Health terms

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the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.

1. Heredity

the state of being free from illness or injury

1. Health

Means the conditions of being in good physical and mental health good health achieved by balancing physical and mental emotional and social

2. Wellness

is a systematic, deliberative and interactive process by which nurses use critical thinking to collect, validate, analyze and synthesize the

3. Health Assessment

a set of behaviors by which you live.

1. Lifestyle

when you say no to some situations like when you a pressured to do something.

healthy attitude

your body's reaction to a stressor

stress response

a feeling of extreme tiredness

fatigue

a way to say no to something that you don’t want to do

2. Refusal skill

skills that help you deal with situations that can affect your health

life skill

a stress hormone that increases the level of sugar in your blood and directs the fight or flight response

epinephrine

an automatic short-term behavior to cope with mental distress

defense mechanism

the ability to handle stress in healthy ways

stress management

changing the way you think about a stressor and changing your emotional response to the stressor

reframing

the feelings produced as you respond to something in your life

emotions