Specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health.
What is Health Skills
100
The ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important, that help guide the way you live.
What is Values
100
Someone who purchases or uses health products or services.
What is a Health Consumer
100
People or groups whose sole purpose is to take on regional, national, and even international consumer issues.
What is Consumer Advocates
100
Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief.
What is Advocacy
200
The exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people.
What is Interpersonal Communication
200
Steps that enable you to make a healthful decision.
What is Decision-making Skills
200
Judging the benefits of different products by comparing several factors, such as quality, features, and cost.
What is Comparison Shopping
200
Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards.
What is Malpractice
200
Sends out notices of dangerous products that should be removed from store shelves.
What is Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
300
Communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values.
What is Refusal Skills
300
The things you aim for that takes planning and work.
What is Goals
300
A company's or a store's written agreement to repair a product or refund your money if the product does not function properly.
What is Warranty
300
The sale of worthless products or services that claim to prevent disease or cure other health problems.
What is Health Fraud
300
Saying no to unhealthy behaviors.
What is Refusal
400
The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving.
What is Conflict Resolution
400
A goal that you plan to reach over an extended period.
What is Long-term Goal
400
A written or spoken media message designed to interest consumers in purchasing a product or service.
What is Advertising
400
Handles complaints about local merchants. Its basic services are dispute resolution and truth-in-advertising complaints.
What is Better Business Bureau
400
A goal that you can reach in a short period of time.
What is a Short-term Goal
500
Skills that help you reduce and manage your stress.
What is Stress Management Skills
500
A multi-step strategy to identify and achieve your goals.
What is an Action Plan
500
Two useful tools for evaluating products.
What is Reading Product Labels and Comparison Shopping
500
Ensures that medicines are safe, effective, and correctly labeled.
What is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
500
This decision-making strategy includes asking yourself the following questions: Does this choice present any health risks? Does this choice reflect what you value? Does this option violate any local, state, or federal laws? Would your parents or guardians approve of this choice?