Welcome To Health Class

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Welcome To Health Class
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CH 1. Your Health and Wellness

• How healthy are you in all of these areas?
• Physical
• Mental/Emotional
• Social.
• Health Is the combination of physical,
  mental/emotional, and social well being.
• Remember that being healthy means you will strive
  to be the best you can be at any given time.

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Health Continuum

• Health continuum is a concept that states your
  health is always changing.
• Example One minute you could be playing football
  and the next day you could wake up sick.
• Below is what is at both ends of the health
  continuum
• Premature Death ?------? High Level of Health
• Remember Health is always changing!

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Wellness

• Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or
  total health.
• To achieve wellness it requires an on going,
  lifelong commitment to PMSE.
• Remember you need all of HEALTH (PMS(E)) to have
  WELLNESS!

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Promoting Your Health

• Lifestyle Factors
• 8-10 hours of sleep
• Eating Breakfast daily
• Eating a variety of food groups
• Maintain a health weight or low obesity levels.
• Avoid Tobacco, Alcohol, and other drugs.
• Abstain from sex before marriage
• Manage stress
• Maintain a positive relationships
• Practice safe behaviors to prevent injuries
• Have physical activity for at least 20-30minutes
  a day for 3-4 days a week.

• Lifestyle Factors
• Personal behaviors related to the way a
  person lives.
• This will determine his or her level of health.

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Prevention and Health

• Prevention practicing health and safety habits
  to remain free of disease and injury.
• Example Wear seat belts, sunscreen, etc...
• If a smoker go outside or walk away from a
  nonsmoker.

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Health Education

• Health Education The providing of accurate
  health information to help people make healthy
  choices.
• Health Literacy Refers to a persons capacity
  to learn about and understand basic health
  information and services and use these resources
  to promote his or her health / wellness.

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Health Literate

• Health literate individual needs to be
• A critical thinker and problem solver
• A responsible, productive citizen
• A self directed learner
• An effective communicator

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Healthy People 2010

• HP 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and
  disease prevention plan designed to serve as a
  guide for improving the health of all people in
  the United States.
• Goals(2)
• 1. To increase quality and years of healthy life
  for all Americans.
• 2. To remove health differences that result from
  factors such as gender, race, education,
  disability, and location.

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Health People 2010

• Individuals Take an active role in their own
  health.
• Families To teach children the values and skills
  necessary to maintain good health.
• Communities To provide health services and offer
  behavior changing classes to take steps to
  ensure a safe environment.

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CH 1 (Lesson 2) Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

• Health Triangle
• Physical
• Mental
• Social

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Heredity

• Heredity refers to all the traits that were
  biologically passed on to you from your parents.
• Physical Traits
• Disease
• Addiction
• Looks
• Social Traits
• Behavior
• Attitudes
• Mental Traits

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Environment Sum total of your surroundings.

• Physical
• Where you live
• Social
• Peers
• Culture the collective beliefs, customs, and
  behaviors of a group.
• Attitude
• Behavior
• Media
• Technology

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Ch. 1 (Lesson 3)

• Risk behaviors are actions that can potentially
  threaten your health or the health of others.
• Make sure you can recognize a risky behavior
• Unhealthy diets
• Drug use
• Sexual behaviors
• Physical inactivity
• Simple things like not wearing a seat belt or
  helmet.
• Cumulative Risk related risks that increase in
  effect with each added risk. Example Smoking
  and getting sunburns. Its more than one risk
  factor added together.

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Abstaining from Risk Behaviors

• Abstinence avoiding harmful behaviors. Example
  not using drugs or avoiding sexual behaviors.
• How you behave affects not only yourself but
  others around you.
• The End!