Vocabulary
Your Health and Wellness
Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Health Triangle
Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks
100

These are collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

What is Culture?

100

This is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan.

What is Health People 2010?

100

This influence on your health refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.

What is Heredity?

100

Your feelings about yourself and how well you cope with stress are both parts of your _______ health.

What is Mental/Emotional Health?

100

These measures include wearing seatbelts and applying sunscreen.

What is Preventive?

200

These are people of the same age who share similar interests.

What are Peers?

200

This is a person's capacity to learn about and use health information and services. 

What is Health Literacy?

200

This influence on your health includes radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, books, and the Internet.

What is Media?

200

This involves communicating well and showing respect and care for yourself and others.

What is Social Health?

200
This is when a person practices avoiding harmful behaviors. 

What is Abstinence?

300

This is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

What is Health?

300

This is a provision of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.

What is Health Education?

300

Your environment, the media, and ________ are among the important influences on your health. 

What is Technology?

300

This element in the health triangle is how well your body functions.

What is Physical Health?

300

This is when several risk factors come together to increase the danger of a situation.

What are Cumulative Risks?

400

This refers to the way you view life situations.

What is Attitude? 

400

These are personal behaviors and habits that affect your level of health.

What are Lifestyle Factors?

400

Choosing friends who have similar value systems can have a __________ effect on your health.

What is a Positive?

400

Health comes from a balance between the physical, mental/emotional, and ____________ elements of your life.

What is Social?

400

Teens who abstain from sexual activity have ________ risk of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

What is No Risk?

500

This is something you have a great deal of control over.

What is Behavior?

500

Achieving this requires an ongoing, lifelong, commitment to physical, mental/emotional, and social health. 

What is Wellness?

500

Your environment includes the people and ________ you come into contact with every day.

What are places?

500

When your health triangle is ____________, you are likely to have problems in some area.

What is Unbalanced?

500

This is the first step in becoming responsible for your health.

What is Increase Awareness of Risk Behaviors?

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