Defining Health
The overall state of your well-being, including all dimensions of health.
What is Wellness?
Actions or behaviors that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
What are Risk Factors?
The skill needed to clearly state your feelings, needs, and opinions to another person.
What is Communication (or Effective Communication)?
Information from credible sources like doctors, public health agencies, or peer-reviewed journals.
What is Valid Health Information?
Working to influence others to address a health concern in the community.
What is Health Advocacy?
The difference between 'I' messages and 'You' messages.
What is 'I' messages focus on your feelings and avoid blaming the other person?
An essential skill for resisting pressure that involves knowing your personal limits and beliefs.
What is Setting Boundaries?
The health dimension that involves coping with stress and expressing emotions in healthy ways.
What is Mental and Emotional Health?
The two main factors that make up your environment, which influences your health.
What are Physical Environment (e.g., pollution) and Social Environment (e.g., family/peers)?
The six-step process used to make a responsible health-related choice.
What is the Decision-Making Process?
Someone who purchases or uses health products or services.
What is a Health Consumer?
A plan or goal that addresses a health issue for an entire group of people.
What is a Community Health Goal?
The non-verbal part of communication that includes your posture, facial expressions, and eye contact.
What is Body Language?
The type of peer pressure that involves persistent negative statements about someone's appearance, abilities, or social status.
What is Teasing or Bullying (or negative peer pressure)?
A spectrum used to represent the full range of health, from severe illness to optimal health.
What is the Health and Wellness Continuum (or Spectrum)?
The traits and properties that are passed on to you from your parents.
What is Heredity (or Genetics)?
The "A" in the SMART goal acronym, ensuring your goal is realistic and can actually be achieved.
What is Achievable (or Attainable)?
Advertising techniques that use famous athletes or celebrities to sell a product.
What is Testimonial (or Bandwagon/Celebrity Endorsement)?
The level of health that an entire population shares, often managed by government agencies.
What is Public Health?
Fully concentrating on what someone is saying without interrupting, and perhaps using non-verbal cues to show engagement.
What is Active Listening?
This involves stating your refusal clearly and directly, without apologizing or making excuses.
What is Assertive Refusal (or Assertiveness)?
This health dimension refers to maintaining positive relationships and having social support.
What is Social Health?
This term refers to the conditions in the environment where people are born, live, learn, work, and age that affect a wide range of health outcomes
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
The ability to say "no" or to stand up for yourself in a firm but non-aggressive way.
What is Refusal Skill (or Assertiveness)?
When looking for health services, you must be sure the provider has proper legal permission to practice.
What is Licensure?
A local school board meeting, a town council meeting, or a PTA meeting are examples of these.
What are Forums to Advocate for Health (or Collaborative Decision-Making)?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
What is Empathy?
A skill that involves repeating your statement as many times as necessary, often used to help someone avoid participating in unhealthy behaviors.
What is refusal skills?
Making daily choices that promote health, which is a key part of the definition of health.
What are Lifestyle Factors?
Giving up a healthy behavior, such as eating well, because a popular social media star claims it's unnecessary.
What is Negative Peer Influence?
A process that involves mediation or compromise to find a peaceful resolution when two parties disagree.
What is Conflict Resolution?
The illegal practice of defrauding people by selling useless or harmful health products or services.
What is Health Fraud?
The difference in health outcomes between groups of people, often linked to economic or social disadvantage.
What are Health Disparities?
A two-part 'I' message might start with your feeling and end with the behavior that caused it.
What is "I feel [emotion] when you [behavior]"