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HEALTHY CHOICES: Health Today
Lawndale High School
Ms. Mai
Health
What does “health” mean?
Health – a state of well-being
What defines a person’s state of well-being
has changed considerable over the years
Health: Past and Present
In the past, a healthy person was someone
who was considered to be free from disease
In the 1900, the leading cause of death were
infectious diseases from bacteria or viruses
Ten Leading Causes of Death
Ten Leading Causes of
Death in the U.S. (1900)
Ten Leading Causes of
Death in the U.S. (2000)
Rank
Cause of death
Rank
1
Pneumonia/influenza
1
Heart disease
2
Tuberculosis
2
Cancer
3
Diarrhea and enteritis
3
Stroke
4
Heart disease
4
Lung diseases
5
Stroke
5
Accidents
6
Nephritis
6
Diabetes
7
Accidents
7
Pneumonia/influenza
8
Cancer
8
Alzheimer’s disease
9
Diphtheria
9
Kidney disease
10
Meningitis
10
Septicemia
Cause of death
Causes in which diet plays a part
Causes in which diet plays a part
Causes in which alcohol plays a part
Causes in which alcohol plays a part
Medical Advances
Over the years, research has been able to
identify many causes of life-threatening
diseases
Through improved working and living
conditions and new medicine, many
diseases were brought under control in the
last 100 years
Today, poor health is highly related to our
own personal lifestyle
Medical Advances
Therefore, the health focus of today is on
wellness instead of preventing infection
Wellness – a positive, whole-health
approach that includes physical, intellectual,
social, and emotion well-being (PISE)
Wellness does not mean that you have to be
the best, but it does mean striving to live
your life to its fullest potential and acting in
healthy ways to prevent unnecessary illness
Longevity
Controlling diseases has greatly increased
the life expectancy of people around the
world
Life Expectance – the measure of the
average number of years that a group of
people may expect to live
In the 1900, life expectancy was only 47 years.
Today, as long as you maintain good health,
life expectancy has increased to 78 years.
What Determines Health?
The United States Center for Disease
Control (CDC) have identified 4 main
factors that determine your health
1.
2.
3.
4.
Personal health behavior
Your physical environment
Hereditary influences
Quality of health-care services available
1. Personal Health Behavior
Health behaviors refers to patterns of
behaviors that affect your health now and as
you get older
Therefore, your personal lifestyle greatly
affects the quality of your health
Good health behaviors can increase the
average length of you life
Eight Good Healthy Behaviors
1. Sleeping 7 to 8 hours daily
2. Eating breakfast daily
3. Rarely eating between meals
4. Maintaining a healthy weight
5. Reducing fat and salt in meals
6. Getting regular physical exercise
7. Avoiding tobacco and alcohol
8. Appropriately using only legal medication
2. Your Physical Environment
Physical Environment – your surrounding
(any place you live, work, and play)
Your physical environment, including the
quality of air you breath, the noise level,
infected food or water, can all affect your
health
3. Hereditary Influences
Sometimes your ability to prevent diseases
may be limited by hereditary factors
Heredity – the biological passing of
physical traits from parents to their children
Although hereditary may effect your health,
the effects on your health can often be
reduced by choosing responsible health
behaviors
4. Quality of Health-Care Services
Regular medical and dental care can help
prevent many health problems
Preventing illnesses is usually easier than
curing an illness
Health
Discuss with a partner how much you think each
of the four main factors affect your health. Come
up with a percentage for each of the factors.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Personal health behavior (50%)
Your physical environment (20%)
Hereditary influences (20%)
Quality of health-care services available (10%)
Striving for Personal Wellness
As we now understand, the concept of
health has changed a lot over the years
Remember that wellness involves physical,
intellectual, social, and emotional (PISE)
well-being
The key to health lies in your ability to
achieve balance in all four areas of health
The 4 Factors of Health
1. Physical Wellness – health of your body
(exercise, nutrition, preventive care, and
avoiding abusive substances)
2. Intellectual Wellness – gathering knowledge
through stimulating learning experiences
(challenging your mind, solve problems)
The 4 Factors of Health
3. Emotional Wellness – awareness and
acceptance of your feelings and self-image
(self-expression, self-control, selfevaluation, enthusiasm for life)
4. Social Wellness – relationships with others
(make friends, cooperate with others,
productive member of society)
In Your Wellness Journal…
THE FOUR FACTORS OF HEALTH
Discuss each of the 4 factors of health in
your life. Rate each factor on a scale of 1 to
10. Which factor is your strength? Which
factor is your weakness? What is one thing
you can change in your lifestyle to improve
on your weakness?
Health in our Generation
Achieving personal wellness should be
everyone’s goal
Healthy People 2000 was published in 1990 as
a response to the concern of the well-being
our our nation as a whole with 3 major goals
1. Increase the span of a healthy life
2. Reduce health differences
3. Achieve better access to health service
Healthy People 2000
Along with these 3 goals, there were also
objectives in 22 areas related to health that
addressed age, income, race, and gender
Healthy People 2000 was published with
the goal of making the United States a
healthier nation by the year 2000. Read
each objective and consider what you think
our current status is. Also compare 2000
and 2010’s goal.