Assessing your health
Promoting and Preserving Your Psychological Health
Managing Stress & Coping with Life's Challenges
Improving Your Sleep
Preventing Violence and Injury
100

Have immediate benefits.

Healthy Choices

100

The sum of how we think, feel, relate, and
exist in our day-to-day lives

Psychological Health

100

any real or perceived physical, social, or psychological event or stimulus that causes our bodies to react to stress.

A stressor

100

35%

percent of Americans that do not routinely get the recommended amount of sleep—at least 7 hours.

100

a set of behaviors that produces injuries, as well as the outcomes of these behaviors (the injuries themselves).

what is violence?

200

Has almost doubled over the last 100 years, moving
from about 47 years in the early 1900s to 78.8 years for a child born in 2015.

Life Expectancy

200

A person that perceives life in realistic ways, can adapt to change, can develop rational strategies to solve problems, and can carry out personal and professional responsibilities.

A Mentally Healthy Person

200

A state the body is in when stress levels are low

Homeostasis

200

responsible for nearly 100,000 police-reported
crashes, 71,000 injuries, and 1500 deaths in the United States in 2015 and nearly $14 billion dollars in losses.

What is drowsy driving?

200

include injury, death, or psychological harm caused by violence with the intent to harm.

what are intentional injuries?

300

Are nearly $150 billion each year.

Medical costs of obesity in the United States

300

Refers to the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage one's emotions in a positive and constructive
manner.

Emotional intelligence

300

Psychosocial stressors

– Adjustment to change
– Hassles: Little things that bug you
– The toll of relationships
– Academic and financial pressure
– Frustrations and conflict
– Overload
– Stressful environments
– Bias and discrimination

300

• Helps maintain your immune system

• Helps reduce your risk for cardiovascular disease

• Contributes to a healthy metabolism and helps regulate hunger

• Short sleep increases the risk of type 2 diabetes. 

• May be a factor in male reproductive health

• Contributes to neurological functioning 

• Improves motor tasks, especially driving

• Plays a role in stress management and mental health

What is sleep?

300

• Community Contexts

• Societal factors

• Religious beliefs and differences

• Political differences

• Breakdowns in the criminal justice system

• Stress, depression, or other mental health issues.

what are Factors Contributing to Violence?

400

The Ten Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century

Vaccinations

Motor vehicle safety

Workplace safety

Control of infectious diseases

Reduction in cardiovascular

disease (CVD) and stroke deaths

Safe and healthy foods

Maternal and infant care

Family planning

Fluoridated drinking water

Recognition of tobacco as a

health hazard

400

Factors That Influence Psychological Health

• Family
• Support system
• Community
• Self-efficacy and self-esteem
• Learned helplessness versus learned optimism
• Personality
• Life span and maturity

400

A relaxation technique that involves deep breathing and concentration

Meditation

400

24-hour cycle that controls when you sleep, when you wake, and other habitual behaviors.

what is the circadian rhythm?
400

the 13th leading cause of death overall, one of the top 5 leading causes of death for persons age 1–44.

what is homicide?

500

a plan to improve the health-related quality of life
and years of life for all Americans.

Healthy People

500

the study of the brain and behavior and how they affect the body's immune system.

Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

500

A technique using a machine to self-monitor physical
responses to stress. 

Biofeedback

500

characterized by cognitive impairment, grogginess,  queasiness, and a disoriented feeling, can occur after 30 or more minutes of napping.

what is sleep inertia?

500

a crime committed against a person, property, or
group of people that is motivated by the offender's bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.

What is a hate crime?