1. Wellness and Quality of Life
Mr. Prill’s Health Class

2. Quality of Life
Quality of Life- The degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
What three characteristics determine a person’s quality of life?
Physical Health
Mental Health
Social Health

3. Wellness
Wellness- A broad view of health that is seen as the combination of physical, mental, and emotional health.
Wellness cannot be achieved by someone unless they realize that all three aspects of health (health triangle) are equally important to their overall well-being.

4. Illness-Wellness Continuum
What is a continuum?
A gradual progression through many stages between one extreme and another.

5. Illness-Wellness Continuum

6. Illness-Wellness Continuum
Illness-Wellness Continuum- is a model that illustrates the full range of health between the extremes of illness and wellness.
Each person’s overall wellness (physical, mental, and emotional) is marked by some point on the continuum.
Individuals can move in either direction on the continuum. Moving themselves closer to illness or wellness.
Individual choices controls where a person falls on the continuum.

7. Risk Factors
Risk Factor- is any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcomes.
What are some common risk factors that you may face?

8. Risk Factors

9. Risk Factor Categories
Physical
Social
Environmental

10. Risk Factors
Heredity- all of the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child.
Disability- any physical or mental impairment that limits or reduces a person’s ability to participate in normal activities.
Examples:
Muscular Dystrophy
High Blood Pressure
Breast Cancer
Diabetes

11. Risk Factors
Environment- all of the physical and social conditions surrounding a person and the influences they have on the person.
Physical Environment- your outdoor and indoor surroundings.
Outdoor examples:
Air quality
Water quality
Radiation from the sun
Poisonous wastes
Loud noise
Indoor examples:
Home
School
Factories
Offices

12. Risk Factors
Social Environment- The people that surround you. Friends, family, classmates and others.
Examples:
Family influences
Peer Pressure

13. Risk Factors
Culture- the beliefs and patterns of behavior that are shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation.
Examples:
Language
Food Choices
Attitudes
Traditions
Religion
Can any of these have an impact on a person’s health?

14. Exit Slip
Evaluate where you fall on the health continuum today and devise a plan for moving yourself closer to high level wellness.
What do choices have to do with the illness-wellness continuum and risk factors?