Health
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Wellness
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Wellness
Health is the overall well-being of the mind, body and relationships with others.
What is Health?
Wellness is a balance of dimension
What is dimensions of health?
Refers to how well your body functions
What is physical health?
Any action or condition that increases the chances of getting injured, contracting a disease or receiving some type of negative outcome.
What are risk factors?
Drinking, and smoking can cause disease
Should I avoid smoking, drinking, and drugs?
You can express thoughts and feelings clearly
What is an example of wellness?
Physical, emotional, intellectual, and social health
What are the dimensions?
Not slowed by disease, able to take part in activities of daily life, able to cope with stress, injury, and aging.
What are qualities to a healthy body?
Choices and behaviors that increase a person’s chance of developing a disease, an unhealthy condition, or injury
What is behavioral risk factors?
Smoking, drinking, too much tv, biting fingernail, and not much water
What are some bad habits?
Many teens experience problems with emotional health but may not realize it
What do most teens deal with?
These dimensions interact with each other and affect each other
What do dimensions do?
You are not affected by mental illness, you can express thoughts and feelings clearly
How do I know I have good health and wellness?
Habits are repeated behavior that becomes automatic
What are some behavioral risk factors?
Bad habits can become repetitive and automatic
Are bad habits considered behavioral risks?
Feel good about their present condition, are productive at school, work, and home. Do not have mental and physical illnesses
How could someone have a well-being?
Eat a healthy diet, manage sleep schedule, and cope with stress.
How could one keep up their health?
Have social skills and healthy relationships. These relationships help people enjoy life and meet challenges
How should one cope?
Motor vehicle injuries cause most of the injury-related deaths on record
What is the #1 leading cause of death for ages 15-24 year olds?
Go outside not too long, spend time with family, eat the right amount of portions, and drink water
How could I avoid affecting my health?
Intellectual health involves, ability to think clearly and critically, ability to learn and solve problems, people who are intellectually healthy are able to adapt, learn, and grow
How should one have intellectual health?
Set up goals, and be specific and realistic. Monitor your progress towards meeting your goal. Have self acknowledgement
How should someone expand their health?
Communication skills, relationships, ability to interact with others
What should I practice for better social skills?
Some inherited diseases are caused by a single gene
Are diseases hereditar?
Life expectancy is the amount of years a person is expected to live, so avoid bad habits, to meet expectancy or exceed.
What is life expectancy?