Your total Health
A combination of physical, mental/emotional and social well being.
What is health?
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you fron your parents.
What is heredity?
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
What is risk behaviors?
Providing accurate health information and teaching health skills to help people make healthy decisions.
What is health education?
Provides people a deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.
What is spiritual health?
The sum of your surroundings.
What is environment?
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
What is cumulative risks?
Nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the U.S.
What is Healthy People?
An overall state of well-being or total health.
What is wellness?
Collective beliefs, customs and behaviors of a group.
What is culture?
Taking steps to keep something from happening.
What is prevention?
Differences in health outcomes among groups.
What is health disparities?
An ongoing condition or illness.
What is chronic disease?
People of the same age who share similar interests.
What is peers?
Deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors, including sexual activity, drugs, alcohol and tabacco.
What is abstinence?
A persons 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?
Spans the complete range of health, from loss of health and wellness at one end to high-level wellness at the other.
What is health continuum?
Neighborhood and school safety, air and water quality, availability of parks, access to medical care.
What is environmental factors that affect your health?
The personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives.
What is lifestyle factors?
Eliminate health disparities, promote healthy places and environments, make healthiness a way of life, etc.
What is goals of Healthy People 2020?