Healthy Decision Making Flashcards
Define:
Health
Physical, mental, and social-relational well-being.
Life expectancy and quality of life are the two main factors used to determine a person’s health.
Define:
Life expectancy
The maximum number of years and individual can expect to live.
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Physical healthy
How well your body works since it is critical to one’s ability to undertake daily chores without excessive tiredness.
Components of good physical health include adequate sleep, regular exercise, quality medical and dental care, as well as a healthy diet.
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Mental health
A state of self-comfort with others and their surroundings.
Characteristics of good mental health include an alert mind, recognition of achievements, and an ability to learn from mistakes.
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Emotional health
An individual’s reactions to life events.
An emotionally healthy person experiences feelings that are appropriate to specific happenings.
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Social health
The ability to get along with others, specifically, one’s ability to create and sustain healthy relationships with family and friends.
Socially healthy individuals have loving relationships, provide and receive help, and respect other people’s rights. Equally important to social healthy is communicating personal needs to other people.
Define:
Continuum
A continuous sequence or progressions with stages between the extremes that range from Wellness to Illness.
Wellness: having a high level of energy, enthusiasm for life, a sense of purpose, and supportive relationships.
Illness: low levels of energy, frequent aches and pains, a negative look on life, and feeling isolated from others.
Identify:
List the 8 influences on health.
Heredity, gender, environment, culture, media, technology, healthcare, and behavior.
- Heredity: the passing of biological traits from a parent to a child, which can influence the helath of a newborn.
- Gender: can influence health risk factors among males and females.
- Environment: is collectively the social and physical conditions - such as indoor and outdoor surroundings - in which a person lives and influences his/her health.
- Culture: refers to the social norms and behaviors in particular human societies (e.g. natiation, ethnic group, or region of a country) that are passed from generation to generation.
- Media: forms of communication that share news and enertainment, can positively or negatively influence people’s health.
- Technology:
- Healthcare: medical services provided by dentists, doctors, therapists, and nurses. Healthcare also includes the workplace of these professionals, such as hospitals and clinics.
- Behavior: refers to the decisions and actions people take to implement these decisions. Repeated behaviors are known as habits and become more automatic.
Explain:
Risk factor
Refers to actions or conditions that increase the likelihood of a disease, injury, or other negative outcomes.
You can evaluate health risk factors in three main ways: consider both short and long-term consequences; decide whether you can control the risk factor; and analyze the possible benefits and risks of a decision.
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Prevention
Finding ways to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes.
What are three steps you can take to help meet your personal health goals?
- Gaining awareness
- Gaining knowledge
- Building skills
* Analyzing influences
* Access to information
* Communication
* Making Decisions
* Setting Goals
* Healthy Practices
* Advocacy
Explain:
Your rights as a consumer
- Right to information
- Consumer protection
- The right to complain
Explain:
Quackery
A term used to descibe people who engage in health fraud by selling useless medical treatments or products.
Quacks promise consumers “ miracle” cures or to greatly imrpove someone’s health.
Define:
Fraud
An illegal act that involves telling lies to acquire money or property.
