Lesson 3Practicing Healthful Behaviors

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Health Behavior

• 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

• 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

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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

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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

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