Your Health and Wellness

Ch. 1

What does health mean?

• Is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being

• Striving to be the best you can be at any given time

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QlvQC4MXxs

What does wellness mean?

• An overall state of well-being, or total health

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

Lifestyle Factors

• 8-10 hours of sleep each night• Starting each day with a healthy breakfast• Eating a variety of nutritious foods each day• Being physically active for at least 20 minutes a day, three or

more days a week• Maintaining a healthy weight• Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs• Abstaining from sexual activity before marriage• Managing stress• Maintaining positive relationships• Practice safe behaviors to prevent injuries

What is the key to your wellness??

• Prevention• Prevention is practicing health and safety

habits to remain free of disease and injury

Healthy Education

• The providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9hCjn8gr7Y

Healthy People 2010

• Nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States.

Healthy People 2010 Goals

• Increase quality and years of healthy life for all Americans and remove health differences that result from factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location.

Roles

• Individual-make informed decisions, master skills that enable you to apply your decisions, access reliable health care information and services, and promote the health of others.

• Families-parents and guardians teach their children the values and skills necessary to maintain good health.

• Communities-provide health services and offer behavior-changing classes such as tobacco-cessation programs. Ensure safe environment

Health Literacy

• Refers to a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness.

Health-Literate Person

• Critical thinker and problem solver• Responsible, productive citizen• Self-directed learner• Effective communicator

Three Elements of Health

• Physical• Mental/Emotional• Social Health

Physical Health

• How well your body functions

Mental/Emotional

• Feelings about yourself, how well you meet the demands of daily life, and your ability to process information

Social

• How you get along with others

Health influences

• Heredity-all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents

• Environment-sum of your surroundings, including your family, your neighborhood, your school, your job, and your life experiences.

• Peers-people of the same age who share similar interests.

• Culture-collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.

• Media-various methods of communicating information

Risk Behaviors

• Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDffmOSVnBM&list=PLD5EB8A57DFF9BD3D&index=8

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWWSMiBag1k&list=PLD5EB8A57DFF9BD3D&index=10

First step

• Increase your awareness of risk behaviors in your life

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhGVaVwceE

Cumulative Risk

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

Risk Behaviors Dropping

Abstinence

• Avoiding harmful behaviors• https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8kwRWaYKT4

Negative Consequences (tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs)

• Addiction• Isolation from friends and family• Death• Legal

Negative Consequences (Sexual Activity)

• Worry about unplanned pregnancy• Sexually transmitted infections• Free of emotional problems • Legal choices

Persuasive Reasons