Unit 1 Vocabulary

The number of years a person can expect to live.

• Life Expectancy

• Health

• Wellness

• Heredity

All of the physical and social conditions that surround a person and can influence that person’s health.

• Environment

• Mental Health

• Heredity

• Quality of Life

The overall well-being of your body, mind, and your relationships with other people.

• Wellness

• Prevention

• Physical Health

• Health

All the traits that are passed from parent to child; the biological process of passing on, or transmitting, those traits.

• Heredity

• Environment

• Social Health

• Physical Health

The degree of total satisfaction that a person gets from life.

• Environment

• Quality of Life

• Heredity

• Wellness

Beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation.

• Habit

• Wellness

• Social Health

• Culture

A state of high-level health.

• Mental Health

• Habit

• Wellness

• Health

The ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve one’s health.

• Emotional Health

• Culture

• Health Literacy

• Wellness

The aspect of health that refers to how you react to events in your life. You are emotionally healthy when the feelings you experience are appropriate responses to events.

• Social Health

• Emotional Health

• Physical Health

• Environment

Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome.

• Risk Factor

• Habit

• Environment

• Quality of life