Health Skills Vocab
Specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health
What are health skills?
The reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands
What is stress?
Someone who purchases or uses health products or services
What is a health consumer?
The ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live
What are values?
Sofia is angry that Alisa interrupts her... If Sofia says, "I'm upset because my ideas are not being heard," she is using this strategy we read about...
What is an "I" statement?
The exchange of thoughts, feelings and beliefs between two or more people that helps to build strong relationships with others
What is interpersonal communication?
Skills that help you reduce and manage stress in your life
What are stress management skills?
Although it can provide useful information, its main purpose is to get you to buy a product
What is advertising?
What is malpractice?
A written statement of your goal and the steps you will take to accomplish it are aspects of an...
What is an action plan?
Saying no firmly, respectfully, and effectively
What are refusal skills?
Things you aim for that take planning and work
What are goals?
Helps consumers choose the most useful products and get the best value for your money by focusing on the pros and cons of multiple products and making the best choice for them
What is comparison shopping?
A multistep strategy to identify and achieve your goals that will help you identify the criteria for your goal
What is an action plan?
If you buy a product and are not satisfied with it, you should see if the product came with a...
What is a warranty?
The process of ending an argument or fight through cooperation and problem solving
What is conflict resolution?
A goal that you can reach in a short period of time
What is a short-term goal?
A company's or store's written agreement to repair a product or refund your money if the product doesn't function properly
What is a warranty?
People or groups whose sole purpose is to take on regional, national, and even international consumer issues (such as a group called Consumer Reports)
What are consumer advocates?
Steps that enable you to make healthy choices... Includes listing options and weighing possible outcomes
What are decision-making skills?
Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief
What is advocacy?
A goal that you plan to reach over an extended period of time
What is a long-term goal?
This hidden message in advertising entices consumers to buy a product by displaying it in an expensive home or using a celebrity spokesperson
What is the "rich and famous" hidden message?
The sale of worthless products or services that claim to prevent disease or cure other health problems
What is health fraud?
The acronym S.M.A.R.T. stands for...