What is health?
The three areas of health. (They make up your health triangle)
Physical health, social health, and mental/emotional health
Personal hygiene.
Physical
This means you have a higher risk of a disease if it runs in your family.
Heredity
Taking steps to keep something from happening.
Prevention
A persons capacity to learn and understand basic health information and services.
Health Literacy
True or false: Over one half of all American adults live with a chronic condition or illness.
True
Family, friends, peers, teachers and your community.
Social Health
People that are roughly the same age as you and share similar interests.
Peers
Action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease or a negative outcome.
Risk Factor
Anyone who buys products or services for personal use.
Consumer
This scale spans a complete range of health from a loss of health and wellness at on end to a high level of wellness on the other.
Health Continuum
How you meet the demands of your daily life.
This includes the places you live, the people that make up your world and your culture.
Environment
This includes providing accurate health information and teaching health skills to help people make healthy dicisions.
Health Education
Selling useless medical treatments is called?
Quackery
When your health triangle is balanced, you have a high degree of what?
Wellness
Accepting responsibility for ones actions
Mental/Emotional
The way you view situations.
Attidude
A nation wide initiative to help prevent disease. (revised ever 10 years)
Healthy people
Using communication to influence and support others in making good health decisions
Advocacy
These two factors are used to evaluate health.
Life expectancy and quality of life
A deep seated sense of meaning and purpose in life. (Hint: Not one of the traditional parts of the health triangle)
Spiritual Health
The way you speak, the foods you eat, your spiritual beliefs, and traditions and practices.
Culture
Related risks increase each time you participate in risky activity.
Cumulative risk
The sale of worthless products or services that claim to prevent disease or cure other health problems
Health fraud