk factor.

What are uncontrollable risk factors?

300

This tool represents the idea that a person is neither completely healthy nor completely unhealthy and can change daily.

What is the wellness continuum?

300

These are unconscious behaviors used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions.

What are defense mechanisms?

300

This skill is the ability to understand another person's feelings, behaviors, and attitudes.

What is empathy?

300

Society addresses health problems in these four specific ways.

What are medical advantages, technology, public policy, and education?

400
This is the single leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

What is tobacco use (smoking)?

400

This is the peak state of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, representing the achievement of the best a person can be.

What is self-actualization?

400

This specific anxiety disorder is characterized by an irrational and excessive fear of something that causes no real danger.

What is a phobia?

400

When words and this disagree, people almost always believe the nonverbal message.

What is body language?

400

This is a message created specifically to education people about a health or social issue.

What is a public service announcement (PSA)?

500

These four causes of death make up almost three-fourths of all teen deaths.

What are motor vehicle accidents, homicide, suicide, and other actions?

500

The term refers to having the knowledge of health information needed to make good choices about your health.

What is health literacy?

500

This is an illness that affects a person's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

What is a mental disorder?

500

This listening technique using your own words to restate what someone else has just said.

What is paraphrasing?

500

To do this means to speak out or argue in favor of something, such as a community health issue.

What is to advocate?

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