CHAPTER 1
S T U DY G U I D E
CHAPTER 1 – STUDY GUIDE
1. Define health literacy.
• A person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic
health information and services.
2. How does heredity play a part in your general health?
• In addition to physical traits, you inherit genes that may put
you at risk for disease/strengthened immune system.
3. To be truly healthy, what must happen to your health
triangle?
• Balanced.
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4. Define lifestyle factor and give one example.
• Personal behaviors related to the way a person lives.
• Example – 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night.
5. List the three elements of your health triangle.
• Social health.
• Mental/emotional health.
• Physical health.
6. Define longevity.
• How long you live.
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7. List the five components of your cultural environment.
• Language, food, religion, traditions, and family.
8. How can your peers influence your health?
• Positive friends = positive influence.
• Negative friends = negative influence.
9. In what two ways do changes on the health continuum
occur?
• Suddenly/gradually.
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10.How do people with good mental emotional health view
mistakes?
• As an opportunity to learn, change, and grow.
11.How does your personal behavior influence your health?
• You are not free from the consequences of your choices.
• Your behavior affects your family/friends.
12.Which influence on health cannot be changed?
• Heredity.
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13. What does it mean to say that our health is “dynamic in
nature”?
• It is constantly changing.
14.List 3 components of your social health.
• The way you get along with others.
• Your ability to make/keep friends.
• Work/play in cooperative ways.
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15. List the seven places/things that make up your environment.
• Family, neighborhood, school, job, life experiences, places you
go in a given day, and physical conditions in which you live.
16. List the 4 advantages of being in good physical health.
• Enough energy to perform the activities of daily life.
• Cope with everyday challenges/stresses.
• Resist diseases.
• Avoid injury.
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