Health Skills Handbook

The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

• health

• behavior

• wellness

• mind-body connection

The way you act in the many different situations and events in your life.

• habits

• behavior

• social health

• health

Your ability to get along with the people around you.

• health

• mental/emotional health

• social health

• physical health

A state of well-being or balanced health over a long period of time.

• habits

• behavior

• health

• wellness

Patterns of behavior that you follow almost without thinking.

• habits

• behavior

• social health

• mind-body connection

How your emotions affect your physical and overall health and how your overall health affects your emotions.

• wellness

• mind-body connection

• mental/emotional health

• physical health

The passing of traits from parents to their biological children.

• heredity

• environment

• peers

• cultural background

All the living and nonliving things around you.

• heredity

• environment

• media

• culture

People close to you in age who are a lot like you.

• environment

• cultural background

• peers

• media

The beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• culture

• media

• peers

• cultural background