Health Vocab Chapter 1
Terms
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- well-being of your body, mind, and relationships with other people
- Health
- the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life
- Quality of Life
- the combination of physical, mental, and social health
- Wellness
- a result that a person aims for and works hard to reach
- Goal
- a gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another
- Continuum
- a model that illustrates the full range of health between the extremes of illness and wellness
- Illness-Wellness Continuum
- any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome
- Risk Factor
- all the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child
- Heredity
- any physical or mental impairment that limits or reduces a person’s ability to participate in normal activities
- Disability
- all of the physical and social conditions surrounding a person and the influences they have on that person
- Environment
- the beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation
- Culture
- the practice of healthy behaviors that keep a person free of disease and other problems
- Prevention
- the standards and beliefs that are most important to you
- Values
- a pattern of behavior that has become automatic and is hard to change
- Habit
- describes a person’s ability to gather and understand health information and then use that information to improve his or her health
- Health Literacy