What Is Health?
Two factors that can be used to evaluate health are
What is life expectancy and quality of life?
Whether you are male or female
What is gender?
Three steps you can take to help someone meet their personal health goals.
What is gaining awareness, gaining knowledge, and building skills?
The act of lying to obtain money or property.
What is fraud?
Risk factors you can control.
What are:
level of physical activity
intake of fat, sugar, or salt
use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
use of protective gear (seat belt)
your choice of friends
The aspects of health that are important to overall well-being are
What are physical, social, and mental health?
The beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation.
What is Culture?
Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes.
What is Prevention?
People who sell useless medical treatments or products are engaged in health fraud, or...
What is quackery?
Seven skills needed in order to build healthy behaviors.
Analyzing influences Settings Goals
Accessing information Practicing healthful behaviors
Communicating Advocacy
Making decisions
A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another
What is a continuum?
A behavior that is repeated so often that it becomes almost automatic.
What is a habit?
A series of specific steps you can take to achieve a goal.
What is a action plan?
Public promotion of a product or service.
What is advertising?
Three rights as a consumer
What are:
The right to information
Consumer Protection
The right to complain
A type of health that refers to how you react to events in your life
What is Emotional health?
All of the physical and social conditions that surround a person and can influence that person's health.
What is environment?
Using communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions.
What is advocacy?
An offer to repair or replace the product if there is a problem.
What is warranty?
Factors to consider before buying a product.
What are:
safety
cost
warranty
consumer testing
The projected length of life for a person born in 2050
What is 80 years old?
Forms of communication that provide news and entertainment.
What is Media
Standards and beliefs that are most important to you.
What are values?
A person who buys products or services for personal use.
Who is a consumer?
Three ways to evaluate a risk factor.
What are:
consider both short and long term consequences
decide whether you can control the risk factor
analyze the possible benefits and risks of a decision