Chapter #1 Living a Healthy Life

The providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices is _________.

• health

• health education

• wellness

• health literacy

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

• culture

• peers

• environment

• health

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

• Prevention

• Cumulative risks

• Risk behaviors

• Culture

The dynamic nature of your health means

• it is constantly changing

• it changes slowly

• it is largely inherited

• we have little control over it

Which influence cannot be changed?

• environment

• culture

• your values

• heredity

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

• Health

• Wellness

• Health literate

• Environment

Practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.

• abstinence

• risk behaviors

• prevention

• wellness

Becoming health literaterequires understanding technical medical terms.

• True

• False

Various methods of communicating information.

• News

• Twitter

• Media

• Cell Phone

_________ refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.

• Balance

• Human Body

• Personality

• Heredity