What are the top ten health concerns in the US?

Answer 1

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Physical activityA game, sport, exercise or other action that involves moving your body, especially in a way that makes your heart beat faster.

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Overweight and obesityOverweight and obesity are both labels for ranges of weight that are greater than what is generally considered healthy for a given height. The terms also identify ranges of weight that have been shown to increase the likelihood of certain diseases and other health problems.

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Tobacco useThe use of products that contain nicotine, including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco products like chew and snuff. Tobacco use results in more deaths each year in the United States than AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicide, suicide, motor vehicle crashes, and fires combined. Source: Healthy People 2010.

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Substance abuseExcessive use of alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.

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Sexual behaviorBehavior choices that express affection and are the result of sexual attraction. They include, but are not limited to, sexual intercourse, dating, and kissing. Certain sexual behaviors are risky and can result in sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancy and a variety of negative social consequences.

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Mental healthThe condition of a person's mind and the ways that a person expresses feelings, allowing that person to participate in productive activities, have fulfilling relationships, and be able to adapt to change and cope with difficult times.

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Injury and violenceAn injury is physical, emotional or social pain, damage or loss that occurs. Examples of injury caused by accident include drowning, falling, and choking. Violence refers to physical, emotional, or social injury inflicted by others. Examples of violence include homicide, rape, child abuse bullying, and fighting. Children and adolescents engage in many behaviors that increase their risk of injury, including not using seat belts, driving after drinking alcohol, carrying weapons, and engaging in physical fights.

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Environmental qualityThe quality of the physical environment, which includes the air, water, and soil; and the quality of social environments, which includes housing, transportation, urban development, land use, industry, and agriculture.

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ImmunizationA process to make somebody resistant to a particular disease, especially by vaccination.

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Access to health careThe ease with which individuals or groups of people obtain health care or health services in a given community.