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An overall state of well-being
What is wellness?
Nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan
What is Healthy People?
A deliberate decision to avoid risk behaviors
What is abstinence?
The three elements of the health triangle
What are physical health, mental/emotional health, and social health?
People of the same age who share similar interests
What are peers?
The sum of your surroundings
What is your environment?
Radio, television and the internet
What is technology?
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk
What is cumulative risk?
Ideas, beliefs, and attitudes that guide the way you live
What are values?
This can affect your friends and family
What is personal behavior?
Planned learning experiences that help people make healthy choices
What is health education?
The personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives
What are lifestyle factors?
A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness
What is health literacy?
Striving to be the best you can be at any given time physically, mental/emotionally, and socially
What is being healthy? (health, healthy)
All forms of mass communication
What is media?
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents
What is heredity?
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse. Examples include; wearing safety belts, avoiding unsafe areas, and applying sunscreen
What is prevention?
To be truly healthy all three sides of this should be balanced
What is your health triangle?
The collective beliefs, behaviors, and customs of a group
What is culture?
An ongoing condition or illness
What is chronic disease?
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
The _________ step in becoming responsible for your health is increasing your awareness of risk behaviors in your life
What is the first step?
Which side of the the health triangle is unbalanced if you do not have the energy to perform daily tasks?
What is the physical side?
Difference in health outcomes among groups
What are health disparities?
A deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life
What is abstinence?