Health & Wellness
Dimensions of Health
Risk Factors
Factors Affecting Health and Wellness
Personal Skills for Health and Wellness
100

The overall well-being of the mind, body, and relationships of others.

What is Health?

100

Factors outside the dimensions of health, that affect the mind and body.

What are Diseases and/or Disorders?

100

An action or condition that increases the chances of illness, injury, or another negative outcome.

What are Risk Factors?

100

Choices and Behaviors that are repeated to the point they become automatic.

What are habits?

100

The ability to locate, interpret, and apply information pertaining to your health.

What is Health Literacy?

200

A continuum that measures how healthy a person is and their well-being.

What is the Illness-Wellness Continuum?

200

Having communication skills, and the ability to interact and hold relationships with others.

What is Social Health?

200

Choices and behaviors that increase a person’s chance of something negative happening to them.

What are Behavioral Risk Factors?

200

The circumstances, objects, and conditions that surround you in everyday life.

What is Environment?

200

Basic fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate our actions.

What are values?

300
Where you are if you don‘t have Illness not Wellness.

What is a Midpoint?

300

Your mood and how you feel about yourself and the world around you.

What is Emotional Health?

300

Traits passed down from parent to child that create potential risks.

What are Hereditary Risk Factors?

300

Traits that are passed down from parent to child

What is Heredity/Genetics?

300

The model used to help make decisions about health and wellness

What is the D.E.S.A.E Model?

400

The balance of the 4 dimensions of health.

What is Wellness?

400
Being able to think clearly, learn, and solve problems.

What is Intellectual Health?

400

Circumstances, objects, and conditions that create risk.

What are Environmental Risk Factors?

400

Beliefs and patterns shared from generation to generation

What is Culture?

400

Taking charge of your health and wellness.

What is Health Promotion?

500

A state of health and wellness

What is Well-being?

500

How well your body functions.

What is Physical Health?

500

Negative Factors related to a person’s wealth.

What are Economic Risk Factors?

500

A person’s level of satisfaction with their life.

What is Quality of Life?

500

Something we work towards to achieve.

What are Goals?

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