HEALTHY LIFESTYLE HOSA Questions and
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Healthy Life Expectancy -✓✓The number of years a person is expected to live in good
health
1. Heart Disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke -✓✓top 3 leading causes of death in us
1. Accidents
2. Assault
3.Suicide -✓✓leading cause of death in us 15-24
Average healthy life expectancy in US -✓✓69.3 years
lifestyle behavior -✓✓Largest contributing factor affecting longetivity
Top 3 lifestyle contributors to premature death -✓✓1. Tobacco Use
2. Poor Diet
3. Lack of exercise
150 -✓✓Minutes of moderate-intensity activity adults need per week
4 goals of healthy people 2020 -✓✓1. Attain high quality, longer lives
2. Achieve health equity and improve health of all groups
3. Create physical and social environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life and health behaviors
Health -✓✓A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
Wellness -✓✓an integrated and dynamic level of functioning oriented toward
maximizing potential, dependent on self-responsibility
Health Promotion -✓✓helping people change their lifestyle, environment, and social
norms to move toward a state of optimal health
7 dimensions of wellness -✓✓Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Spiritual,
Occupational, Environmental
, cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, body
composition -✓✓5 health related components of fitness
awareness, assessment, knowledge, self-management skills, motivation,
support/opportunity, self responsibility -✓✓6 factors that influence growth in wellness
Self-efficacy -✓✓The amount of confidence an individual has in his or her own ability to
progress even amid tempting situations
1. Precontemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance -✓✓5 stages of change
Precontemplation -✓✓stage of change where you are not even considering to change
and may be in denial. Barriers are greater than the benefits
Contemplation -✓✓stage of change when you are aware of the problem, but are
ambivalent about changing. You are intending to or seriously thinking about changing
behaviors, but have not made a commitment
Preparation -✓✓when you are on the verge of making a specific change and may be
experimenting with small changes
Action -✓✓Actually taking action on behavior change and using strategies to resist
temptations, cope with everyday challenges, and prevent relapse
Maintenance -✓✓To sustain your newly changed behavior. Must attain the new
behavior from anywhere from 6 months to 5 years
How many days make a habit? -✓✓21 days
specific,measurable, attainable, reward, time-defined -✓✓SMART Goal stands for?
Physical Activity -✓✓Any movement, produced by skeletal muscle, that results in
energy expenditure
Exercise -✓✓Planned, structured, and repeptitive bodily movement with the purpose of
improving or maintaining one or more components of physical fitness or health
Physical Fitness -✓✓The ability of the body to function at optimal efficiency
Speed, power, agility, balance -✓✓skill related components of physical fitness
Answers | 2026 Simplified Cheat Sheet | A+
Verified
Healthy Life Expectancy -✓✓The number of years a person is expected to live in good
health
1. Heart Disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke -✓✓top 3 leading causes of death in us
1. Accidents
2. Assault
3.Suicide -✓✓leading cause of death in us 15-24
Average healthy life expectancy in US -✓✓69.3 years
lifestyle behavior -✓✓Largest contributing factor affecting longetivity
Top 3 lifestyle contributors to premature death -✓✓1. Tobacco Use
2. Poor Diet
3. Lack of exercise
150 -✓✓Minutes of moderate-intensity activity adults need per week
4 goals of healthy people 2020 -✓✓1. Attain high quality, longer lives
2. Achieve health equity and improve health of all groups
3. Create physical and social environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life and health behaviors
Health -✓✓A state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
Wellness -✓✓an integrated and dynamic level of functioning oriented toward
maximizing potential, dependent on self-responsibility
Health Promotion -✓✓helping people change their lifestyle, environment, and social
norms to move toward a state of optimal health
7 dimensions of wellness -✓✓Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Spiritual,
Occupational, Environmental
, cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, body
composition -✓✓5 health related components of fitness
awareness, assessment, knowledge, self-management skills, motivation,
support/opportunity, self responsibility -✓✓6 factors that influence growth in wellness
Self-efficacy -✓✓The amount of confidence an individual has in his or her own ability to
progress even amid tempting situations
1. Precontemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance -✓✓5 stages of change
Precontemplation -✓✓stage of change where you are not even considering to change
and may be in denial. Barriers are greater than the benefits
Contemplation -✓✓stage of change when you are aware of the problem, but are
ambivalent about changing. You are intending to or seriously thinking about changing
behaviors, but have not made a commitment
Preparation -✓✓when you are on the verge of making a specific change and may be
experimenting with small changes
Action -✓✓Actually taking action on behavior change and using strategies to resist
temptations, cope with everyday challenges, and prevent relapse
Maintenance -✓✓To sustain your newly changed behavior. Must attain the new
behavior from anywhere from 6 months to 5 years
How many days make a habit? -✓✓21 days
specific,measurable, attainable, reward, time-defined -✓✓SMART Goal stands for?
Physical Activity -✓✓Any movement, produced by skeletal muscle, that results in
energy expenditure
Exercise -✓✓Planned, structured, and repeptitive bodily movement with the purpose of
improving or maintaining one or more components of physical fitness or health
Physical Fitness -✓✓The ability of the body to function at optimal efficiency
Speed, power, agility, balance -✓✓skill related components of physical fitness
