Health Science Fundamentals of Wellness

The definition for mental health?

• The way a person feels about himself or herself, life, and the people around him or her.
• The fitness of the body
• A person’s satisfaction with personal looks, lifestyle, and responses to daily events
• The state of the physical world around a person, including the condition of water, air, and food.

The definition for physical health?

• The way a person feels about himself or herself, life, and the people around him or her.
• The fitness of the body
• A person’s satisfaction with personal looks, lifestyle, and responses to daily events
• The state of the physical world around a person, including the condition of water, air, and food.

The definition for quality of life?

• The way a person feels about himself or herself, life, and the people around him or her.
• The fitness of the body
• A person’s satisfaction with personal looks, lifestyle, and responses to daily events
• The state of the physical world around a person, including the condition of water, air, and food.

Which one of these statements is false?

• A persons state of wellness is associated with his or her quality of life
• A person who is physically fit can be assumed to have achieved optimum health.
• A nutrient is a basic component of food that nourished the body
• Nutritional choices influence the health of a nation's people.

Which of the following best describes the term wellness?

• A doctor’s verification that a person is healthy.
• the number of studies on this topic that have yielded A person’s high level of satisfaction with his or her appearance, lifestyle, and mental outlook.
• A physical state that comes from following a diet plan that includes only healthful foods.
• A state of being in good health.

Opposite optimum health on the wellness continuum is .

• mental health
• premature death
• physical health
• social health

The way a person gets along with others refers to .

• healthy peer relations
• mental health
• physical health
• social health

Which factor is estimated to greatly influence people’s health and wellness

• Environmental quality.
• Heredity.
• Lifestyle choices.
• The health care system.

A person who focuses on staying physically, mentally, and socially healthy, practices an approach to wellness that can be described as ?

• holistic
• inadequate
• simplistic
• unrealistic

Epidemiological research involves?

• study of nutrition in a population
• study of genomics in a population
• study of population deviances
• study of disease in a population