Health and Wellness Chapter 1-definition

Risk Factors

A condition that increases one's chances of disease or injury.

Lifestyle Choice

A conscious behavior that can increase or decrease a person's risk of disease or injury; such behaviors include smoking, exercising, and eating a healthy diet.

Infectious Disease

A disease that can spread from person to person; caused by microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses.

Chronic Disease

A disease that develops and continues over a large period of time, such as a heart disease or cancer.

Physical Fitness

A set of physical attributes that allows the body to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical efforts.

Unintentional Injury

An injury that occurs without harm being intended.

Wellness

Optional health and vitality, encompassing all dimensions of well-being.

Sedentary

Physically inactive, literally, "sitting."

Financial Wellness

Refers to the ability to live within your means and manage your money in a way that gives you peace of mind.

Health

The overall condition of body or mind and the presence or absence of illness or injury.