Health Education, WSCC, NHES, and Loss & Grief Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering health dimensions, WSCC model components, National Health Education Standards (NHES), lesson planning framework, and developmental stages of grief and loss.

Health

A broad, multi-dimensional concept of well-being influenced by personal, behavioral, and environmental variables.

Physical Health

The domain of health involving the physical body and its physical functions.

Mental / Intellectual Health

The domain of health involving thinking, intellectual functioning, learning, and the mind.

Emotional Health

The domain of health involving feelings and emotional well-being.

Social Health

The domain of health involving relationships with friends, family, and social environments.

Spiritual Health

The domain of health involving spiritual aspects, values, meaning, or the soul.

Vocational Health

The domain of health involving work, school, and career-related aspects of life.

Lōkahi

A Hawaiian concept representing harmony, balance, and unity across physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and vocational areas of health.

Determinants of Health

Five major sources of influence on health: biology and genetics, social factors, physical conditions/environment, health services, and public policy, alongside individual behavior.

Healthy People 2020

A framework providing structured objectives to measure health outcomes and guide individuals and communities in making informed health decisions.

Whole Child Approach

An educational approach holding that academic achievement is only one element of learning, requiring collaboration to ensure students enter school healthy and practice healthy lifestyles.

WSCC (Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child)

A ten-component collaborative model endorsed by the CDC that coordinates education, policies, processes, and practices across schools and communities to support student health and learning.

Medical Care

A component of health services that specifically seeks to make the sick well.

Disease Prevention

Health strategies and interventions that attempt to minimize threats to health.

Health Promotion

Educational initiatives aimed at basically healthy communities and individuals to support the development of healthier lifestyles.

Health Education

Quality comprehensive school health instruction grounded in developmentally appropriate practice across the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.

Cognitive Domain

The domain of learning focused on knowledge, intellectual understanding, and thinking processes.

Affective Domain

The domain of learning focused on feelings, attitudes, values, and emotional growth.

Psychomotor / Skill Domain

The domain of learning focused on hands-on skills, practical application, and physical behaviors.

National Health Education Standards (NHES)

A framework of eight standards providing a structure for skills-based health education, curriculum scope and sequence, and student assessment.

School Health Services

Policies and programs designed to assess student health, provide direct care and screenings, and make appropriate medical referrals, led by the school nurse.

Physical Environment (School)

A component of the healthy school environment that encompasses physical buildings, grounds, playgrounds, sports facilities, and transportation vehicles.

Social and Emotional School Climate

The aspects of a school environment where students and staff feel cared for, safe, nurtured, valued, and meaningfully involved.

Nutrition Environment and Services

A WSCC component providing access to nutritious, appealing school meals and nutrition programs to support student health and learning.

National School Lunch Program

A federal program established in 1946 in response to student nutritional needs, associated with improved attendance, participation, and academic performance.

Employee Wellness

Work-site health promotion programs for faculty and staff that decrease absenteeism, lower health costs, improve morale, and provide healthy role models for students.

School Health Advisory Council

A local council formed to coordinate community and school health efforts, pool resources, reduce service duplication, and cultivate local relationships.

Functional Knowledge

Essential, actionable health content and core concepts required for students to promote health and prevent disease.

Internal Influences

Personal thoughts, feelings, values, curiosity, and beliefs that shape individual health behaviors.

External Influences

Outside factors that impact health choices, including peers, family, culture, media, advertising, and technology.

Refusal Skills

Specific verbal and nonverbal resistance communication skills used to resist peer pressure and media messages in risky situations.

Five-Step Decision-Making Process

A structured problem-solving sequence: 1. Problem, 2. Alternatives, 3. Pros and Cons, 4. Choose, 5. Evaluate.

Four-Step Goal-Setting Process

A structured process for personal health goals: 1. Set a Long-Term Goal, 2. Assess Your Situation, 3. Make a Plan, 4. Evaluate Your Progress.

Self-Management

The ability to take personal responsibility for health behaviors, practice health-enhancing actions, monitor progress, and make self-adjustments.

Advocacy

The skill of taking a clear, evidence-based health position and communicating effectively to encourage and persuade others to make healthy choices.

Authentic Assessment

Evaluation of student learning using meaningful, real-world performance tasks and clear criteria integrated directly with instruction.

Four Parts of a Lesson Plan

The four essential elements of health lesson planning: 1. Desired Results, 2. Assessment Evidence, 3. Active Learning Plan, 4. Reflection.

Nagy's Developmental Model - Stage 1 (Ages 3–5)

The developmental stage where young children do not understand death as final or permanent.

Nagy's Developmental Model - Stage 2 (Ages 6–9)

The developmental stage where children understand death is final, but may personify it or attribute its cause to an external force.

Nagy's Developmental Model - Stage 3 (Ages 9+)

The developmental stage where children understand death is final, universal, inevitable, and caused by internal biological mechanisms.

Grief

The psychological and physical response to death, loss, or major life changes such as divorce or relocation.

Low-Grief Death

A response to a loss that was expected or involved someone with whom there was little emotional connection.

High-Grief Death

A response to an unexpected or sudden loss that leads to an intense, prolonged grieving process due to lack of preparation.

Three Stages of Grief

The emotional progression following loss: 1. Denial, Shock, and Disbelief; 2. Despair, Numbness, Guilt, Sadness, and Apathy; 3. Recovery and Resolution.

Kübler-Ross's Five Stages of Dying

The five psychological stages identified in terminally ill individuals: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.