1. Comprehensive approach in reaching your full potential!
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ACHieVING WELlNESS
Comprehensive approach in reaching your full potential!

2. What is needed to reach your full potential of wellness?
Take a few moments to contemplate the answer to that question.
This is truly a difficult question; and rightly so, I don’t think you can answer it with a simple answer!

3. Wellness
It’s not about what someone is going to do for you; it’s about what you are are willing to do for yourself AND others!
Wellness is conscious, self directed and evolving process of achieving full potential.
Wellness is multidimensional and holistic, encompassing lifestyle, mental well- being and the environment.

4. So where do we begin?
TOOLS TO REACH OUR FULL POTENTIAL

5. Health literacy
A 2006 study by the U.S. Department of Education found that 36 percent of adults have only basic or below- basic skills for dealing with health material. This means that 90 million Americans can understand discharge instructions written only at a fifth-grade level or lower.
About 52 percent had intermediate skills: They could figure out what time a medication should be taken if the label says "take two hours after eating," while the remaining 12 percent were deemed proficient because they could search a complex document and find the information necessary to define a medical term.

6. Most pervasive and under-recognized problems in medicine: Americans' alarmingly low levels of health literacy - the ability to obtain, understand and use health information.

7. Improving health literacy
Understanding there is a lot of mis-understanding
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8. Don’t be afraid to ask questions when you don’t understand!!!
Things we understand about health
Things we don’t understand with health
Make a list of health topic you understand. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Make a list of health topics you find confusing. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Go to and complete What I Understand/Not Understand assignment. Be sure to answer and place the document into the Assignment Box!

9. Loss Improved wellness continuum Most People Function Here
Free From Aches and Pains
Lack of Energy. Minor Aches and Pains
Loss
Improved
Moderate Level of Energy
Optimal Level of Energy & Well Being
High Level Of Health
Premature Death
Chronic Disorders

10. 3-2-1 Write 3 things you learned.
List 2 things you expect on the test.
Name 1 thing you enjoyed from the lesson.