Across
- 4. A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness
- 6. Various methods for communicating information
- 7. The personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives
- 12. The sum of your surroundings
- 13. the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life
- 14. Disparities/differences in health outcomes among groups of people
- 15. Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
- 16. An overall state of well-being, or total health
Down
- 1. Teaching healthy skills by providing accurate information to help people make healthy choices
- 2. Taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse
- 3. All the traits that were passed on to you from your parents
- 5. Related risks that increase the effect with each added risk
- 8. A decision to avoid high-risk behaviors-to consciously decide not to do something
- 9. People of the same age who share similar interests
- 10. The combination of physical, mental/emotional and social well-being
- 11. The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group