1. Your Health & Wellness Chapter 1 Lesson #1 pg 4-9
Today’s Lesson Objectives:
Objective 1: Explain how the nation’s health goals relate to
individual, family, and community health.
Objective 2: Describe the criteria for evaluating health information.
Objective 3: Understand the importance of health literacy for
achieving and maintaining good health.

2. In-Class Assignment: Write your answers on your own paper
List the most important things in your life.
From your list, are any more important than your health or the health of those you care most about?

3. In-Class Assignment: Define Health: Define Wellness:
Describe in your own words the difference between health and wellness.
List lifestyle factors that affect your health.
If you were to pick one lifestyle factor to improve on, how would you do so?

4. Health
A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Health is dynamic, meaning it is subject to constant change.
Being healthy does not mean you will never get sick, but instead, means understanding and knowing various strategies when making decisions related to your health. **

5. Think of your health at any moment as a point along a continuum spanning the complete spectrum of health.
Changes along the continuum can occur suddenly or progress over time
Continuum on page 5
*At a minimum, health means freedom from disease, poor physical condition, social maladjustment, and any other possible negative state.
*At a maximum, health means “wellness.”

6. Wellness Wellness: an overall state of well being, or total health
It comes from making decisions and practicing behaviors that are based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes.
Achieving wellness requires an ongoing lifelong commitment.
All the characteristics that make you strong, happy, and able to function well with friends and family, and in school

7. The decisions you make every day effect your health and wellness.
Positive lifestyle factors include:
Getting 8-10 hours of sleep each night
Starting each day with a healthy breakfast
Maintaining a healthy weight
Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other harmful drugs
Abstaining from risky sexual behaviors
Managing stress
Practicing safe behaviors in all other areas
Full list on page 6

8. Prevention
Practicing health and safety habits to remain free from disease and injury
“An ounce of prevention is worth
10 pounds of cure”
Question: Are we a country that promotes prevention or cure?
Examples…?
-Wearing seat belts, using sunscreen, avoiding unsafe areas, etc…

9. Learning how to become and stay healthy should be a top priority.
Health Education provides accurate health information for people to use as a guide to make healthy choices
Web site:

10. National Health Goals Healthy People 2020
A Nationwide plan to promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death
1st goal: Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death
2nd goal: Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
3rd goal: Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
4th goal: Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Health education effects more than just students.
2010 = health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the united states
* To reach these goals, individuals, families, and communities must work together.

11. As more individuals take charge of their own wellness, global health can improve
Individuals: play an active role in their own health through daily decisions
Families: shape the attitudes and beliefs that result in healthful individual behaviors
Communities: provide health services and ensure a safe environment
Page 7 (at the end of lesson one in chapter one)

12. Health Literacy
A person’s ability to learn about and understand basic health information and services, and how to use these resources to promote his/her health and wellness
A health literate person knows how to access resources from home, school, and the community
Recognize early warning signs!

13. In class activity…
In regards to your health, where are you on the spectrum right now?
Where do you want to be a month from now?
Where do you want to be a year from now?
What can you do to make these changes?
Explain how being health literate can help you to achieve and maintain these health related goals.

14. Interactive Study Guide for lesson 1