Health & Wellness
Having a balance of physical, intellectual, emotional and social health.
What is wellness?
Meeting your physical daily needs.
What is physical health?
The model used for decision-making and goal-setting.
What is the DESAE model?
An action or condition that increases the chances of illness, injury or some kind of negative outcome.
What is a risk factor?
Traits that are passed biologically from parent to child.
What is heredity?
An overall well-being of the body, mind and relationships with others.
What is health?
How an individual reacts to events in their life.
What is emotional health?
What people aim for and work hard to reach.
What are goals?
The leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds.
What are motor vehicle injuries?
A person’s level of satisfaction with various aspects of their life.
What is quality of life?
When someone is neither ill or perfectly well on the health continuum.
What is midpoint health?
Being able to communicate your opinions in a non aggressive way with other people.
What is social health?
Beliefs and behaviors shared by a group of people that is passed on from generation to generation.
What is culture?
A form of communication that provides news and entertainment.
What is media?
The number of years a person is most likely to live.
What is life expectancy?
On the Illness-Wellness Continuum, where wellness status should be.
What is optimal health (wellness)?
Feeling good about yourself and being able to learn and grow.
What is mental health?
Important things that people often take into consideration when making decisions.
What are values?
Behavior that is repeated so often it becomes almost automatic.
What is habit?
This part of your body specifies how your immune system, which helps fight disease, is built.
What are genes?
The ability to locate, interpret and apply information pertaining to your health.
What is health literacy?
Making good choices, thinking things through and learning from your mistakes.
What is intellectual health?
The act of avoiding illness, injury or some kind of negative outcome.
What is prevention?
Risk factors that we have full control over. They account to all the decisions that we make.
What is a behavioral risk factor?
All the physical and social conditions that surround a person.
What is environment?