Health and wellness vocab M-R

The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

• culture

• environment

The sum of your surroundings

• environment

• media

practicing health and safety habits to remain free from disease and injury.

• prevention

• risk

All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

• heredity

• environment

• media

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

• risk behaviors

• attitude

• media

An overall state of well being or total health

• Wellness

• health

• heredity

Planned learning experiences that help people make healthy choices.

• Health education

• health literate

Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk

• Cumulative Risk

• behavior

• technology

All forms of mass communication

• Media

• risk behavior

• heredity

most conducive to a favorable outcome.

• holistic

• health

• optimum