Freedom from disease and a state of optimal physical, mental, social, intellectual, and spiritual well-being
What is Health?
100
Risk factor that you can act on to change
What is Controllable Risk Factor?
100
Skills that can help you accomplish a desired goal or keep doing a good thing that you already do.
What are Skills for Healthy Living?
100
Heart muscle.
What is Cardiac Muscle?
100
Dangerous microorganism that causes a disease
What is a Pathogen?
200
Positive component of health that involves having a good quality of life and a good sense of well-being as exhibited by a positive outlook.
What is Wellness?
200
Way of living and making healthy choices such as eating well and doing regular physical activity that help you prevent illness and enhance your wellness.
What is Healthy Lifestyle?
200
Things you can do immediately to begin progressing toward your goal
What are Action Steps?
200
Repeated bouts of gaining and losing weight.
What is Weight Cycling?
200
Infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
What is AIDS?
300
Public Health Expert who studies disease prevention and wellness promotion in communities.
What is Public Health Scientist?
300
Disorder that results in poor sleep or inability to sleep, characterized by pauses in breathing or shallow breathing during sleep.
What is Sleep Apnea?
300
People who make it easier (enable you) to engage in a certain habit. Negative enablers make it easier to engage in a destructive habit or make it harder to stay on track with your positive behavior changes.
What is an Enabler?
300
Measure of body weight in relation to body height that is associated with certain health risks.
What is BMI?
300
Disease that lasts a lifetime
What is Chronic Disease?
400
One of the key lifestyle choices that help you prevent disease, get and stay fit, and enjoy a good quality of life.
What is Priority Healthy Lifestyle Choice?
400
Any action or condition that increases your chances of developing a disease or health condition.
What is Risk Factor?
400
Self-management skills
What are Self-Regulation Skills?
400
Process of filtering the blood through a machine when the kidneys are damaged.
What is Kidney Dialysis?
400
Virus in bodily fluids of infected people and can be transmitted to others through sexual contact and in blood.
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)?
500
Expert who conducts research in hopes of improving overall human health.
What is Medical Scientist
500
Choices and actions you take as an individual (related to health and wellness) that affect your health. Some of these include regularly brushing and flossing your teeth, washing your hands before meals and after using the bathroom, and getting enough sleep
What is Personal Health?
500
Following through with the commitments you make to yourself and others.
What is Accountability?
500
Small air sacs in the lungs that exchange gases with the blood through capillary beds.
What is Alveoli?
500
A physical illness that affects the heart, blood vessels, or blood. Examples include heart attack and stroke. It's the leading cause of death in the United States.