Defining Health & Wellness
A state of health and wellness.
What is well-being?
This behavior can cause lung damage, high blood pressure or cancer.
What is smoking?
These are skills/tools you can use to make choices about your health and wellness.
What are decision-making skills?
This is another term for "family doctor."
What is primary care physician?
Although no diseases are present, Randy does not eat healthfully or exercise. Todd eats many fruits and vegetables and maintains an appropriate weight. The healthier individual listed above would be what guy?
Who is Todd?
She smokes and has no chronic diseases. He has asthma but stays active and listens to his doctor. Therefore he is more this than her.
What is healthier?
The ability to locate, interpret and apply info related to your health.
What is health literacy?
These skills are useful for preventing yourself from unhealthy behaviors such as drug use or promiscuous sexual activity.
What are refusal skills?
The amount of money you pay each year before your health insurance company begins to take on the cost.
What is deductible?
An estimate of how long a person is likely to live.
What is life expectancy?
This is a balance of physical, emotional, mental, and social (and spiritual) health.
What is wellness?
(True or false)-Caffeinated energy drinks make you perform better on tests.
What is false?
(True or false) You should set long-term and short-term goals in terms of your health.
What is true?
Under this law, young adults can be covered through their parents' health insurance through age 26.
What is The Affordable Care Act?
This indicates the presence of diseases or conditions that negatively affect health in a population.
What is morbidity?
This causes 440,000 premature deaths each year in the United States.
What is smoking or smoking-related diseases?
This is one way you can determine if health info is reliable.
What is: info is included in a news story rather than opinion article...OR...info refers to research published by scientists...OR...The story gives the names of researchers whose original work is published...-OR-...The publication is not produced by drug manufacturers.
(true or false) In a decision-making model, you first and foremost make the decision then secondly evaluate before acting on it.
What is false?
(True or false)-Most medical treatments cost much more than their comparable treatments 20 years ago or more.
What is true?
These are some examples of safety equipment used to make activities safer.
What are flotation devices, helmets, or seat belts?
These are diseases that happen quickly and are resolved quickly.
What are acute diseases?
What is lifelong learning?
People who have strong interpersonal skills display any or all of these.
What is effective comm., collaboration, ability to resolve conflict, assertiveness, self-esteem and honesty?
This involves recording basic data such as height, weight and blood pressure, and it also reduces risk of developing diseases and disorders.
What is annual physical or regular check-up?
Family history holds the likely cause of this leading cause of death in the United States.
What is heart disease?