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 treatmentsor 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
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