HLTH 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American Heart Association, Influenza Vaccine, Lung Cancer
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Just as health problems can create impediments to success in life, improving your health can lead to better academic performance, greater career success, more relationship satisfaction, and more joy in living. (3) Another benefit of healthful choices is that they increase your healthy life expectancy; that is, the number of years of full health you enjoy, without disability, chronic pain, or significant illness. (3-4) Individual behaviors can help you attain, maintain, or regain good health, or they can deteriorate your health and promote disease. (8) When it comes to your health and well-being, it is best to be proactive instead of reactive (notes) Health is not merely the state of disease or infirmity but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being. (concept of health online lesson) Infectious communicable disease caused by a pathogen, can be spread from person-to-person. (concept of health online lesson) The hands are the greatest source of infectious disease transmission. (notes)
