Chapter 1 Making Healthy Decisions

Unit Overview What is Health? Identifying Health Risks Taking Responsibility for your Health Being a Wise Health Consumer

What is Health? Life expectancy and quality of life can be used to evaluate overall health, which consists of physical health, mental health and emotional health, and social health. People’s choices can affect their position on a health continuum. What type of decisions would affect your Health?

Identifying Health Risks Influences on health include heredity, environment, media, technology, healthcare, and behavior. People need to consider the short – and long –term consequences of their behavior. They need to analyze the possible benefits and risks of a decisions.

Taking Responsibility for your Health The broad goals of Healthy People 2020 are to increase the quality and years of healthy life, to eliminate differences in health based on race, ethnic group, or income, to create environments that promote good health, and to promote healthy behaviors across all life stages. Steps to meet personal health goals include gaining awareness, gaining knowledge, and building health skills. NOTE: The Decide Process

Being a Wise Health Consumer Wise health consumers consider product safety, the qualifications of a service provider, and the source of health information. Ads rarely help a person make wise consumer choices. Evaluating claims about a treatment or product can help a person avoid fraud. Consumers have rights, such as the right to information.

What is Health? Assignment Vocab list on Pg. 2 Assignment: You will create a Vocabulary Study Guide for each unit. This review tool can be in a notebook, on index cards or written on loose leaf paper. For each term: 1. Write out the definition. -You do have a Glossary in your textbook. 2. Next, write out the meaning of this term in your OWN words. 3. List the chapter and page number for each term.

What is Health? Assignment- Part 2 Read Pgs. 2-5 While reading, please keep track of: 2 factors that can be used to evaluate overall Health 3 aspects of overall health -Take notes while you read. -Work on your Vocab while you read.

A Continuum of Health Defining a Continuum A Health Continuum Movement along the Continuum Draw out your version of the diagram on Pg. 5