Health Ch. 1 and 2 Lifetime Health Vocabulary
Mrs. Evans Allen High School Health Class Vocabulary ch. 1 and 2
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- collaborate
- to work together with one or more people
- sedentary
- not taking part in physical activity on a regular basis
- action plan
- a set of directions that will help you reach your goal
- consequence
- a result of one's actions and decisions
- health
- the state of well-being in which all components of health - physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental - are in balance
- wellness
- the achievement of a person's best in all six components of health
- resource
- something you can use to help achieve a goal
- goal
- something that you work toward and hope to achieve
- health literacy
- knowledge of health information needed to make good choices about your health
- public health
- the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community
- coping
- dealing with problems and troubles in an effective way
- consumer
- a person who buys products or services
- advocate
- to speak or argue in favor of something
- value
- a strong belief or ideal
- peer pressure
- a feeling that you should do something because that is what your friends want
- media
- all public forms of communication, such as tv, radio, newspaper, the internet, and advertisements
- life skill
- a tool for building a healthy life
- risk factor
- anything that increases the likelihood of injury. disease, or other health problems
- refusal skill
- a strategy to avoid doing something you don't want to
- life style disease
- a disease caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors