Unit 1 Health and Wellness Flashcards
(15 cards)
What is Health
How someone is based on their physical, social, and mental being
What is wellness?
Overall state/total health
What is life expectancy?
How long a person is expected to live
3 ways to take charge of health
regular checkups, habitual exercise, eat healthy
Health Triangle
Physical, mental, social
Examples of physical health
Anything for health body
- sleep
- food
- physical activity
- hygiene
- Avoiding drugs
What is mental/emotional health
How comfortable you are around ppl in life
Examples of mental/emotional health
- Enjoying challenges
- Controlling your own life
- Express emotions in rational way
- Making responsible decisions
What’s social health?
Having a stable social network
Stages of stress
- Alarm stage/ fight or flight
- Resistance, symptoms “disappear” however causes tiredness due to increase energy intake
- Exhaustion, long term stress only
Healthy ways to cope with stress
- Relaxation
- Humor
- Exercise
- Anything to uplift you
Influences on health
- Heredity
- Environment
- Behavior
- Attitude
- Media
- Tech
How to improve self esteem
- Choosing supportive friends
- Supportive self-talk
- Allow imperfections
What are the communication skills?
- Interpersonal communication
- Refusal skills
- conflict-resolution
How properly solve conflict
- Step away from argument
- Allow conflict to subside
- Using interpersonal communicational skills
- Have respect for u and others