Getting eight to ten hours of sleep each night can help improve this.
What is total health?
100
Heredity, environment, attitude, media and technology are examples of this.
What are factors that can affect your health?
100
Using alcohol, smoking, and driving without a seatbelt are examples of this.
What are risk behaviors?
100
Taking medications if prescribed by a doctor, brushing your teeth after meals, and scheduling regular medical and dental visits are examples of this.
What is maintaining wellness?
100
The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
What is health?
200
Accepting responsibility for your actions and having a sense of control over your life is part of this.
What is mental/emotional health?
200
This health influence because of family history.
What is Heredity?
200
A deliberate decision to avoid high risk behaviors is this.
What is abstinence?
200
Finding health information, determining weither this information is truthful or not, assessing the risks and benefits of the treatment, and understanding test results are part of this.
What is health literacy?
200
This is radio, television, and the Internet.
What is technology?
300
Heart disease, obesity and cancer are examples of this.
What is chronic disease?
300
Neighborhood and school safety, air and water quality, aviability of parks, access to medical care are part of this influence.
What is physical environment?
300
Taking steps to avoid risk behaviors.
What is prevention?
300
Being a critical thinker, a responsible citizen, and an effective communicator are three out of four characteristics of a person who is self literate. This is the fourth characteristic.
What is a self-directed learner?
300
This is a general sense of well-being and total health?
What is wellness?
400
Showing respect and care for yourself and others is part of this.
What is social health?
400
Your group of friends is volunteering at the local senior center. You decide to also volunteer because of your friends. This is a positive example of what type of influence?
What is peers?
400
Smoking while having a lung disease is an example of this.
What is a cumulative risk?
400
Gender, race, location, disability and education can cause this.
What are health disparities?
400
This is related risks that increase with effect after each risk.
What is cumulative risks?
500
This part of mental health contains having a sense of your values.
What is spiritual health?
500
In a magazine you read about a new diet and how a celebrity lost twenty pounds using this diet. This is an example of what type of influence?
What is media?
500
These are behaviors/ habits related to the way a person lives.
What is lifestyle factors?
500
This current plan's goals include reducing the overweight and obesity rates in america.
What is Healthy People 2020?
500
This is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States.