The Health Triangle
Influences on Health
Physical Health Habits
Environment & Culture
Wellness and continuum
100

These are the three major parts of the health triangle.

What are Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Social Health?

100

This is the passing of biological traits, such as eye color and genetic disease risks, from parents to their children.

What is heredity?

100

This is the number of sleep hours teens generally need each night.

What is 8 to 10 hours?

100

Your environment is defined as the sum of these.

What are your surroundings?

100

This is an overall state of well-being or total health that is not achieved just once, but requires ongoing choices.

What is wellness?

200

If a student spends all their time exercising but rarely sees friends, this specific side of the health triangle may suffer.

What is Social Health?

200

This influence refers to the actions and choices you make, and is one of the most important sections because students have significant control over it.

What is behavior?

200

Bathing regularly, keeping your surroundings clean, and brushing your teeth fall under this physical health habit.

What is practicing good hygiene?

200

People around your age who may share similar interests or experiences are known as this.

What are peers?

200

Because your health is always changing, it is represented on a sliding scale known as this.

What is the health continuum?

300

This type of health involves having a sense of meaning, purpose, and personal values, but does not necessarily mean religion.

What is Spiritual Health?

300

This describes an attitude that tends to focus on possibilities and positive outcomes.

What is optimistic?

300

To support physical health, you should drink enough of these, especially water.

What are fluids?

300

Neighborhood safety, air quality, and access to parks are all examples of this specific type of environment.

What is the physical environment?

300

Heart disease, obesity, and diabetes are examples of this type of health condition that continues for a long time.

What is a chronic disease?

400

Good mental and emotional health does not mean you are this all the time; rather, it means learning healthy ways to manage feelings.

What is happy?

400

Movies and TV sometimes create a false impression that risky behaviors are harmless by failing to show these.

What are the negative consequences?

400

Healthy relationships require communication, support, and this trait, which involves setting boundaries and treating yourself and others well.

What is respect?

400

This is the shared beliefs, customs, traditions, and behaviors of a group.

What is culture?

400

Risk factors for chronic diseases that can potentially be changed, like smoking or poor nutrition, are known as this type of risk factor.

What are modifiable risk factors?

500

The health triangle is a way to remember the three major parts of health, and these three sides should always be kept in this state to avoid suffering overall health.

What is balanced?

500

When evaluating online health information, you should ask these five questions to determine if it is reliable.

Who created the information, what is the purpose, is there evidence, is it current, and can the information be confirmed elsewhere?

500

Good physical health gives you enough energy to go to school, exercise, complete daily activities, handle normal stress, and avoid these two specific things.

What are unnecessary injuries and illness?

500

Culture can influence mental and emotional health through these two specific things.

What are beliefs and traditions?

500

Health is defined as the overall condition of a person's physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being, and is more than just not being this

What is sick?