Health Concepts and Essentials

Quality of life including physical, mental-emotional, and family-social health.

The condition of a person's mind and the ways to keep the body in good physical health.

The condition of a person's relationships with family members and with others.

<p>Sum of positive and negative influences on health and well-being, including health knowledge, communication skills, heredity, advocacy, and risks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information and understanding about health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chance taken without knowledge of the outcome.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Incident over which a person has little or no control.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quality of life resulting from health status.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Idea formed from comprehension of health knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work performed by a health-care provider.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Item, such as dental floss, made to maintain and restore health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unexpected, serious situation calling for immediate action from the police, an emergency medical team, or fire department.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chart showing genetic diseases or conditions in families and how family members are related.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Documents an individual's health history and lists the person's health care providers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Way of acting in a situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fixed automatic behaviors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health-promoting behavior that can prevent injury and early death or improve the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health-threatening behavior that can cause injury or early death or harm the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personal assessment tool to help you learn if you are practicing a specific health behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forms of mass communication, such as TV, radio, newspapers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Paid announcement about a product or service designed to influence what you buy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ad on TV or radio.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using high-tech equipment to communicate info in various forms, such as pop-up internet ads.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arts or beliefs and customs that make up a way of life for a group of people at a certain time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skill in recognizing and evaluating messages in media.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of selling products or services using tactics such as brand loyalty, humor, and sex appeal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skills such as active listening that help you share feelings, thoughts, and information with others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Statement that contains a specific behavior or event, its effects on you, and expresses your feelings or thoughts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Statement that blames or shames another person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Way of responding by clarifying, restating, summarizing, or affirming that shows you hear and understand what someone is saying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positive or negative influence consciously or unconsciously placed on others to behave in certain ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skills for resisting peer pressure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior which enables a person to act in his own best interests while respecting others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intervention in a dispute to resolve it, or intervention in a process or relationship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which parties engaged in a disagreement reach an agreement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Used to improve the efficiency of resource investment for health care and promotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The average period that a person may expect to live.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A family member, friend, coworker, or professional who helps understand illness and care.</p> Signup and view all the answers