GW Health - 1.1 Vocabulary

health

• state of complete physical, mental and emotional, and social well-being

• Ability to perform daily activities

• Feeling of contentment

• Freedom from disease

well-being

• Feeling of contentment and joy

• Feeling of security and safety

• person’s ability to function positively and overall satisfaction that life’s present conditions are good

• Feeling of purpose and meaning

wellness

• Achieving a sense of contentment

• process of identifying one’s state of health and taking steps to improve it

• Achieving a sense of balance

• Developing healthy habits

physical health

• Mental and emotional wellbeing

• Ability to cope with stress

• Regular exercise and nutrition

• dimension of health that refers to how well the body functions

mental health

• Ability to cope with stress

• Ability to manage emotions

• Ability to form meaningful relationships

• dimension of health that describes how a person observes and interprets information to make decisions, solve problems, and examine situations

emotional health

• The ability to cope with stress and manage difficult situations

• dimension of health that refers to the expression of thoughts and feelings, including emotions, moods, feelings about one’s self, and views about the world

• The ability to recognize and understand one's own emotions

• The ability to form and maintain meaningful relationships

social health

• The ability to interact with others in a positive way

• dimension of health that refers to how well a person gets along with others

• The physical and mental well-being of an individual

• The ability to recognize and manage emotions

Match the following

• state of complete physical, mental and emotional, and social well-being

• health

• dimension of health that refers to how well the body functions

• mental health

• dimension of health that describes how a person observes & interprets information to make decision

• emotional health

• dimension of health that refers to the expression of thoughts & feelings, including emotions, mood

• physical health

• dimension of health that refers to how well a person gets along with others

• social health

life expectancy

• Number of years a person is expected to survive

• length of time a person is expected to live

• Average age of death

• Duration of a person's existence

life span

• actual number of years a person lives

• The amount of time a person is predicted to live

• The average time a person spends on Earth

• The amount of time a person is healthy