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CHAPTER 1

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  • The degree of total satisfaction that a person gets from life.
    Quality of Life
  • The aspect of health that refers to how well you get along with others.
    Social Health
  • 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.
    Emotional Health
  • All of the physical and social conditions that surround a person and can influence that person’s health.
    Environment
  • The state of being comfortable with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings.
    Mental Health
  • A result that a person aims for and works hard to reach.
    Goal
  • A behavior that is repeated so often that it becomes almost automatic.
    Habit
  • The ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve one’s health.
    Health Literacy
  • A term that refers to whether you are male or female. Gender is part of heredity.
    Gender
  • Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome.
    Risk Factor
  • A series of specific steps you can take to achieve a goal.
    Action Plan
  • The overall well-being of your body, mind, and your relationships with other people.
    Health
  • A state of high-level health.
    Wellness
  • The aspect of health that refers to how well your body functions. When you are physically healthy you have enough energy to carry out everyday tasks.
    Physical Health
  • Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes.
    Prevention
  • Beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation.
    Culture
  • The selling of useless medical treatments or products.
    Quackery
  • The number of years a person can expect to live.
    Life Expectancy
  • An illegal act that involves telling lies to obtain money or property.
    Fraud
  • The use of communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions.
    Advocacy
  • All the traits that are passed from parent to child; the biological process of passing on, or transmitting, those traits.
    Heredity
  • The standards and beliefs that are most important to you.
    Values
  • Forms of communication that provide news and entertainment.
    Media
  • The public promotion of a product or service.
    Advertising
  • A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.
    Continuum
  • Someone who buys products or services for personal use.
    Consumer
  • An offer to repair or replace a product if there is a problem with the product.
    Warranty