Health Triangle
Influences on Your Health
Name an Example
Definitions
Mysterious Miscellaneous
100
Eating properly, exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and sleep
What is physical health?
100
Biology factors (such as eye color) passed down from your parents
What is heredity?
100
Name something that influences your health
What is: environment, heredity, technology, media, culture
100
An overall state of well-being, actively choosing to be healthy
What is wellness?
100
Providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices
What is health education?
200
Your ability to interact with friends, peers, teachers, and family
What is social health?
200
Physical, social, culture
What are types of environmental influences?
200
Name 3 lifestyle factors AND explain how they can impact a person's overall health
What are (named any of these): physical activity, 8-10 hours of sleep, eating breakfast, avoiding drugs, managing stress, maintaining a healthy weight, abstinence from sexual activity, practicing safe behaviors? (be sure to discuss their impact on health or lifespan)
200
the combination of physical, social, and mental/emotional well-being
What is health?
200
Understanding health information and using sources to promote health and wellness
What is health literacy?
300
How you think and feel, cope, academics, career
What is emotional health?
300
Food, holidays, religion, traditions, and language
What is culture?
300
List 2 protective factors that can help you resist peer pressure
What are: values, decision making skills, close friends, self-confidence
300
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk
What are cumulative risk factors or cumulative risks?
300
Prevents unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and lowers your risk of disease
What is abstinence?
400
Health means that all 3 sides of the triangle are_________.
What is balanced?
400
Methods of communicating information
What is media?
400
Name 3 values a person might have
What are: respect, trust, honesty, abstinence, commitment etc.
400
Practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury
What is prevention?
400
Changes can occur gradually or suddenly
What is the nature of the health continuum?
500
doing drugs, depression, arguments, not sleeping, friend drama
What are things that impact the triangle in a negative way?
500
People of the same age who share similar interests
What are peers?
500
Explain how values drive decisions
What is: Exm.: valuing honesty would prevent me from stealing or cheating
500
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
What are risk behaviors?
500
Describe 2 different examples of multiple intelligences and explain what careers or hobbies this person would do well in
What are: Linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, natural (be sure to know what each are good at)