Health Basics
This is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
What is Health
The collected beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
What is Culture
The chance that something harmful may happen to your health
What is Risk
Skills that help you become or stay healthy
What are Health Skills
Something you hope to accomplish.
What is a Goal?
A state of balanced health over a long period of time.
What is Wellness?
Traits passed from parents to their biological children.
What is Heredity
When one risk factor adds to another to increase danger
What is Cumulative Risk
Choices you make.
What are Decisions?
The beliefs that guide the way you live.
What are Values?
Patterns of behavior that you follow almost without thinking.
What are Habits?
Threadlike structures that carry genes.
What are Chromosomes
Taking steps to avoid something harmful
What is Prevention
Strategies that help you say no effectively.
What are Refusal Skills?
Choosing to take the RIGHT action.
What is Ethical?
The connection between emotions and physical health.
What is the Mind-Body Connection
Various methods of communicating information, such as TV or social media.
What is Media
An active choice not to participate in high-risk behaviors
What is Abstinence
Identifying sources of stress and handling them in healthy ways
What is Stress Management?
A goal you can achieve in a short length of time.
What is a Short-Term Goal?
The way you act in many different situations in your life.
What is Behavior
A way of life involving little physical activity.
What is a Sedentary Lifestyle
Behaviors and habits that help determine a person’s level of health
What are Lifestyle Factors
The ability to end a disagreement or keep it from becoming larger.
What are Conflict-Resolution Skills?
A goal you plan to reach over an extended period of time.
What is a Long-Term Goal?