1. Got Health: Skills to Living a Healthy Lifestyle

2. Julie Petty, Partners for Inclusive Communities Disability and Health

3. Disability and Health Program Improve accessibility of public health programs and services for people with disabilities. Increase the integration of people with disabilities into existing health promotion and prevention programs.

4. Risk Factors for Chronic Disease Overweight/Obesity Physical Inactivity Tobacco Use High Cholesterol High Blood Pressure

5. Risk Factor: Overweight/Obesity Obesity is an excess of body fat that frequently results in a significant harm to your health. Overweight and obesity are both labels for ranges of weight that are greater than what is generally considered healthy for a given height.

6. Risk Factor: Physical Inactivity- not moving or excising your body.

7. Risk Factor: Tobacco Use smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco

8. Risk Factor: High Cholesterol a fatty substance found in animal tissue and is an important component to the human body. It is manufactured in the liver and carried throughout the body in the bloodstream. Problems can occur when too much cholesterol forms an accumulation of plaque on blood vessel walls, which impedes blood flow to the heart and other organs.

9. Risk Factor: High Blood Pressure "Blood pressure" is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps out blood. If this pressure rises and stays high over time, it can damage the body in many ways.

10. Chronic Disease & Disability Status

11. What do You need to Live Healthy!?!

12. Healthy Lifestyle Wheel

13. Emotional Health Having a positive self-esteem and think good about yourself and being happy with who you are as a person. Positive self talk Having good stress management skills, having the ability to adjust, change and cope in a healthy despite disappointments and frustration.

14. Physical Health Regular exercise Avoid addictions Get regular check ups/doctor/dental Eat healthy foods

15. Social Health Make close friends Go out with friends doing and have fun Visit with family

16. Health Through Meaningful Activities Do work you enjoy Volunteer Get a hobby

17. Spiritual/Living Your Values Connect all areas Know your values Live your values Be who you are

18. What are YOU going to do to Live Well?

19. SHARE TIME

20. My Healthy Lifestyles Goals

21. Contact Information Julie Petty – Arkansas Disability and Health Program – at Partners for Inclusive Communities/UAMS 2001 Pershing Circle, Suite 300 NLR, AR 72114 (501)682-9900 japetty@uams.edu Arkansas Disability and Health Program website: www.uams.edu/ar_disabilitywww.uams.edu/ar_disability