Understanding Health and Wellness
What Affects Your Health
Promoting Health and Wellness
Making responsible Decisions and Setting Goals
Health Risks and Your behavior
100
Balancing your physical, mental/emotional and social health.
What is the Health Triangle?
100
People of the same age who share similar interests.
What are your Peers?
100
Providing accurate health information and teaching health skills, to help teens make healthy decisions.
What is Health Education?
100
Steps that enable you to make a healthful decision in your life.
What are Decision Making Skills?
100
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
What are Risk Behaviors?
200
An overall state of wellbeing or total health.
What is Wellness?
200
The sum of your surroundings, that are made up of physical, social and your culture.
What is your environment?
200
Learning and understanding basic health information and services and using those resources to promote your health and wellness.
What is Health Literacy?
200
The ideas, beliefs and attitudes about what is important, that help guide the way you live.
What are Values?
200
This information is gathered to be used in a variety of ways to influence change and improve the health and wellbeing of teens.
What are statistics?
300
A deepseated sense of meaning and purpose in life.
What is Spiritual health?
300
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
What is Heredity?
300
Differences of health outcomes among groups, as a result of gender, race, education, disability and location.
What is Health Disparities?
300
Communication strategies that can help you say NO to unhealthy behaviors.
What are Refusal Skills?
300
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risks: using a cell phone while driving and speeding will result in an accident.
What are Cumulative Risks?
400
An ongoing condition or illness.
What is Chronic Disease?
400
Various methods for communicating information that is a powerful influence on your health.
What is Media?
400
One of its goals is to reduce the overweight and obesity rates in America.
What is "Healthy People 2010"?
400
It takes planning and work to aim for these: going to college you need to take the right courses in high school.
What are goals?
400
A deliberate decision to avoid high risk behaviors: sexual activity, tobacco, alcohol and drug use.
What is Abstinence?
500
Measuring your health on a sliding scale.
What is Health Continuum?
500
The way you view situations and how you choose to avoid high risk behaviors.
What are Attitude and Behavior?
500
Taking a clear health enhancing stand and urging your class to make healthy choices.
What is Advocacy?
500
A multi-step strategy that will idetify and help you achieve your goals.
What is Action Plan?
500
Personal habits or behaviors related to a way a person lives: getting 8hrs of sleep.
What are Lifestyle Factors?
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