Providing accurate health information and health skills, teaching to help people make healthy decisions
What is Health Education?
100
The three major areas of this are physical, mental/emotional, and social.
What is Health?
100
People of the same age who share the same interests
What are Peers?
100
Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse
What is Prevention?
100
A set of health goals and objectives set by the national government
What is Healthy People
200
A deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life
What is Spiritual Health?
200
The standard amount of sleep for a healthy lifestyle
What is 8-10 hours?
200
The sum of your surroundings
What is Environment?
200
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk
What are Cumulative Risks
200
Differences in health outcomes among groups
What are Health Disparities
300
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
What are Risk Behaviors?
300
A state where your health triangle is balanced
What is Wellness?
300
The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group
What is Culture?
300
The personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives
What are Lifestyle Factors?
300
A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and to use these resources to promote one's health and wellness
What is Health Literacy
400
Radio, television, and the Internet
What is Technology?
400
A sliding scale used to visualize your health at any given time
What is the health continuum?
400
All the traits that were passed down to you from your parents
What is heredity?
400
A deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors, including sexual activity and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
What is Abstinence?
400
The current iteration of the government's health plan, its main goals are to remove health disparities and increase the quality of life for all Americans.
What is Healthy People 2020
500
Various methods for communicating information
What is Media?
500
One-half of all Americans live with one of these ongoing conditions or illnesses
What is a chronic disease?
500
Heredity, environment, attitude, media, and technology
What are influences on your health?
500
This action can cause problems such as bad breath, yellow teeth, and headaches.
What is Smoking?
500
Someone who can express health knowledge in a variety of ways could be described as this