Chapter 1 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. providing accurate health information and teaching health skills to help people make healthy decisions
  2. 5. a person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and to use these resources to promote one's health
  3. 7. overall state of well being or total health
  4. 9. the collective beliefs customs, and behaviors of a group
  5. 10. all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parent
  6. 12. nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of people in the US
  7. 14. actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
  8. 15. the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being
  9. 16. differences in health outcomes among groups
  10. 18. deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors
  11. 19. taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse
Down
  1. 1. various methods for communicating information
  2. 3. ongoing condition or illness
  3. 4. radio, television, and the internet
  4. 6. personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives
  5. 8. deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life
  6. 11. people of the same age who share similar interests
  7. 13. related risks that increase in effect with each added risk
  8. 17. sum of your surroundings