Chapter #1: Health

Health Triangle

100

This aspect of the health triangle included your exercise lifestyle, daily nutrition, and your daily sleep schedule.

What is...

Physical Health

200

This aspect of the health triangle includes your daily learning and stress management styles.

What is...

Mental/Emotional Health

300

This aspect of the health triangle includes your family and peer relationships.

What is...

Social Health

400

For the __________ aspect of our daily health triangle, you are suppose to get ___ to ____ hours of sleep a night.

What is...

Physical/8 to 10 hours of sleep

500

This is the definition of the health triangle.

What is...

Combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social health that consists in our daily lives.

Health Literacy

100

The first thing a health-literate individual needs to be is:

What is...

A critical thinker and problem solver

200

The second thing a health-literate person needs to be is:

What is...

A responsible, productive citizen

300

A health-literate person has to be a good _________.

What is...

Communicator

400

Being a self-directed learner means:

What is...

To be open to learning and applying what I learn to my life.

500

Health Literacy is...

What is...

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.

Health Risks

100

One risk of smoking tobacco include...

What is...

Lung disease/cancer 

200

Two risks of drinking alcohol is..

What is..

Becoming an alcoholic/liver disease/cancer

300

Abstinence means....

What is...

Avoiding harmful behaviors, including the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs and sexual activity.

400

Abstaining from sexual activity includes:

What is..

• Never have to worry about unplanned pregancy/Will not be faced with the difficult decisions that goes with an unplanned pregnancy, such as being a single parent

• Will not have to take on the many responsibilities of taking care of a child

• Do not have to worry about sexually transmitted disease/Are free of the emotional problems that accompany sexual activity, such as guilt, regret, and rejection

500

Cumulative risk factors are..

What is...

Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.

Influences on Your Health

100

Heredity is...

What is...

All the traits that you were biologically passed on to you from your parents.

200

Your environment is..

What is...

The sum of your surroundings

300

Peers are...

What is...

People that are the similar age or have similar interests.

400

Culture is...

What is...

The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

500

This is the one influence on your health that you can control.

What is..

Behavior

Vocabulary

100

This is the definition of media.

What is...

The various methods of communicating information.

200

The way you view situations greatly affects the choices you make is called your...

What is...

Attitude

300

Wellness is...

What is...

An overall state of well-being, or total health/Way of living each day: includes decisions and behaviors

400

The providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices is called...

What is...

Health Education

500

Health People 2020 is...

What is..

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