Chapter 1- Understanding health wellness

the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices

• health education

• health

• health literacy

• heredity

a person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness

• herdity

• Health education

• Health literacy

the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being

• Health

• Heredity

• Health literacy

• Health education

related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

• health

• cumulative risks

• heredity

• health wellness

all the traits that are biologically passes from parents to their children

• wellness

• health

• prevention

• heredity

actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

• health wellness

• life skill

• health behavior

• risk behavior

a deliberate decision to avoid harmful behaviors

• abstinence

• risk behavior

• choice

• health behavior

practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury

• abstinence

• risk behavior

• health skill

• prevention

an overall state of well-being, or total health

• physical health

• social health

• wellness

• mental health

the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group

• health

• heredity

• environment

• culture