Other Influences on Your Health
There are outside factors that influence your health as well. They include your parents or caregivers, your friends and peers, and your community. Think about each question below and then click to find out how each group influences your wellness.
Parents and caregivers are probably doing everything they can to keep you as healthy as possible. This includes providing you food, clothing, shelter, emotional support, and medical care just to name a few things.
Some of your peers may not share those same interests. They may not see the connections to health that some risk behaviors have.
If you look around your community you will see examples all around that are there to keep you safe and free from injury: Stop, Yield, Children at Play and crosswalks to name just a few.
