Your total health
When you have energy to enjoy life and pursue your dreams.
What is health?
The physical traits that you get from your parents?
What is heredity?
Things that influence you and your decisions, like computers, radio and television
What is media?
Factors that can improve your health and overall happiness. Ex: sleeping, eating breakfast with a variety of nutrients, maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding smoking
What are lifestyle factors?
Physical, social and mental
What are the three parts of the health triangle
What is having spiritual health?
The people you see everyday, the culture around you and the physical plae where you live
What is the environment?
Riding in a car without a seatbelt, excersizing outdoors without sunscreen, using drugs, unhealthy eating, high risk sexual behaviors
What are examples or risk behaviors?
Educating people to improve their health skills so they can have a more healthful life.
What is using health education?
When your health triangle is balanced.
What is having wellness?
Having 8-10 hours of sleep, eating healthy foods, doing 30-60 minutes of physical activity, avoiding drugs, and cleaning daily
What is promoting physical health
The people around you, ex: family and friends
What are peers?
Negative effects that accumulate over time
What is cumulative risk?
the differences in health outcomes among groups
What are Health disparities?
A sliding scale with the complete range of health
What is the health continuum
Enjoying challenges that help them grow, accepting responsibilities, having a sense of control, can express emotions, can deal with stress, positive outlook
What is promoting mental/emotional health?
Your ethnic group, community, country
What are examples of culture?
A way to reduce health risks, ex: getting regular medical check ups
What is prevention?
A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and to use these resources to promote one's health and wellness. Ex: finding health information, determining whether information is trustworthy, accessing treatments when needed.
What is health literacy?
Heart disease, obesity or cancer
What are examples of chronic disease?
When you seek and lend support, communicate clearly and listen to others, and show respect and care for others and yourself
What is promoting social health?
Heredity, enviroment, attitude, media and technology
What are factors that contribute to your health?
A deliberate decision to avoid high risk behaviors like misuse of drugs
What is abstinence?
End to preventable illness, injury and premature death, promoting healthy behaviors for people of all ages, create a healthy physical and social environment
What are some goals for the nation?
Neighborhood and school safety, air and water quality, availability of recreational facilities, access to medical care
What are environmental factors (that contribute to your health)?