Aspects of Health
These are the three main aspects of health.
What are physical, mental/emotional, and social health?
The average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
Any condition or behavior that increases the chance of injury or disease.
What is a risk factor?
This type of risk factor includes your behavior and choices.
What is a controllable risk factor?
This side of the continuum represents poor health.
What is the left side?
This aspect involves how well your body functions.
What is physical health?
A behavior that is repeated so often it becomes automatic.
What is a habit?
True or False: Peer pressure is a risk factor.
What is true?
This type of risk factor includes age, gender, and heredity.
What is an uncontrollable risk factor?
This side of the continuum represents ideal wellness.
What is the right side?
This aspect includes your relationships with friends and family.What is social health?
What is social health?
A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.
What is a continuum?
A teen using their phone while driving is an example of this kind of risk.
What is a behavioral risk?
The amount of exercise you get is this kind of risk.
What is controllable?
True or False: You stay in the same place on the health continuum for your whole life.
What is false?
This aspect includes how you feel about yourself and how you handle stress.
What is mental/emotional health?
The state of high-level health.
What is wellness?
Poor air quality and unsafe neighborhoods are examples of this type of risk factor.
What is environmental risk?
Your family medical history is this type of risk factor.
What is uncontrollable?
Daily decisions like eating breakfast and getting sleep move you toward this side.
What is wellness?
A person who has strong friendships and communicates well shows strength in this aspect.
What is social health?
Traits that are passed biologically from parents to children.
What is heredity?
Name two risk factors often influenced by the media.
What are body image and substance use?
Why is it important to know which risks are controllable?
So you can make choices to reduce them
What does the midpoint on the health continuum represent?
What is neither ill nor well