Glencoe Health Ch. 1, 2, 3 Vocab (partial)

Match the following

• Prevention

• The balance of physical, mental, and social well-being.

• Health

• An overall state of well being or total health.

• Health Education

• Giving accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.

• Wellness

• Practing healthy habits to keep yourself free from disease or injury.

Match the following

• Heredity

• The collective beliefs and customs of a group.

• environment

• The sum of your surroundings.

• Culture

• People of the same age who share the same interests.

• Peers

• Methods of communicating info to an audience.

• Media

• The traits biologically passed to you from your parents.

Match the following

• Abstinence

• Avoiding harmful behaviors.

• Cumulative Risk

• A risk that increases effect with each added exposure.

• Risk Behaviors

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

Match the following

• How you think, feel, and act.

• Character

• Something to aim for that takes planning

• Refusal Skills

• Communication to help you say no.

• Health Skills

• Strategies to help you improve health.

• Goal

Match the following

• Walk in w/out an appt. and short notice

• Health Insurance

• Dr. for specific conditons

• Primary Care Physiians

• For those at risk of death or disabilti

• Emergency Rooms

• private company to pay for part of meds

• Specialist

• Dr. for general care

• Urgent Care

Match the following

• private companies pay part of med. costs

• community health

• study of patterns of diseases

• Health Insurance

• Complete info about health history

• medical history

• community effort to promote wellness

• Deductible

• $ someone pays before insurance kicks in

• epidemiology