Health vocab 2
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- health
- combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
- wellness
- an overall state of well-being, or total health
- prevention
- practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury
- health education
- providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices
- healthy people 2010
- a nationwaide health promotion and disease prevention
- health literacy
- refers to a person's ability to learn and understand information and services to promote health and wellness
- heredity
- refers to the biological traits and characteristics passed to you from your parents
- culture
- refers to the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group
- attitude
- our viewpoint towards something
- behavior
- a set of actions we take or do
- media
- the various methods of communicating information
- technology
- the ways in which we have improved our overall health
- risk behaviors
- actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
- cumulative risks
- risks that increase in effect with each added risk
- abstinence
- avoiding harmful behaviors