Health

What are behavioral factors?

Choices and behaviors that affect a person's chance of developing a disease, unhealthy conditions, or injury.

What is quality of life?

Extent to which a person experiences a healthy, happy, and fulfilling life.

True/False : A problem in one dimension of health will not affect other dimensions of health.

False

Health conditions that develop due to a person's genes without any other risk factors are called _______.

Genetic Disorders

What is life expectancy?

Length of time a person is expected to live.

While life expectancy measures the length of time a person is expected to live, the actual number of years a person lives is called ________.

Life span

What is pollution?

Presence of waste in the environment

Risk factors increase the chances a person will develop a disease or experience an injury, while ______ factors reduce these chances.

Protective Factors

Your social environment includes your _______, or the beliefs, values, customs, and arts of a group of people.

Relationships

What is a life span?

The actual number of years a person lives.

True/False : Quality of life gauges a person's satisfaction with life, not just how long the person lives.

True

True/False : Your actions can affect your health.

True

To achieve optimal health, people practice __________, which is the process of identifying one'a state of health and taking steps to improve it.

Wellness

What are risk factors?

aspects of people's lives that increase the chances they will develop a disease or disorder or experience an injury or decline in health

Which of the following is not an environmental risk factor?

behavior

How people express their thoughts, emotions, moods, feelings about themselves, and views about the world is _______ health.

emotional

Which type of risk factor is typically nonmodifiable?

genetic risk factors

Illness and premature death lie at one end of the health continuum, and _______ health lies at the other.

optimal

Lack of _______ due to blue light from digital devices reduces a person's resistances to disease and impairs motor skills, such as for driving.

sleep