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DHS Health CH 1
Health CH 1 Review
Question | Answer |
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Life expectancy is? | the number of years a person can expect to live |
What is the overall well-being of your body, your mind, and your relationships with other people. | Health |
What is quality of life? | The degree of overall satifaction that person gets from life. |
Goal | A result that a person aims for and works hard to reach. |
Physical Health | How well your body functions. |
Mental Health | The state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings. |
Emotional Health | How you react to events in your life. |
Social Health | Being able to make and keep friends. |
Continuum | A gradual progression through many stages between one extream and another. |
Wellness | A state of high-level health |
Heredity | All traits that are passed biologically from parent to child. |
Gender | Whether you are male or female. |
Environment | All of the physical and social conditions that surround a person and can influence that persons' health |
Culture | The beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation. |
Having enough energy to go to school and being able to carry out everyday tasks without becoming overly tired are signs of what? | Physical health |
How well you get along with others is called? | Social Health. |
All the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child are considered what? | heredity. |
The ability to gather, understand, and use health information is called what? | health literacy. |
A person who buys products or services is called? | A consumer |
To evaluate health information, you need to evaluate the information's what? | Source. |
Fraud is... | Telling of lies to obtain money or property. |
As a consumer, you have the right to... | Complain of you have a problem with a product. |
Media | Forms of communication that provides news ans entertainment. |
Habit | A behavior that is repeated so often that it becomes almost automatic. |
Risk Factor | Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome. |
Prevention | Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes. |
Values | The standards and beliefs that are most important to you. |
Action Plan | A Series of specific steps you can take to achieve the goal. |
Advocacy | Using communication to influnence and support others in making positive health decisions. |
Health Literacy | The ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve his or her health |
Consumer | Someone who buys products or services for personal use. |
Warranty | An offer to repair or replace the product if there is a problem. |
Advertising | The Public promotion of a Product or service. |
Fraud | A person tells a lie to obtain money or property illegally. |
Quackery | People who sell useless medical treatments or products are engaged in health fraud. |