1. Taking Responsibility for Health
Lesson 1

2. What is health? Physical Mental-emotional Family-Social
Health is a balance…

3. Health Triangle Think – Pair – Share
What is the health triangle?
Why is it important?
Take a few minutes to think about these questions. Talk with someone sitting next to you.

4. The Health Triangle The relationship between the three kinds of health
Physical – condition of a person’s body
Mental-emotional – condition of a person’s mind and feelings
Family-social – the condition of a persons relationships with family and friends

5. Health Status
The sum of positive and negative influences on a person’s health and well being.
Are you a risk taker?
Before you make a choice think about how it will affect your health…
Brainstorm healthful behaviors
Brainstorm risk behaviors

6. Factors that Affect Health Status
Health Knowledge
Access
Behaviors
Influence (culture, media, technology)
Communication Skills
Decisions
Advocacy Skills
Heredity
Environment
Random Events

7. Factors that Affect Health Status
Health Knowledge
The info and understanding a person has about health
Access
Do you know where to find health information
Do you have access to health information
Can you afford health care products, prescriptions and doctors appointments

8. Factors that Affect Health Status
Behaviors
Do you make healthful or harmful choices
Influences (culture, media, technology)
Culture – influences how you think and what you do.
Media – TV, Radio, Billboards, Models, Magazines
Technology – The internet, it isn’t always a good thing

9. Factors that Affect Health Status
Communication skills
The way in which a person chooses to share feelings, thoughts, and information with others
Do you convey your feelings to others
Do you suppress your feelings
Resistance skills – methods a person can use to say no to an action or situation
Conflict resolution skills – steps that you can take to settle disagreements in a responsible way

10. Factors that Affect Health Status
Decisions
Many decisions we make have long term consequences
Do you chose to smoke, drink or do drugs
Do you chose to eat healthy

11. Factors that Affect Health Status
Health Advocacy Skills
Skills used to influence the health behavior and decisions of others and to advance health-related beliefs and concerns
Heredity
The passing of characteristics or traits from biological parents to their children
Protective factor – increases the odds of a positive outcome
Risk factor – increases the odds of a negative outcome

12. Factors that Affect Health Status
Environment
Did you grow up in the city or country
Do you have access to fresh grown fruits and vegetables
Is the air you breath and the water you drink clean?
Random Events
An incident that a person has little or no control

13. Risks and Random Events
Risk – a chance that has an unknown outcome
Calculated risk
A chance that a person takes after carefully considering all possible outcomes
Unnecessary Risk
A chance after weight all the outcomes, you decide isn’t worth it

14. The Wellness Scale
Examine the 10 factors that affect health status. Rate your wellness by considering where you might be on the wellness scale

15. Vocab Practice
Family-social health Health-literate person random event
Health Health status risk
Health concept Mental-emotional health wellness
Health knowledge *** Some responses can be used more than once***
1. Riding in a car without wearing a safety belt is an example of a ___________________
2. Understanding that wearing a safety belt while riding in a car greatly reduces your chances of injury is an example of _____________________
3. Your health status can be affected by a _______________, such as being on a bus when it crashes.
4. The condition of your body, your mind, and your personal relationships all contribute to your general ____________
5. Making decisions that have positive effects on your health is an advantage of being a ___________
6. Expressing yourself clearly and listening when others speak are two examples of ways to maintain ___________
7. Understanding that wearing sun block when you are going to be in the sun can help prevent you from developing skin cancer is an example of ____________
8. You can promote optimal _________ for yourself by being aware of the factors that affect your health status.
9. Applying your knowledge of the risk factors for heart disease by ordering a salad at a restaurant is an example of using a ____________ in a real-life situation.
10. A person’s __________ is affected by several factors, including access to health information, communication skills and heredity.
11. Reading, having challenging conversations, and expressing feelins in healthful ways are ways to maintain ____________