1. To understand the concept of prevention.
Learning Target
To understand the concept of prevention.

2. Opening activity Draw the wellness continuum
Put a Large circle where you would have put yourself on Friday.
Using arrows, show how decisions over the weekend affected your place on the continuum (3 arrows at least).
Put a dot where you ended up today 2

3. OA # 2 Imagine you are at the HorseShoe Casino...
You see a game: You pay $4 to play and the guy tells you that you increase your chances more and more every time you play
The Prize: Pay the man $20,000 (you pay)
Why or why wouldn’t you play the game? 3

4. OA #3 (not written)
Imagine there are 3 boxes placed outside your door with a sign reading: “Your choice will determine how your life will proceed”
Decisions that will make you healthy
Decisions that could make you unhealthy
Decisions that could kill you
Which box would you choose?
The answer seems clearcut right?
When you make real life decisions do you stop to think about which box you are choosing?

5. 3 Levels of Prevention Primary Prevention Best Secondary Prevention
Middle Avg.
Tertiary Prevention Worst

6. Primary Prevention -
(stoping it before it happens/ eliminating the risk)
- relates to those actions that change the environment: physically, socially, to reduce the likelihood that disease will occur (ex… hand washing).

7. Secondary Prevention-
Indicates early detection and treatment.
~Common for most people
~Status Quo in the USA
~What is wrong with this?

8. Tertiary Prevention- Takes an unnecessary toll on the body.
*Prevents you from participation in your daily routine.
- You ignored the warning signs and have worse consequences

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLi7H Mah4Kc

10. USA HEALTHCARE $ 2.9 Trillion Hospital care ($936.9 billion)
Physicians and clinical services ($586.7 billion)
Prescription drugs ($271.1 billion)

11. Exit Slip
List & explain 2 reasons why people in our society do not live a preventative lifestyle.
List 3 ways you can live a preventive lifestyle. 11