Aspects of Health
Vocabulary
Risk Factors
Uncontrollabe vs Controllable
Health Continuum
100

These are the three main aspects of health.

What are physical, mental/emotional, and social health?

100

The average number of years a person is expected to live.

What is life expectancy?

100

Any condition or behavior that increases the chance of injury or disease.

What is a risk factor?

100

This type of risk factor includes your behavior and choices.

What is a controllable risk factor?

100

This side of the continuum represents poor health.

What is the left side?

200

This aspect involves how well your body functions.

What is physical health?

200

A behavior that is repeated so often it becomes automatic.

What is a habit?

200

True or False: Peer pressure is a risk factor.

What is true?

200

This type of risk factor includes age, gender, and heredity.

What is an uncontrollable risk factor?

200

This side of the continuum represents ideal wellness.

What is the right side?

300

This aspect includes your relationships with friends and family.What is social health?

What is social health?

300

A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.

What is a continuum?

300

A teen using their phone while driving is an example of this kind of risk.

What is a behavioral risk?

300

The amount of exercise you get is this kind of risk.

What is controllable?

300

True or False: You stay in the same place on the health continuum for your whole life.

What is false?

400

This aspect includes how you feel about yourself and how you handle stress.

What is mental/emotional health?

400

The state of high-level health.

What is wellness?

400

Poor air quality and unsafe neighborhoods are examples of this type of risk factor.

What is environmental risk?

400

Your family medical history is this type of risk factor.

What is uncontrollable?

400

Daily decisions like eating breakfast and getting sleep move you toward this side.

What is wellness?

500

A person who has strong friendships and communicates well shows strength in this aspect.

What is social health?

500

Traits that are passed biologically from parents to children.

What is heredity?

500

Name two risk factors often influenced by the media.

What are body image and substance use?

500

Why is it important to know which risks are controllable?

So you can make choices to reduce them

500

What does the midpoint on the health continuum represent?

What is neither ill nor well

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