1. What does it mean to be healthy?
Lesson 1
August 24th, 2010

2. What does it mean to be healthy?
Allot depends on the culture

3. Describing Health
How are you feeling today? Health was once thought to be the absence of disease

4. There are 5 major components of health
Physical health
Social health
Mental health
Emotional health
Spiritual health

5. Physical Health Aspects of health related directly to the body.
Weight, strength, how your body functions
Absence of disease is a part of physical health
Improving physical fitness improves physical health

6. Social Health
Involves aspects interacting with people in your environment
Good relationships (social networks) with others are essential for your social health. (friends, family)
They help you determine your physical and emotional health.
In times of crisis they support you
Social networks give you a sense of belonging

7. Mental health
The state of mind that enables you to cope with the emotional demands of everyday life
Sense of self worth
Ability to cope with difficult situations
Stress is seen as a part of life

8. Emotional Health The ability to express feelings in appropriate ways
Ability to overcome difficulties
Enjoy life
See difficulties as challenges

9. Spiritual Health
Your relationship with others and the role of spiritual direction in your life.
Can be a number of things
Religion
Harmony in life
Peace with self and others.

10. Health and Wellness Health
The state of wellbeing that comes from realizing your potential in each of the 5 aspects of health.
Wellness
Optimal health
A state of wellness can be viewed by looking at your overall health as a range of possibilities.

11. Health-Illness Continuum
Your overall health can be plotted on a health- illness continuum.

12. Health-Illness Continuum

13. Questions:
How might a physical health problem such as a disease, affect the other components of your health?
Why is self esteem so important to overall health?
How can being physically fit improve self esteem
List the people you use for social support,
List two things you could do to improve you position on the health-illness continuum.