1. An Invitation to Health Your Invitation to Healthy Change
Chapter 1:
Your Invitation to Healthy Change

2. Health and Wellness Health Wellness Sound in body, mind, and spirit.
Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
Wellness
Purposeful, enjoyable living.
A deliberate lifestyle choice characterized by personal responsibility and optimal enhancement of physical, mental, and spiritual health.

3. The Wellness-Illness Continuum

4. The Dimensions of Health: Physical Health
Positive steps away from illness and toward
well-being:
Nutritious diet
Regular exercise
Avoidance of harmful behaviors and substances
Monitor early signs of illness
Accident protection

5. The Dimensions of Health: Psychological Health
Emotional and mental states—our
feelings and our thoughts.

6. The Dimensions of Health: Spiritual Health
Sense of connectedness to a greater power.
Identify one’s basic purpose in life.
Learn how to experience love, joy, peace,
and fulfillment.
Help ourselves and others achieve full
potential.

7. The Dimensions of Health: Social Health
Ability to interact effectively with other people and
the social environment.
Ability to develop satisfying interpersonal
relationships.
Ability to fulfill social roles.

8. The Dimensions of Health: Intellectual Health
Ability to think and learn from life experiences.
Openness to ideas.
Capacity to question and evaluate information.

9. The Dimensions of Health: Environmental Health
Impact your world has on your well-being.

10. Healthy People 2010
The federal government identifies the most significant preventable threats to health and creates leading indicators that assess the health of Americans.
Healthy People 2010 is the prevention agenda for the nation.
1st Goal
To help individuals of all ages increase life expectancy
and improve their quality of life.
2nd Goal
To eliminate health disparities among different
segments of the population.

11. Is Race a Factor in Health?
Yes—some races have higher rates of:
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
Infant mortality
Mental health
Infectious disease
HIV and other STIs

12. What Can I Do to Improve My Health If My Racial Background Puts Me at Risk?
Know about your family’s medical history–this is the single greatest risk factor for disease.
Ask about risks for any medical conditions or disorders based on your family history, racial, or ethnic background.
Find out if there are tests that could determine your risks.
Find steps you can take that may lower your vulnerability to disease.
Bring someone else with you for support and to help you remember what you learn.

13. Staying Healthy on Campus
Prevention
Identify health risks.
Reduce stressors.
Prevent potential medical problems.
Enhance well-being.
Protection
Avoid risky behavior.
Prevent injury and unwanted risks.
Understand Risky Behaviors
Become An Informed Consumer

14. Making Quality Health-Care Decisions
Improving Your Health Literacy
Understand health information and use it to make good decisions about health and medical care.
Finding Good Advice Online
Check the creator and references.
Consider the author.
Look for possible bias.
Getting Medical Facts Straight
Making Sense of Medical Research
Evidence-Based Medicine

15. The Stages of Change and Some Change Processes

16. What are The Stages of Change?
Pre-contemplation
No intentions of making a change in the
next six months.
Change remains hypothetical, distant, and
vague.

17. What are The Stages of Change?
Contemplation
Aware they have a problem behavior and
consider changing within the next six months.
Understand that change is necessary, but there
is a lack of commitment.

18. What are The Stages of Change?
Preparation
Intend to change a problem behavior
within the next months.
Gather information and supplies for change.

19. What are The Stages of Change?
Action
Modifying their behavior according to their plan.

20. What are The Stages of Change?
Maintenance
Continued to work at changing behavior and
have avoided relapse for at least six months.

21. What are The Stages of Change?
Termination
After two to five years behavior can
become so deeply ingrained that a person
cannot imagine abandoning it.

22. Making Change Happen Choosing a Change Get Real
How close are you to making a choice?
What is your usual approach to choosing?
Evaluate past decisions.
Get Ready
Assess your greatest change need.
Get Going
Lock It In

23. Making Healthy Changes
Use seat belts.
Eat an extra fruit or vegetable every day.
Get enough sleep.
Take regular stress breaks.
Lose a pound.
If you’re a woman, examine your breasts regularly.
If you’re a man, examine your testicles regularly.
Get physical.
Drink more water.
Do a good deed.