Can you determine what the major difference is between the leading cause of death in the 1890s to 1990s?

*Infectious Diseases Diseases that are caused by infecting organism Can be passed from one person to another (polio, smallpox)

*Life-Style Diseases?Disease from neglect to your bodyCannot be passed from person to person Heart, lung, cancer, diabetes

* Lifestyle Choices? Choices made daily, of how to treat body and mindPersonal Behaviors related to how a person lives

We have the ability and the responsibility to

understand the personal behaviors associated with

illness and learn the necessary skills to change unhealthy

behavior, and to promote wellness.

OBJECTIVES: EXPLAIN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH

AND WELLNESS

Do you sometimes think you take your health for granted?

Good health has traditionally been viewed as freedom from disease; thus, if you were not sick, you were considered healthy.

While the absence of illness is one part of being healthy, it doesn't indicate whether you are at an optimal level of physical and psychological health. Remember, wellness if not just being free from disease; it is the ability

to function at our best

The process of achieving individual potential in the physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual areas.

The achievement of the highest level of health possible in each of the several areas.

Overall state of well being, or total health

Comes from making sound decsions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes.

Physical Health Mental Health Emotional Health Social Health Spiritual Health

Positive lifestyle factors include:Getting 8-10 hours of sleep each nightStarting each day with a healthy breakfast

Maintaining a healthy weightAvoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other harmful drugs

Abstaining from risky sexual behaviorsManaging stressPracticing safe behaviors in all other areas

Health Triangle Video

Physical health deals with the body’s ability to function.

Physical health has many components including: exercise, nutrition, sleep, alcohol & drugs, and weight management.

Exercise is the act of using your muscles to stay physically fit.

Exercise helps to give you more energy, maintain weight, increase confidence & self esteem, and helps to battle chronic diseases.

Proper balanced meals are essential in leading a healthy life.

Nutritious meals create a balance between what we eat and the way our body uses the food for energy and growth.

It is recommended that the average person get at least 8-9 hours of sleep.

The human body likes regularity, so try to go to bed and wake up at the same time daily.

Alcohol and other drugs interfere with messages to the brain and alters perception.

Use of such substances puts you at risk for accidental injuries, car crashes, trouble with the law, unwanted pregnancies, and fights.

Maintaining a healthy weight decreases your risk of certain diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.

Exercise and proper nutrition helps to maintain healthy weight levels.

Feelings about yourself

How well you meet the demands of daily life

Ability to process information

encompasses learning, stress management, and mental illnesses or disorders.

Learning is the development of skills, behaviors, and knowledge.

Learning increases self-confidence, awareness, and self perception. It also teaches one coping skills.

Those in good mental/emotional health are in touch with their feelings and can express them in appropriate ways.

Stress deals with the way our bodies and minds deal with life changes.

It is important to learn healthy ways to deal with stress or you could be at risk for anxiety or depression.

Stress and problems with school, friends, and family can cause mental illnesses.

Mental illnesses include: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and phobias.

Social Health deals with the way you react with people within our environment.

This includes: public health, family relationships, and peer relationships.

Public health includes disease prevention and promoting health through good decision making.

Keeping yourself safe and healthy benefits your community as a whole.

A healthy family relationship is one that is supportive, loving, responsible, and balanced.

Families should work together to eliminate stress and negativity in the home. Promoting a safe and enjoyable environment.

Strong and supportive friendships increase happiness, self-esteem, and reduces stress.

Friends are there to help celebrate your accomplishments and there to offer support in times of need.

A lot more than religion

It is a set of beliefs, principles, or values that guide your life.

Something to turn to in hard times.

Encompasses a level of faith, hope, and commitment to your individual beliefs that provide a sense of meaning and purpose.

There are 3 major areas of the health triangle

Displays how 3 components are connected.

When one side gets too much attention whole triangle becomes unbalanced

To maintain health, you need to take personal responsibility for establishing and implementing health maintance for all 3 sides of triangle

Wellness, a positive approach to life andhealth, maximizes the individual's

potential. Itinvolves the “whole” person - physically,emotionally, and on a psychological basis.

A personal wellness lifestyle is

associated withgood physical health, emotional stability,

andimproved personal relationships.

Wellness is a process, not a static state of being.

You do not just get well or stay well. There are many degrees or levels of wellness, just as there are degrees of illness.

One can always be moving towards better health, no matter how well you are.

Wellness is not the absence of disease.

You can be at a neutral point, without discernible illness, yet still feel tired, run down, bored, depressed, tense, anxious or even not in control of your life….

• Shows that health can be measured on a sliding scale, with many degrees of health and wellness.

• This continuum spans the complete spectrum of health from chronic disease and premature death to a high level of health.

• Since health is not constant, think of your health at any moment as a point along the continuum. Changes can occur suddenly.

Traditional medicine simply works with the signs and symptoms of disease.

The Wellness Continuum extends the definition of health to encompass a process of awareness, education and growth, which is based on self-responsibility.

Wellness is the integration of body, mind and spirit-all that you do, think and feel impacts your state of health.

Prevention: practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injuryAWARNESS: How are you living your life? How could you pro-actively improve or change it?

EDUCATION: What are your options? Looking within? Receiving from others

GROWTH: Trying out those options, then reevaluating by going back to step one-back to awareness

1. What are the components of health?

2.What is the health continuum?

3. Where do you think you are on the health continuum right now?

4. What are some things you control over, to improve your placement on the continuum?

5. What could happen to change your placement on the health continuum today?