- Health is an individual's state of well-being composed of physical, mental, and social factors.
- Steps to promote and maintain physical health include getting the right amount of sleep, eating nutritious foods and drinking enough water, regularly exercising, avoiding addictive drugs, and bathing and brushing your teeth daily.
- The health continuum is a scale of physical, mental, and social well-being that spans from very poor health that can result in a premature death to a high level of health characterised by optimal efficiency and a feeling of energy and well-being.
- Poor mental health can lead to lack of drive to excersise or self-destructive behaviors that decrease physical health.
- My health is directly affected by the actions I take: all actions will have short- and long-term effects on my health.
- Hereditry is all biological traits passed down from your parents.
- An enviornment is the net sum of physical surroundings, local social sphere, and culture.
- Media and technology can have significant effects on health by influencing decisions by popularising certain ideas and distributing health-related information.
- The enviornment can affect our health physically and by encouraging or enabling us to do certain activities.
- Oliver should proactively moniter his heart's health and try to change his behavior to decrease his risk of heart disease, for example by avoiding saturated fat, excersising daily, and avoiding smoking.
- Risk behaviors are behaviors or actions that have the potential to threaten the health of yourself or others.
- Cumulative risks are especially important to pay attention to because even smaller cumulative risks can accumlate to create a large risks.
- Changing your lifestyle factors will reestablish the baseline on which your overall health is built: repeated behaviors that are part of your lifestyle contribute highly to one's health.
- Monitoring risk behaviors allows for knowledgeably addressing them, which can improve health and well-being.
- Inadequate physical activity can be remedied by changing one's lifestyle to be more active by incorperating physical activity into one's routine, for example by changing the mode of transportation to get to school.
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- Health education is important because it allows individuals to make informed decisions that benefit the community in addition to themselves.
- Health disparities are preventable differences in health outcomes in different groups.
- For an individual to make sound health decisions, they must think critically about the problem, proactively search for information to help make the decision, and effectively communicate their knowledge.
- Health People aims to help make the United States a healthier country by collecting aggregate health data and setting health goals for the population.
- Some steps to become a health-literate individual include researching basic health problems, assessing solutions and their efficacy, and understanding how the information applies to your situation.