It's all Relative
What is health?
Health Triangle/Continuum
Influential Factors
Accessing Valid Info
100

The number of years a person can expect to live.

What is Life Expectancy?

100

The wellbeing of your body, mind and relationships

What is Health?

100

Shows your health on a sliding scale, with different degrees of health and wellness.

What is the Health Continuum? 

100

Choices and behaviors that increase a person’s chance of developing a disease, unhealthy condition, or injury.

What are Behavioral Risk Factors?

100

Someone who purchases goods and services.

What is a consumer?

200

Types of behaviors Teenagers engage in more often,  that increase their risk of having  car accidents. (1)

What are Texting and driving, not using seat belts, distracted driving?

200

The three elements of health.

What is Physical, Mental, and Social Health?

200

The three aspects of The Health Triangle

What are Physical, Mental, and Social Health?

200

The leading cause of death in teenagers.

What are Car Crashes?

200

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

What is Health Literacy?

300

The effects that someone’s surrounding has on their health.

What are Environmental Risk Factors?

300

A person’s ability to function positively and overall satisfaction that life’s present conditions are good.

What is Well-being?

300

The state of being comfortable with yourself, others and your surroundings

What is Mental Health?

300

The probability of the individual carrying a specific disease-associated mutation, or of being affected with a specific genetic disorder.

What are Genetic Risk Factors?

300

refers to theories and health claims that are described as science based when they are not.

What is Pseudoscience?

400

Continually learning and studying throughout life

What is Lifelong Learning?

400

The current average life expectancy in the U.S.

What is 79?

400

Refers to how you react to events in your life?

What is Emotional Health?

400

Suggests that the situation was uncontrollable and therefore could not have been avoided

What is an Accident?

400

The percentage of high schoolers that have tried smoking/vaping.

What is 36.2%?

500
  • “Get six-pack abs in two weeks”

  • “You’ll catch a cold if you go outside with wet hair”

  • “Cell phones cause brain cancer”

  • “Caffeinated energy drinks will help you perform better on exams”

What are Health Claims?

500

The 6 dimensions of wellness.

What are Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, Social, and Environmental?




500

Family, Friends, Community/neighbors and Teachers.

What are Social Networks?

500

The effects that someone’s education, income, and status in society has on their health.

What are Socioeconomic Risk Factors?

500

Your ability to learn and increase you knowledge

What is Aptitude?

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