Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Your Total Health Health

Chapter 1

Lesson 1 – Your Total Health

Health – • The combination of physical, mental / emotional, and social well-being • Every decision you make affects your overall health

Your Health Triangle – • Physical Health • Mental / Emotional Health • Social Health

Physical Health • All about how your body functions • • • 8 – 10 hours sleep nightly Nutritious meals 30 – 60 minutes of physical activity No tobacco, alcohol or drugs Good hygiene

Mental / Emotional Health • About your feelings & thoughts • How you feel about yourself • Includes spiritual health • Deep-seated feeling of meanng & purpose

Mental / Emotional Health • Enjoy challenges • Accept responsibility • Have a sense of control • Express emotions appropriately • Adequately deal with stress • Have a positive outlook • Make thoughtful & responsible decisions

Social Health • Getting along with others • Seeking & lending support • Communicating clearly • Listening • Showing respect & care

Keeping a Balance • Wellness • • • An overall state of well-being or total health Comes from making good decisions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound health knowledge & healthful attitudes Keeping a balance among all health components

Health Continuum • Your health, at any moment can be seen as a point along a sliding scale • Health Behaviors will promote your wellness

Lesson 2 – What Affects Your Health?

Influences on Your Health • Heredity – • All the traits passes along to you from your parents • Located in your genes on your chromosomes • Coded by DNA – a protien

Influences on Your Health • Environment – • The sum total of your surroundings • • • Physical environment Social environment Cultural environment • Culture – the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group • Language – Traditions – Foods – Religion – Physical Activity

Influences on Your Health • Attitude – • The way you view situations • • Glass half full or half empty? Every day you get to make a conscious decision on how you will perceive the world around you!

Influences on Your Health • Behavior – • The activities in which you endeavor • • Healthful High risk

Media & Technology • Media – • Various methods of communicating • Technology – • Method of communications delivery • Radio, television, internet, print

Media & Technology Reliable internet health site are monitored by HON and will have the HON CODE

Lesson 3 – Health Risks and Your Behavior

Health Risks • Risk Behaviors • Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others

Health Risks • Consequences of Risky Behaviors – • Risks add up and will increase in effect with each added risk – Cumulative Risks

Avoiding Health Risks • Prevention – Avoidance of unhealthy behaviors • Abstinence – a deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behaviors, including sexual activities and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs; this would also include violent behavior and bullying

Lesson 4 – Promoting Health and Wellness

Promoting Your Good Health Regularly participating in health-promoting behaviors will help you reach high levels of wellness

Healthy Lifestyle Factors • The personal habits & behaviors related to the way a person lives – • • 8 hours sleep Eating a healthy breakfast Eating a variety of healthy foods daily 30 – 60 minutes of daily physical activity Maintaining a healthy weight Abstaining from all tobacco products Abstaining from all drugs & alcohol

Promoting Health & Wellness • Individual, family, community & national health require planning & responsible behavior on everyone’s part • America spends $1. 9 trillion annually on health care • $6, 280 person

Goals of Healthy People • Increase the quality & length of healthy life for all Americans • Remove differences in health outcomes based on gender, race, education, disability & location • Health Disparities – differences in health outcomes among groups of people

Health Literacy • Know where to find accurate health information • Assess the risks & benefits of treatments • Understand medicines • Understand test results

Becoming Health Literate Critical thinker Effective communicato r Selfdirected learner Literacy Factors Problem solver Responsible • A person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information & services, and to use these resources to promote one’s health and wellness.