Factors Affecting overall health Flashcards
What does health refer to?
Health refers to the overall well-being of your body, your mind, and your relationships with other people.
Being healthy isn’t just about eating nutritious foods, exercising regularly, and getting enough rest. What does being healthy mean?
Being healthy is about striking a balance between different aspects of your overall health
Overall health can be explained using a simple diagram that is known as the..
health triangle
What do the 3 sides of the health triangle consist of?
The triangles three sides are (1) physical health, (2) social health, and (3) mental/emotional health.
The first side of the triangle, your physical health refers to what?
refers to how well your body is functioning as a result of several factors, including proper diet, exercise, sleep, and medical/dental care.
The second side, your social health, refers to what?
how well you interact and communicate with others.
The third side includes mental health and emotional health together. What does mental health refer to?
Your mental health is a reflection of how comfortable you are with yourself, around others, and in your environment
The third side includes mental health and emotional health together.What does emotional health refer to?
your emotional health corresponds to how appropriately you react to events in your life.
Roll all the different aspects up together–keep them balanced–and you’ll achieve what? a
high quality of life, or degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
What is a continuum of health?
A continuum is a gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another. This concept can be difficult to understand, so it helps to see a visual explanation of it.
What does a health continuum look like?
One end of the continuum represents poor health, which is often referred to as illness. The other end represents perfect, or ideal, health, and is often referred to as wellness. Wellness is a state of high-level health.
So, illness is on one side of the health continuum and wellness is on the other. Both your present location on the continuum and the direction in which you are moving are important to your overall health, and they can have an impact on your what?
life expectancy
