Chapter 1Understanding Health and WellnessHealth

Chapter 1.1 Your Total Health

What makes a person healthy?

Define Health: the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

Health Triangle

Physical Health

Physical Health: How well your body functions, good physical health means that you have enough energy to perform your daily activities, deal with everyday stress, and avoid injury.

5 Important actions you can take to keep a healthy body

1. 8-10 hrs. of sleep each night.

2. Avoid the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs

3. Eat nutritious meals and drink 8 Cups of water each day

4. Practice proper daily hygiene

5. Participate in 30-60 minutes of physical activity each day.

Mental/Emotional Health

Mental/Emotional Health: is about your feelings and thoughts, a reflection of how you feel about yourself overall.

Spiritual: a deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Social Health

Social Health: getting along with others, maintaining healthy relationships.

How do you maintain healthy relationships?

1. Seeking and lending support when needed

2. Communicating clearly and listening to others

3. Showing respect and care for yourself and others

When your health triangle is balanced, you have a high degree of WELLNESS.

WELLNESS is an overall state of well-being or total health, which is created through balance

Health Continuum…draw a horizontal line….place

a mark for each of the three aspects of your health

* Draw your own triangle….label the three sides

(strengths/weaknesses)

What are some events or actions that could positively or negatively change a person’s health?

Making new friends, break-ups, illness, riding in a car without a seatbelt, diet, exercise

Chronic Disease: an ongoing condition or illness such as: Heart disease, obesity, and cancer

Four Factors that influence your Health:

Heredity: refers to all the traits that were biologicallypassed on to you from your parents.

Gender: male or female

Lifestyle: behaviors

Environment

Chapter 1.2 What Affects Your Health?

Heredity, environment, attitude, behavior, media, technology,and gender are all factors that may influence your health.

Environment is the sum of your surroundings including the people who make up your world and the physical places in which you live.

3 environment types:

1. Physical

2. Social

3. Cultural

Physical Environmental Factors

Name a few physical environmental factors that can affect your health:

Neighborhood, school safety

Air and water quality

Availability of parks, recreational facilities, and libraries

Access to medical care

Name a few physical environmental factors that can affect your health that you CAN control right now:

Cleanliness of your room

Recycling, reducing litter around campus

Social Environmental Factors

Social Environment: made up of the people around you including your family and peers.

Peers are the people of the same age who share similar interests; this can also be your friend.

Culture: refers to the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

Social Influences

Attitude: the way you view situations

Behavior: How you act upon the way you view situations

Media: the various methods for communicating information.

Radio, television, internet, newspaper are examples of technology

How do media and technology influence your attitude and behaviors?

Influence you to think something is ‘cool’, or just because this person does this one thing means it is okay for you to do it also, or motivation to do not do something.

Chapter 1.3 Health Risks and Your Behavior

What is CDC? The center for disease control and prevention, s valuable health resource/tool.

The CDC has identified 6 risk behaviors that account for most of the deaths amongst people under the age of 24.The risks behaviors can lead to heart disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses. 1. Tobacco use

2. Unhealthy dietary behaviors

3. Alcohol/Drug use

4. Sexual behaviors that may results in infection

5. Inadequate physical activity

6. Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence

Cumulative Risks are:

Related to risks that increase in effect with each added risk.

Short-term vs. Long-term effects of risk behaviors: (list 1 example)

Ex. Eating a high-fat meal at a fast food restaurant occasionally vs. every day.

How to avoid or reduce risks……

Prevention which is a process of taking steps to keep something from happening or getting worse.

List a few examples of Prevention:

Wearing a seatbelt, being drug free, etc. avoiding unhealthy relationships.

Avoiding Risk Behaviors

Abstinence: a deliberate decision to avoid high-risk behavior including sexual activity and use of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.

Every day you make decisions big and small that can affect your health.

Lifestyle factors are personal habits and behaviorsrelated to the way a person lives.

7 Lifestyle factors to improve level of health

1. getting 8 hrs. of sleep each night

2. eat a health breakfast

3. eating a variety of nutritious foods

4. physical activity for 30-60 min. a day

5. maintain healthy weight

6. Stay away from tobacco

7. stay away from alcohol and drugs

Chapter 1.4 Promoting Health and Wellness

True or False:

Individual, family, community, and national health require planning and responsible behavior on everyone’s part.

Fun Fact: today, America spends about $7.3 trillion each year on health care, which is about 7,600 per person.

How can we avoid this?

CDC

The CDC has a report that comes out every 10 years, it is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the U.S. This is called Healthy People 2020.

Health disparities: differences in health outcomes among groups.

4 Goals for Healthy People 2020:

1. Promote the best possible health in order to end preventable death, illness, injury, and disability.

2. Eliminate health disparities

3. Make wellness a way of life and enhance quality of life for individuals and communities.

4. Promote healthy places and environments.

How can we change?

Health Education:

Includes providing accurate health information and teaching health skills to help people make healthy decisions.

Health Literacy:

refers to a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services, and to use these resources to promote one’s health and wellness.