Lesson 3 Practicing Healthful Behaviors Page 26 Health

Lesson 3 Practicing Healthful Behaviors Page 26

Health Behavior • The way you act or choose to act in a situation • Can be healthful, or they can put you and others at risk • Habits • Fixed behaviors that you use automatically • Healthful behaviors • Behaviors that promote health, prevent injury and premature death, and improve the quality of the environment • Risk behaviors • Behaviors that threaten health, can cause injury or premature death and harm, or destroy the environment

Health Behavior Inventory • Is a tool that helps a person decide how well he/she is practicing healthful behaviors • 6 categories of risk behaviors in teens • • Behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries Tobacco use Alcohol and/or drug use Sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection or other sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies • Diet choices that contribute to disease • Lack of physical activity

Completing a health behavior inventory • Go to the next clean page in your notebook • Number your paper 1 -100 • Page 28 -31

Review your responses • Plan to continue each health behavior that you already practice

Analyze each health behavior • Select a behavior you are not doing that could be an important, positive change to your health status • Set realistic steps to achieve this goal • Make a health contract to develop this healthful behavior

Health behavior contracts • A written plan to develop the habit of practicing a healthful behavior • 5 steps: • 1. Write your name and the date • 2. Write the healthful behavior you want to practice as a health goal • 3. Write specific statements that describe how this healthful behavior reduces health risks • 4. Make a specific plan for recording your progress. • 5. Complete the evaluation of how the plan helped you accomplish the health goal • Page 32

Make your own • Make a health behavior contract for a behavior your are not currently doing. • Use page 32 as a guide

Lesson 3 homework • Inventory • Contract • Page 33 • 1 -20, 24&25