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

Match the following

• Health

• An overall state of well being or total health.

• Wellness

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

• Health Education

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

• Prevention

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

Match the following

• Peers

• The collective beliefs and customs of a group.

• Culture

• The traits biologically passed to you from your parents.

• environment

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

• Heredity

• The sum of your surroundings.

• Media

• Methods of communicating info to an audience.

Match the following

• Cumulative Risk

• Avoiding harmful behaviors.

• Risk Behaviors

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

• Abstinence

• A risk that increases effect with each added exposure.

Match the following

• Strategies to help you improve health.

• Refusal Skills

• Communication to help you say no.

• Health Skills

• Something to aim for that takes planning

• Character

• How you think, feel, and act.

• Goal

Match the following

• Dr. for general care

• Health Insurance

• Dr. for specific conditons

• Emergency Rooms

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

• Specialist

• private company to pay for part of meds

• Primary Care Physiians

• For those at risk of death or disabilti

• Urgent Care

Match the following

• community effort to promote wellness

• community health

• Complete info about health history

• medical history

• study of patterns of diseases

• epidemiology

• $ someone pays before insurance kicks in

• Health Insurance

• private companies pay part of med. costs

• Deductible