Your Health and Wellness Lifestyle factors help determine a person’s level of health. Establishing a regular sleep schedule can help you get enough sleep each night. Such lifestyle factors promote good health.

Lesson Objectives In this lesson, you’ll learn to: Relate the nation’s health goals and objectives in Healthy People 2010 to individual, family, and community health. Develop evaluation criteria for health information. Discuss the importance of health literacy for achieving and maintaining good health.

The Importance of Good Health What Is Good Health? Good health is much more than just the absence of disease. Instead, being healthy means striving to be the best you can be at any given time.

The Importance of Good Health The Health Continuum

The Importance of Good Health Health Along the Continuum Health is dynamic. The health continuum spans the complete spectrum of health from chronic disease and premature death to a high level of health. Along the continuum are many points where your health could be located at any given time. Changes along the continuum may occur suddenly or gradually.

The Importance of Good Health Wellness A person with a balanced life has a high degree of wellness. Achieving wellness requires you to: Make decisions and practice behaviors based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes. Have an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical, mental/emotional, and social health.

Promoting Your Health Lifestyle Factors Experts have identified habits that affect people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity, or how long they live. These habits, or lifestyle factors, are personal behaviors related to the way a person lives. Lifestyle factors that promote good health include: Getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night. Starting each day with a healthy breakfast. Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

Promoting Your Health More Lifestyle Factors Being physically active for at least 20 minutes a day, three or more days a week. Maintaining a healthy weight. Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. Abstaining from sexual activity before marriage. Managing stress. Maintaining positive relationships. Practicing safe behaviors to prevent injuries.

Promoting Your Health Wellness and Prevention A key to your wellness is prevention.

Promoting Your Health The Importance of Health Education Health is critical to quality of life. The goal of health education is to give tools to live long, energetic, and productive lives.

Promoting Your Health The Nation’s Health Goals Healthy People 2010 is a plan that is revised every 10 years to promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death.

Promoting Your Health Goals of Healthy People 2010 Individuals can take an active role in their own health. Families can shape their attitudes and beliefs. Communities can provide health services and offer behavior-changing classes.

Promoting Your Health Becoming Health Literate A health-literate individual needs to be: A critical thinker and problem solver. A responsible, productive citizen. A self-directed learner. An effective communicator.

Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q. _________ is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. 1. Healthy People 2010 2. Health education 3. Health literacy 4. Health

Quick Review - Answer A. Healthy People 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. Click Next to attempt another question.

Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q. _________ is 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. 1. Health education 2. Prevention 3. Health literacy 4. Wellness

Quick Review - Answer A. Health literacy is 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. Click Next to attempt another question.

Quick Review Provide a short answer to the question given below. Q. Write a paragraph using the terms health, wellness, and health education. Click Next to view the answer.

Quick Review - Answer A. Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being. Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total health. Health education involves providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices. Click Next to attempt another question.

Quick Review Provide a short answer to the question given below. Explain how being health literate helps you achieve and maintain good health.

Quick Review - Answer A. Correct! Healthy People 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. Click Next to attempt another question.

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Quick Review - Answer A. Correct! Health literacy is 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. Click Next to attempt another question.

Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

The Importance of Good Health What Is Good Health? Good health is much more than just the absence of disease. Instead, being healthy means striving to be the best you can be at any given time. Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.

The Importance of Good Health Wellness A person with a balanced life has a high degree of wellness. Achieving wellness requires you to: Make decisions and practice behaviors based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes. Have an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical, mental/emotional, and social health. Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total health.

Promoting Your Health Wellness and Prevention A key to your wellness is prevention. Prevention is practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.

Promoting Your Health The Importance of Health Education Health is critical to quality of life. The goal of health education is to give tools to live long, energetic, and productive lives. Health education involves providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.

Promoting Your Health The Nation’s Health Goals Healthy People 2010 is a plan that is revised every 10 years to promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death. Healthy People 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States.

Promoting Your Health Becoming Health Literate A health-literate individual needs to be: A critical thinker and problem solver. A responsible, productive citizen. A self-directed learner. An effective communicator. 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.