Healthy Basics
The three parts of health that make up overall well-being.
What are physical, mental, and social health?
The prevention, treatment and management of illness and the maintenance of well-being by a medical professional
What is healthcare?
Two risk factors for poor health.
What are genetics, smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy weight, drug use or stress?
The ability to read and understand health-related materials
What is health literacy?
The number of years a person in a particular population is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
People in these types of communities may have limited access to providers and latest technology.
What are rural areas?
The first person you usually see for medical care.
Who is a primary care physician?
Skill for reducing health risk that involves asking an adult for help.
What is collaboration?
The act of speaking up or fighting for a cause.
What is advocacy?
A procedure that is performed without the need for an overnight stay at a hospital.
What is an outpatient procedure?
Two warning signs that suggest you need to see a doctor.
What are chest pain, stomach pain, changes in weight or appetite, fatigue or weakness, shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, difficulty swallowing, leg or ankle swelling, skin discoloration?
What is an inpatient procedure?
What is negotiation?
Normal Blood pressure values
What is below 120/80?
Aspect of health that includes the ability to think clearly and learn new information
What is intellectual health?
The overall state of well-being, not just the absence of disease.
What is health?
A place you can go for non-life-threatening but sudden health needs
What is an urgent care facility?
A method of triggering a person's immune system to produce immunity or resistance to a particular disease.
What is vaccination?
Name of two sources of reputable medical information.
What is a trusted doctor/pharmacist/nurse, disease specific website or teaching hospitals?
What is a medical history?
Two healthy behaviors that can reduce the risk of disease.
What are maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, eating nutritious food, and getting enough sleep?
The three parts of a biblical ethics triad.
What are biblical principles, outcomes and motivations?
Term that refers to traits passed down from your family
What is heredity?
Two locations commonly used to check a pulse.
What is your carotid artery (neck) or radial artery (wrist)?
The slight increase in pressure in an artery every time the heart beats.
What is a pulse?