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Vocabulary 1
Term | Definition |
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Health | The state of being free from illness or injury. |
Wellness | The state of being in good heath especially as an actively pursued goal. |
Lifestyle Factors | Are the modifiable habits and ways of life that can greatly influence overall heath and well being including fertility. |
Risk Factors | Something that increases a person's chances of developing a disease or injury |
Prevention | The action of stopping something from happening or arising. |
Heredity | The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another. |
Enviroment | The surroundings or conditions in which a person,animal,or plant lives or operates. |
Peers | A person of the same age,status,or ability as another specified person. |
Culture | The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
Values | The regard that something is held to deserve the importance,worth,or usefulness of something. |
Abstinence | The fact or practice of restarting oneself from indulging in something typically alcohol. |
Cumulative Risk | Risks posed by aggregate exposure to multiple agents or stress in which aggregate exposure is exposure by all routes and pathways and from all sources of each given agent or stressor. |
Goals | The object of a person's ambition or effort:an aim or desired result. |