The Health Triangle & Wellness
The three balanced sides that make up total health.
Answer: What are Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Social health?
Actions or behaviors that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
Answer: What are risk behaviors?
Communication statements that start with this word help express feelings without placing blame.
Answer: What is an "I-message" (or "I")?
In the SMART goal acronym, this is what the letter "S" stands for.
Answer: What is Specific?
The written promise by a manufacturer to repair or replace a defective product.
Answer: What is a warranty?
A sliding scale that illustrates your overall state of health ranging from premature death to high-level wellness.
Answer: What is the health continuum (or wellness continuum)?
Traits and biological characteristics passed down genetically from parents to offspring.
Answer: What is heredity?
Skills that help you reduce and manage stress in your life.
Answer: What are stress management skills?
The ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live.
Answer: What are values?
An advertising technique that tries to convince you that "everyone is doing it, so you should too."
Answer: What is the bandwagon technique?
The capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information to make appropriate decisions.
Answer: What is health literacy?
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk (e.g., speeding while not wearing a seatbelt).
Answer: What are cumulative risks?
Communication strategies used to help you say "no" when urged to take part in unsafe or unhealthful behaviors.
Answer: What are refusal skills?
The "H.E.L.P." criteria used when weighing options in decision-making.
Answer: What are Healthful, Ethical, Legal, and Parent-approved?
The sale of useless or fraudulent health products, remedies, or services.
Answer: What is health fraud (or quackery)?
This side of the triangle involves how well you get along with others, make friends, and show respect.
Answer: What is social health?
Taking deliberate steps to keep something from happening or getting worse (e.g., wearing a helmet or sunscreen).
Answer: What is prevention?
Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or support a health-related belief.
Answer: What is advocacy (or health advocacy)?
A multi-step strategy designed to identify and achieve your goals and will help you identify the criteria for your goal.
Answer: What is an action plan?
An official action issued by a manufacturer or government agency demanding that an unsafe or defective product be removed from store shelves and returned by consumers.
Answer: What is a product recall.
Personal habits and behaviors related to the way a person lives - such as eating breakfast, managing stress, and getting regular exercise that directly impact life expectancy.
Answer: What are lifestyle factors?
Unlike heredity and environment, these two internal influences are 100% with your personal control and play the greatest role in your overall wellness
Answer: What is your attitude and behavior.
The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving.
Answer: What is conflict resolution.
In SMART goal setting, what the letters "M" and "T" demand to ensure accountability.
Answer: What are Measurable and Timely?
Two reliable, non-commercial sources of consumer health information (e.g., FDA, CDC, professional medical associations).
Answer: What are government agencies (.gov) or reputable non-profit/medical organizations (.org / .edu)?