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| Health | A comination of physical, mental/emotional and social well being |
| Wellness | an overall state of well-being or total health |
| Prevention | praticing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury |
| Health Education | the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices |
| Healthy People 2010 | A nationalwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States |
| Health Literacy | A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness |
| Heredity | all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents |
| Environment | The sum of your surroundings |
| Peers | People of the same age who share similar interests. |
| Culture | The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group |
| Media | Communicating information |
| Risk Behaviors | Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others |
| Cummulative Risks | Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk. |
| Abstinence | Avoiding Harmful Behaviors |
| Health skills | Specific tools and stragies that help you maintain, protect and improve all aspects of your health |
| Interpersonal communication | The exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people |
| Refusal skills | Are communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values |
| Conflict resolution | The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving |
| Stress managment | Ways to deal with or overcome the negative effects of stress |
| Advoacy | Is taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief. |
| Decision-making skills | Steps that enable you to make a healthful decision |
| Values | Are the ideas, beliefs, and attiudes to make a responsible decision. |
| Short term goal | A goal that you can take for a short period of time |
| Long term goal | a goal that you plan to reach over an extended period of time |
| Action plan | a multistep strategy to identigy and achieve your goal |
| Character | Those distinctive qualites that describe how a person thinks, feels, and believes |
| Role model | Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for others |
