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What is health?
- Combined physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual and social well being.
- Not just lack of sickness.
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Health is subject to...
- constant change:
- sickness
- injury
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What is wellness?
Overall state of well being, total health.
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Your choices affect your health like
not using proper safety equipment can result in injury.
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Some habits effect a person's overall health, these are:
- -8-10 hours of sleep
- -healthy breakfast
- -Eating a variety of nutritious foods
- -physically active for at least 30 min three times a week
- -Maintaining healthy weight
- -Avoiding tobacco, alcohol and other drugs
- -abstainese
- -Managing stress
- -maintaing positive relationships
- -practiving safe behaviors
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Key to wellness:
Prevention: practicing safe habits to remaing free of diease and injury
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What can be used for prevention?
- Safety equipment:
- -sunscreen
- -avoiding unsafe areas
- -thinking ahead
- -staying happy and confident with who you are
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What is health education?
The providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.
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What is the goal of health education?
To show people how much better a healthy lifestyle is.
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WHat is the health continuium?
Balancing physical, spiritual, intellectual, emotional and social health.
Thinking positively of yourself, others, and the environment.
Choice: we have a choice to be healthy, in order to maintain constant health you must preservere, believe in self and choices.
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WHat is health literacy?
A person's capability to leatn about and understand the basic info and serveses and use these resources to promote his/her health and wellness.
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What can health literates do?
Access resources from home, school, and the community that provide valid health information
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Define a critical thinker/ problem solver?
A responsible person that knows what healhy choices to make.
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Define a responsible productive citizen
A healthy person that tries to spread and help others to be healthy
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Define a self directed learner
Someone who has very strong health knowledge from internet/media
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Define an Effective communicator
Someone able to express health knowledge in a variety of ways.
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What are the two main goals of healthy people 2010?
-Increase quality years of health for all Americans
-Remove health differences resulf from factors such as gender, race, education, diability and location.
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What do families, indiviguals,and communities have to do to reach this wellness?
- Work together to
- -get well to improve their comminities
- -take charge of their own health
- -Indiviguals can take an active role in their own health
- -families mucst shape attitudes and beliefs to improve health
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WHy should you care about health?
- -2 trillion is spent on health care per year.
- -Good health allows you to fell good and enjoy life
- -choices/ decicions you make today will affect your health now and in the future
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Define physical health
How well your body functions.
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WHen you have good health your body has enough energy to...
- -perform daily activities
- -cope with everyday challenges and stresses
- -Resist disease
- -avoid injury
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What are some things you do if you have/want good physical health?
- -pay attention to what you put in your body
- -drink enough water
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Define mental/emotional health
- Your:
- -Feelings about yourself
- -How well you meet demands of daily life
- -Ability to process information
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What are some examples of Mental/Emotional health?
- -Keep positive
- -Organization
- -Enjoy challenges
- -In touce with feelings
- -Express themselves appropriately
- -Avoid dwelling on on negitive thoughts
- -see positive in difficult situations
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Define social health.
The way you get along with others.
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What are some examples of social health?
- -ability to make and keep friends
- -ability to work and play incoroperative ways
- -communicating well
- -seeking and lending support when necessary
- -showing respect and care for yourself and others.
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Define intellectual health
ability to think and learn from experience, open to new ideas, ability to question and evaluate info.
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What are some examples of intellecutal health?
- -Utilization of human resources and learning resources to expand knowledge and improve skills
- -able to make decisions, set in realistic, yet challenging goals and figure out how to handle a problem.
- -Have desire to learn more and have an overall interest in what is going on around us.
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Define spiritual health.
- -unique to each person
- -"spirit" refers to deepest part of you that lets you make meaning of the world.
- -"Spirit" provides you with the sense of who you are, why you're here and what your purpose of living is. Allows you to gain strength and hope.
- -Not much thought of but it's impact on life is unavoidable
- -Basis is discovering sense of meaningfulness in your life and coming to know that you have a purpose to fulfill.
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What are some influences on your health?
- -Heredity
- -Environment
- -Attitude
- -Behavior
- -Media
- -Technology
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What is heredity?
- -All traits that are passed biologically to you by your parents
- -Inheriting some genes may put you at risk for some dieases; requiring you to take steps to reduce that risk and manage the illness.
- -other genes can strengthen reisitance to dieases
- -Important that you learn to evaluate how your genetics and health choices can tribute to diease
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Define environment.
- -Sum of your surroundings
- -Physical
- -Social
- -Peers, postive or negitive
- -Culture
- -Collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors. (language, foods, traditions)
- -Provides you with a sense of identity.
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Define attitude
The way you view situations.
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Define behaviors
-Can reduce risk of dieases (don't have to follow in family's footsteps)
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Define media
- -Radio, TV, internet, books
- -False or exaggerate information
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Define technology
- -Advancements in screenings and treatments for diease.
- -Keep air, land and water clean
- -Replaced many physical activites.
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What are risk behaviors?
Actions that can potentially threathen your health or the health of others.
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What are some examples of risk behviors?
- not using:
- -seatbelts
- -protective eye gear
- -helmets
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Define acumulative risk
Related risk that increases in effect with each added risk.
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What are some examples of a cumulative risks?
- -Occasional bad behviors won't kill you, but if these bad behviors are repeated overtime the negitive effects acculmulate and lead to serious consequences.
- -Also includes the combination of risk factors
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Define health skills
- -Life skills
- -specific tools and strategies that help maintain, protect and improve all aspects of your health
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Define interpersonal communications skills.
- -Part of health skills
- -Exchange of thoughts, feelings and beilefs between two ordinary people.
- -Effective communication skills for building and maintaining health relationships, such as:
- -Clearly say what you mean
- -"i" messages (I think that...)
- -Pay attention to how you say something
- -Verbal and non-verbal communication
- -Be a good listner
- -Lack of communication skills has been reported as the primary defiency of today's workers.
- -Communication breakdown is the major factor in marriage and family problems.
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Define refusal skills
Stratigies that can help you say no in pressure stituations.
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What are the 5 refusal stratigies?
- 1. say No in a firm voice.
- 2. Explain why
- 3. Suggest alternatives
- 4. Use appropriate body language
- 5. Leave if necessary.
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