Health Vocabulary
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- media
- the various meathods of communication
- health education
- the proving of accuarat health information to help people to make healthy choices
- interpersonal communication
- the exchange of thoughts feeling or beliefs between to or more people
- comperison shopping
- meathod of judging the benifits of different products by comparing several factors such as quality features and cost
- abstnince
- avoiding harmful behavior
- warrenty
- companies or a sores written agreement to repair a product or refund your money should the product should not function properly
- short term goal
- goals that take a short period of time
- long term goal
- goals that take a long period of time
- conflict resolution
- the process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving
- wellness
- an overall state of well-being
- Health
- a combination of mental/emotional, physical, and social well-being
- prevention
- practicing health and saftey habits to remain safe of disease and injury
- health skills
- specific tool and stratagies that help you maintain protect and improve all aspects of your health
- risk behaviors
- actions that potencially effect your health or the health of others
- heredity
- all the traits that were biologically passes onto you from your parents
- health consumer
- anyone who practices or uses health products or services
- refusal skills
- commucication stratagies that help you say no
- peers
- people of the same age who share simmilar intrests
- decision making skills
- steps that enable you to make a healthful decision
- cumliative risk
- related risk that increase in affect with each added risk
- health literacy
- persons capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use there services to promote her health or wellness.
- role model
- someone who success or behavior serves as an example for others