Your Total Health
Physical, mental/emotional, social.
What is the health triangle?
People of the same age who share similar interests.
What are peers?
Personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives.
What are lifestyle factors?
Differences in health outcomes between groups.
How you feel about yourself, how you cope with problems that occur in your life.
What is mental/emotional health?
The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
What is culture?
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
What are cumulative risks?
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?
A deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.
What is spiritual health.
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
What is heredity?
Lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease.
What are examples of long-term consequences?
A nationwide promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the US.
What is Healthy People?
An overall state of well-being, or total health.
The physical places in which you live. The people who make up your world. The culture you live in.
What is environment?
Choose friends who avoid high-risk behaviors. Choose healthful foods, remain aware of your surroundings.
What are ways to prevent health risks?
A critical thinker and problem solver, a responsible productive citizen, a self-directed learner, an effective communicator.
What are the characteristics of a health-literate person?
Your health can be measured on a sliding scale.
What is the health continuum?
Physical, social, cultural.
What are the three types of environments that affect your health?
Getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night, eating a healthy breakfast, being physically active for 30 to 60 minutes most days.
What are positive lifestyle factors?
Increase length and quality of life for all Americans; reduce health disparities.