Your Total Health
The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
What is health?
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
What is heredity?
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
What are risk behaviors?
Providing accurate health information and health skills teaching to help people make healthy decisions.
What is health education?
Permission for something to happen or an agreement to do something
What is consent?
A deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.
What is spiritual health?
The sum of your surroundings.
What is environment?
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
What are cumulative risks?
A nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States.
What is Healthy People?
An infection transmitted through sexual contact, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites
What’s an STI?
An overall sense of well-being or total health.
What is wellness?
People of the same age who share similar interests.
What are peers?
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse.
What is prevention?
Differences in health outcomes among groups.
What are health disparities?
An intense feeling of deep affection or great interest or pleasure in something
WHAT IS LOVE?
An ongoing condition or illness.
What is a chronic disease?
The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
What is culture?
A deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors, including sexual activity and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
What is abstinence?
A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and to use these resources to promote one's health and wellness.
What is health literacy?
Health regarding the body and physical well-being
What is physical health?
A triangle with three sides, each side representing one of the three fields of health
What is the health triangle?
Various methods for communicating information.
What is media?
The personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives.
What are lifestyle factors?
The imparting or exchanging of information or news.
What is communication?
Health regarding the state of mind, thoughts and emotions
What is mental health?