Taking Responsibility for Your Health

What is health literacy?

• the ability to influence and support others’ health decisions

• the ability to gather, understand, and use health information

• the ability to construct an action plan and achieve a health goal

• the ability to recognize a health problem before treating it

Which is one of the broad goals of Healthy People 2020?

• to eliminate differences in health based on gender and age

• to increase the population of Americans

• to eliminate death in the United States

• to increase the years of healthy life for each American

Which is an example of prevention in relation to health?

• telling as friend who has frequent headaches to see a doctor

• increasing the years of healthy life for each American

• telling a friend to buy fruit instead of fries

• wearing a seatbelt

What does the term prevention mean?

• increasing the number of years of healthy life

• acting to avoid negative health outcomes

• eliminating differences in health

• being productive at school and work

Which skill are you using when you try to recognize the effects of culture, media, and friends on your health habits?

• analyzing influences

• advocacy

• making decisions

• setting goals

To meet personal health goals, which step involves recognizing a health problem?

• gaining awareness

• building skills

• making decisions

• setting goals

Which skill are you using when you try to influence the decisions that others make about their health

• setting goals

• making decisions

• analyzing influences

• advocacy

The standards and beliefs that are most important to you are your (a)   .

The ability to gather, understand, and use health information is called _____

• prevention

• health literacy

• goal setting

• advocacy

Which has characteristics that are most like an action plan?

• textbook

• newspaper

• road map