1. Chapter 1
Lesson 1

2. Your Health and Wellness
You’ll Learn in this lesson:
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
Vocabulary:
Health
Wellness
Prevention
Health Education
Healthy People 2010
Health Literacy

3. What is Health
Health- is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well being. 3

4. Health Continuum Health is dynamic or subject to change
Look at figure 1.1 Page 5 4

5. Health is dynamic (ALWAYS CHANGES)
Injury Sickness-
Progression of Age- 5

6. Oldest Man/Women
Jeanne Calment-122 years 164 days, born 21 February 1875, died August 1997-Oldest person ever verified. French.
Shigechiyo Izumi-120 years 237 days, born 29 June 1865, died 21 February 1986-Oldest male ever verified. Japanese. 6

7. Wellness “Wellness is based on making sound health decisions and
Wellness- overall state of well being, or total health.
Achieving wellness requires an ongoing, lifelong commitment To physical, mental, and social health.
“Wellness is based on
making sound health
decisions and
practicing healthy
behaviors.” 7

8. Promoting Health
Lifestyle factors, or the way a person lives effects health, happiness, and longevity of life.
Longevity- refers to how long a person lives. 8

9. 10 Guidelines to promote longevity of life.
Getting 8-10hrs of sleep per night.
Eat breakfast
Eat nutritional foods
Physically active for 30 minutes 3x per week.
Maintaining a healthy weight. 9

10. Longevity Cont. 6) Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.
7) Abstain from sexual activity before marriage.
8) Manage stress
9) Maintain positive relationships
10) Practice safe behaviors 10

11. Wellness/Prevention
Prevention- is practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.
Health Education- the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices. 11

12. Healthy People 2010
Healthy people is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention for improving the health of all people in the United States.
Physical Activity 
Overweight and Obesity 
Tobacco Use 
Substance Abuse 
Responsible Sexual Behavior 
Mental Health 
Injury and Violence 
Environmental Quality 
Immunization 
Access to Health Care  12

13. Healthy People 2010
Goals of HP2010 include: increase the quality of life and remove health differences that result in factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location.
Individuals, families, and
communities. 13

15. Health Literacy
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. 15

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17. Chapter 1
Lesson 2

18. Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
You’ll Learn To:
Describe the importance of taking responsibility for establishing and implementing health maintenance for individuals of all ages
Explain how influences such as hereditary, environment, culture, media, and technology have impacted the health status of individuals, families, communities, and the world
Analyze the health messages delivered through media and technology.
Vocabulary:
Heredity
Environment
Peers
Culture
Media

19. Health Triangle 19

20. Physical Health How well you body functions Good physical health
Perform daily activities
Cope with everyday challenges and stress
Resist Diseases
Avoid injury

21. Being Physically Healthy
Getting adequate sleep
Eating nutritious meals
Drinking enough water
Being physically active on a regular basis

22. Mental/Emotional Health
Feelings about yourself
Demands of daily life
Ability to process information

23. Good Mental Health In touch with your feelings
Can express your feelings in appropriate ways
Deal with life frustrations without getting overwhelmed
Don’t dwell on negative thoughts

24. Social Health The way that you get along with others
Ability to make and keep friends
Communication
Respect

25. Influences on your Health
Heredity- refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
NO CONTROL 25

26. Environment Environment- the sum of your surroundings.
Physical/social realm
Evansville vs. New York city (Air Pollution)
Peers- are people of the same age who share similar interests. 26

27. Culture
Culture- refers to the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
Attitude- The way that you view a situation, your attitude greatly affects the choices you make.
Media- the various methods of communicating information.
Technology- impacts the health status of individuals, families, communities, and the world. 27

28. Chapter 1
Lesson 3

29. Your Behavior and reducing Health Risks
You’ll Learn to:
Describe ways to promote health and reduce risks.
Associate risk-taking with consequences.
Analyze the importance of abstinence from sexual activity as the preferred choice of behavior in a relationship to all sexual activity for un married persons of school age.
Communicate the importance of practicing abstinence.
Vocabulary:
Risk Behaviors
Cumulative risks
Abstinence

30. Health Risks
Risk Behaviors- are actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others.
Cumulative Risks- are related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
Repeated over time
More behaviors involved= more increased risks 30

31. Health Risks 31

32. Abstaining from Risk Behaviors
Abstinence- avoiding harmful behaviors including tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and sexual activity. 32

33. Teens who abstain from sexual activity….
Never worry about pregnancy
Caring for a child
STD’s
Are free from emotional problems such as guilt, regret, and rejection. 33

34. USA/Africa
Average life expectancy in Africa is 50. While in the USA the average life expectancy is around 80.
WHY? 34

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