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chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Health Skills | Specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health. |
| Interpersonal Communication | The exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people. |
| Refusal skills | communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values. |
| Conflict Resolution | The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving. |
| Stress | The reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands. |
| Stress Management Skills | Skills that help you reduce and manage stress in your life. |
| Advocacy | Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief. |
| Values | Ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live. |
| Decision-making skills | Steps that enable you to make a healthful decision. |
| Goals | Things you aim for that take planning and work. |
| Short-term goals | A goal that you can reach in a short period of time. |
| Long-term goals | A goal you plan to reach over an extended period of time. |
| Action plans | A multistep strategy to indentify and achieve your goals. |
| Health consumer | Someone who uses or purchases health products or services. |
| Advertising | A written or spoken media message designed to intrest consumers in purchasing a product or service. |
| Comparison shopping | Judging benefits of different products by comparing several factors, such as quality, features, and cost. |
| Warranty | A company's or a store's written agreement to repair a product or refund your money if the product doesn't function properly. |
| Consumer advocates | People or groups whose sole purpose is to take on regional, national, and even international consumer issues. |
| Malpractice | Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards. |
| Health fraud | The sale of worthless products or services that claim to prevent disease or cure other health problems. |