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A poor overall state of health in which a person cannot function normally; caused by factors such as disease, risky behaviors, hazardous substances, and concerns with mental or emotional health.
What is illness?
Beliefs, values, customs, and arts of a particular group or society.
What is culture?
In-person and online communication channels, such as books, TV shows, movies, social media, and advertisements.
What is media?
Actual number of years a person lives.
What is life span?
Dimension of health that refers to how well the body functions.
What is physical health?
Presence of waste in the environment.
What is pollution?
The state of your physical, mental, and social well being.
What is health?
choices and behaviors that affect a person’s chance of developing a disease, unhealthy condition, or injury.
What are behavioral factors?
Length of time a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
Dimension of health that describes how a person observes and interprets information to make decisions, solve problems, and examine solutions.
What is mental health?
chemical that carries genetic information, which determines many traits; found in chromosomes.
What is DNA?
Land features and any bodies of water present in an area.
What is geography?
aspects of people’s lives that reduce risk and increase the likelihood of optimal health.
What are protective factors?
Extent to which a person experiences a healthy, happy, and fulfilling life.
What is quality of life?
State of excellent health and wellness, including physical, mental and emotional, and social health.
What is optimal health?
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) segments that contain the blueprint for the structure and function of a person’s cells; affect development, personality, and health
What are genes?
aspects of people’s lives that increase the chances they will develop a disease or disorder or experience an injury or decline in health.
What are risk factors?
State of being without regular, consistent housing.
What is homelessness?
Dimension of health that refers to how well a person gets along with others.
What is social health?
person’s ability to function positively and overall satisfaction that life’s present conditions are good.
What is well-being?
health conditions that develop due to a person’s genes; do not require the presence of other risk factors.
What are genetic disorders?
process of identifying one’s state of health and taking steps to improve it.
What is wellness?
Field of health that focuses on interactions between different nat systems.
What is environmental health?