Understanding Health and Wellness
This shape is used when we discuss 3 components of healthy.
What is a Triangle?
Heredity, Environment, Attitude, Behaviors, Media, Technology can all influence/affect this.
What is your Health?
Defined as actions that can threaten your health or the health of others. May include drug use, inactivity, behaviors that cause harm........
What are Risks (Risky behaviors)?
Experts believe that poor health literacy influences a person's health more than age, income, and education. Answer what is true or what is false :O)
What is True?
This provides a person with a deep seeded sense of meaning and purpose.
What is Spirituality?
The combination of Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Social well being.
What is the definition of Health?
A type of environment that includes family, peers, and others around you.
What is Social Environment?
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse.
What is Prevention?
Health goals for the US may be found in ________. A national organization in the US promoting a plan for a healthier US.
What is Healthy People?
A person with a balanced health triangle is said to have a high degree of ______________.
What is Wellness?
A part of Health dealing with the body - about how well your it functions daily.
What is Physical health?
This organization's acronym is CDC - whose website would be a trustworthy resource for health info.
What is the Center for Disease Control (and Prevention)?
Risks that add up over time and or adding risk on top of risk on top of risk on a regular basis.
What are Cumulative risks? (What is Serious Risk)
Differences in health outcomes among groups.
Whatare health disparities?
Refers to collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group(s) - could include foods, traditions, your language, and beliefs.
What is Culture?
A part of Health that deals with feelings and thoughts. It also includes Spiritual Health.
What is Mental/Emotional Health?
Includes the way you view situations. Having a positive one is "optimistic". Having a bad one is "pessimistic".
What is Attitude?
Getting 8 hours sleep, eating healthy, exercising regularly, not smoking/drinking alcohol, hydrating your body to name a few.
What are Lifestyle Factors?
Having this empowers people to live healthfully and improve their quality of life.
What is Health Education?
An ongoing condition or illness - examples are heart disease, cancer, and obesity.
What is Chronic Illness?
This is a part of health that includes how well you get along with others.
What is Social Health?
This influence includes traits that were biologically passed on to your from your parents.
What is Heredity?
A deliberate decision of avoid High-Risk behaviors.
What is Abstinence (What is Resiliency)?
This refers to a person's capacity to understand basic health information. Clue: it is not health education
What is Health Literacy?
When your health triangle is balanced - you are said to have a high degree of this.
What is Wellness?