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Chapter 22: Health and Wellness

Check Your Answers: Section Review Answer Keys

Section 22.1 Learn About Wellness

1. Answers will vary but could include: vaccines, antibiotics, laparoscopic surgery, joint replacements, organ transplants, and NICUs.
2. Problems are easier to manage when discovered early.

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3. Answers will vary. Paragraphs should be on topic and show evidence of self-analysis.
4. Answers will vary according to articles read. Summaries should highlight the main points of the article. Trustworthy Web sites are most apt to be sponsored by educational institutions or units of government. Authors are credible if associated with educational institutions or have professional qualifications.

Section 22.2 Positive Health Habits

1. Any three: Use the stairs, walk, do not drive, park in a far corner of a parking lot, stand or walk while talking on the telephone or watching television, get up to change the television channel. Other answers are possible.
2. Students can use leadership skills to decide what they are going to do, no matter what everyone else is doing. They can use management skills to develop a plan to incorporate more exercise and healthful eating into their daily lives.

Practice Academic Skills

3. Answers will vary. It should have a positive effect if the person values health and uses self-discipline to establish healthy habits.
4. Answers will vary but should clearly state the schedule adjustments needed to take the class.