GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Controllable Risk Factors ✅✅ANSW-- Exercising regularly,
- Avoiding smoking,
- Managing a healthy weight, and
- Eating healthy meals
Uncontrollable Risk Factors ✅✅ANSW-- Age,
- Race,
- Gender, and
- Heredity
What is the leading causes of death for ages 15-24 and all ages. pg 9 ✅✅ANSW-motor vehicle
accidents, homicide, suicide, other accidents, and other causes.
Cancer (people ages 19-65)
Heart Disease (people ages 65+)
What are the six components of health? ✅✅ANSW-Physical health- eating right, get reg. exercise,
being at right body weight, avoid drugs/alcohol and free of diseases.
Emotional health- expressing emotions in positive and nondestructive way.
- ask for help when sad, and can cope with unpleasant emotions and not get overwhelmed by them.
Social health- does not mean being pop. at school
- quality of your relationships w/ friends, family, and others
- respect others
-express needs to others.
Mental health- Can strongly be influenced by your emotional health
- ability to recognize reality and cope w/ demands of daily life
, -have high self esteem
-enjoy trying new things
-free of mental illness
Spiritual health- maintaining harmonious relationships w/ other living things and having spiritual
direction.
-living according to ones ethics, morals, and values.
Environmental health- made up of living and nonliving things in your world.
- keeping your air and water clean, your food safe, and the land around you enjoyable and safe.
Wellness ✅✅ANSW-is the achievement of a person's best in all six components of health.
Wellness Continuum ✅✅ANSW-the ________ ____________ represents the idea that a person is
neither completely healthy nor completely unhealthy.
Health ✅✅ANSW-is the state of well-being in which all of the components of health- physical,
emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental are in balance.
Infectious Disease ✅✅ANSW-Disease caused by pathogens, such as bacteria
Lifestyle Disease ✅✅ANSW-Disease caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other
factors.
Risk Factor ✅✅ANSW-A risk factor is anything that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or
other health problems.
Two types are controllable risk factors, which is something that you can do something about.
Another one is uncontrollable risk factors which can not be changed.
Four Influences on your Wellness ✅✅ANSW-- Hereditary Influences
- Social Influences
- Cultural Influences
- Environmental Influences