healthy americans

1. Health is the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Health supports wellness and together they mean a positive, proactive attitude towards life. Health prevention takes three parts, primary
Secondary and tertiary . Health promotion consist of your educational, origination, environment, social, and financial life style. One should be healthy by caring for his own diet, fitness, emotional wellness, and nutrition.

2. Health promotion will help individuals and groups reduce negative health behaviors and promote positive change. 42 % of Americans aged 20 and over are healthy. 40% of Americans 18 and over don’t exercise

3. Disease can effect men and women differently, due to size and immune system differences

4. Death
Age 1-4 unintentional injuries 5, 623
Age 5 -14 unintentional injuries
Age 15-24 unintentional injuries 143,028 and malignant neoplasm’s
Age 45-64 malignant neoplasm’s
Age 65 and older disease of the heart

Young healthy Americans with good life styles that promote wellness live longer

5. HBM heatth belief model means to show when, beliefs effect behavior change. Theory of reasoned action is our behavior from intentions to perform action. An older smoker knows the threat of heart or living problems, they are more likely to see as a threat then a teen.

6. Predisposing factor might help a women who wants to sell drugs, because she knows the art of drug dealing. growing up around it might want to make her do it.


Enabling factors physical things, she might sell drugs cause she doesn’t have a car or food for her children

Reinforcing factors presence or absence of support, she see’s the neighbor selling drugs and decides if she does it and not getting cause so could she.


7. Steps to get a friend to stop smoking

Step 1: precontempilation; smoking has cause you to have bad breath and yellow teeth
Step 2: contemplation; tell them every time u see them some your going to make them give you a dollar
Step 3: preparation; say something like most people like to smoke after food and sex, stop at those points and you are likely to quit
Step 4: action; tell them to try a different activity when they get urges you most.
Step 5: maintenance; trade something for every hour of the day they don’t smoke. Like a dollar
Step 6: termination; I have traded him enough to know it means something and he doesn’t smoke any more. Say im proud of you for quitting