Lifestyle disease & Risk factors (Sheltered)

3) Risk factors

Anything that increases the chance of injury, disease, or other health problems.

8) Lifestyle diseases

Diseases that happen because of the choices, habits, and behaviors a person makes during their life. You cannot catch these diseases from another person. (not infectious)

2) Life span

How long a person lives from birth and death.

1) Life expectancy

The average number of years an individual can be expected to live.

5) Examples for uncontrollable risk factors

age, ethnicity (race), gender (at birth), heredity (family history of diseases).

9) Examples of lifestyle diseases

diabetes, heart disease, cancer. (These diseases cause the most deaths)

7) Examples of controllable risk factors

physical activity (exercise), smoking, your weight, your diet (what you eat), exposure to the sun, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, driving too fast, unprotected sex

6) Controllable risk factors

risk factors that you can do something about (control)

4) Uncontrollable risk factors

risk factors you can't control or change