Determinants of Health
Vocabulary
Age
Dimensions of Health
Vocab & Notes Continued
100

This includes making policies and laws to benefit our health.

What is policymaking?

100

The proportion of death to populations.

What is mortality rate?

100

Your age measured every year since the day you were born.

What is chronological age?

100

body size and functioning

What is physical health?

100

The assessment of the positive aspects of a person's life such as positive emotions and life satisfaction.

What is well-being?

200

This includes the built environment, economic factors and pollutants.

What are social factors?

200

Expected number of years of life remaining at a given age, such as birth.

What is life expectancy?

200

You have to move it!

What is physical activity?

200

The ability to express emotions and maintain a level of self-confidence. 

What is emotional health?

200

Actions or behaviors designed to keep people from getting sick or injured.

What is disease prevention?

300

This includes lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, excessive alcohol consumption, tobacco use.

What are individual behaviors?

300

A range of states with physical, intellectual,  emotional, spiritual, social, and environmental components.

What is health?

300

Your age estimated by your health, how you take care of yourself, and how long you are expected to live.

What is physiological age?

300

a sense of meaning and purpose in one's life

What is spiritual health?

300

This is your maximum well being that relates to physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, social and environmental aspects of a person.

What is wellness?

400

This includes certain if illnesses run in your family, if certain natural characteristics affect you, or if certain injuries or illnesses have happened to you that may cause future conditions or illnesses.

What is biology and genetics?

400

This is passed from one person to another in which we can get vaccines or medicines to control them. 

What are infectious diseases?

400

You have to get 7 to 8 hours a night.

What is sleeping?

400

successful interactions with others

What is social health?

400

Actions that increase susceptibility to negative health outcomes.

What are risk behaviors?

500

This includes dealing with physical and mental health, health information, health products, as well as insurance.

What is access to quality health services?

500

A disease that can be cause by lifestyle choices such as diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and heart disease.

What is a chronic disease?

500

It should be appropriate for height and age.

What is weight?

500

ability to think clearly and make responsible decisions

What is intellectual health?

500

What is the leading cause of death for all people in the US?

Heart disease

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