Transcript Health and Wellness

Can you determine what the
major difference is between the
leading cause of death in the
1890s to 1990s?
 *Infectious
Diseases
Diseases that are caused by infecting organism
 Can be passed from one person to another (polio, smallpox)
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 *Life-Style
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Diseases?
Disease from neglect to your body
Cannot be passed from person to person
Heart, lung, cancer, diabetes
Lifestyle Choices?
Choices made daily, of how to treat body and mind
Personal Behaviors related to how a person lives
We have the ability and the
responsibility to understand the
personal behaviors associated
with illness and learn the
necessary skills to change
unhealthy behavior, and to
promote wellness.
OBJECTIVES: EXPLAIN THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH AND
WELLNESS
 Do
you sometimes think you take your health
for granted?
Good health has traditionally been viewed as
freedom from disease; thus, if you were not sick,
you were considered healthy.
 While the absence of illness is one part of being
healthy, it doesn't indicate whether you are at an
optimal level of physical and psychological
health.
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Remember,
wellness if not just being free
from disease; it is the ability to function at
our best
 The
process of achieving individual
potential in the physical, social,
emotional, mental, and spiritual
areas.
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The achievement of the highest
level of health possible in each of
the several areas.
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Overall state of well being, or
total health
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Comes from making sound
decsions and practicing behaviors
that are based on sound health
knowledge and healthful
attitudes.
 Physical
Health
 Mental Health
 Emotional Health
 Social Health
 Spiritual Health
 Positive
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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
 Health
Triangle Video
 Physical
health deals
with the body’s
ability to function.
 Physical health has
many components
including: exercise,
nutrition, sleep,
alcohol & drugs, and
weight
management.
 Exercise
is the act of
using your muscles to
stay physically fit.
 Exercise helps to give
you more energy,
maintain weight,
increase confidence &
self esteem, and helps
to battle chronic
diseases.
 Proper
balanced
meals are essential in
leading a healthy life.
 Nutritious meals
create a balance
between what we eat
and the way our body
uses the food for
energy and growth.
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is recommended
that the average
person get at least
8-9 hours of sleep.
 The human body
likes regularity, so
try to go to bed and
wake up at the same
time daily.
Alcohol and other drugs
interfere with messages
to the brain and alters
perception.
 Use of such substances
puts you at risk for
accidental injuries, car
crashes, trouble with
the law, unwanted
pregnancies, and fights.
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 Maintaining
a healthy
weight decreases your
risk of certain
diseases such as heart
disease and diabetes.
 Exercise and proper
nutrition helps to
maintain healthy
weight levels.
 Feelings
about
yourself
 How well you meet
the demands of daily
life
 Ability to process
information
 encompasses learning,
stress management,
and mental illnesses
or disorders.
 Learning
is the
development of skills,
behaviors, and
knowledge.
 Learning increases selfconfidence, awareness,
and self perception. It
also teaches one coping
skills.
 Those in good
mental/emotional health
are in touch with their
feelings and can express
them in appropriate
ways.
 Stress
deals with the
way our bodies and
minds deal with life
changes.
 It is important to
learn healthy ways
to deal with stress
or you could be at
risk for anxiety or
depression.
 Stress
and problems
with school, friends,
and family can cause
mental illnesses.
 Mental illnesses
include: depression,
bipolar disorder,
schizophrenia, and
phobias.
 Social
Health deals
with the way you
react with people
within our
environment.
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includes: public
health, family
relationships, and
peer relationships.
 Public
health includes
disease prevention
and promoting health
through good decision
making.
 Keeping yourself safe
and healthy benefits
your community as a
whole.
A healthy family
relationship is one that
is supportive, loving,
responsible, and
balanced.
 Families should work
together to eliminate
stress and negativity in
the home. Promoting a
safe and enjoyable
environment.
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 Strong
and supportive
friendships increase
happiness, selfesteem, and reduces
stress.
 Friends are there to
help celebrate your
accomplishments and
there to offer support
in times of need.
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lot more than religion
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is a set of beliefs, principles, or
values that guide your life.
 Something
to turn to in hard times.
 Encompasses
a level of faith,
hope, and commitment to your
individual beliefs that provide a
sense of meaning and purpose.
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There are 3 major areas of
the health triangle
Displays how 3 components
are connected.
When one side gets too much
attention whole triangle
becomes unbalanced
To maintain health, you need
to take personal
responsibility for establishing
and implementing health
maintance for all 3 sides of
triangle
Wellness, a positive approach to life and
health, maximizes the individual's potential. It
involves the “whole” person - physically,
emotionally, and on a psychological basis.
A personal wellness lifestyle is associated with
good physical health, emotional stability, and
improved personal relationships.
 Wellness
is a process, not a static state of
being.
 You do not just get well or stay well.
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There are many degrees or levels of wellness,
just as there are degrees of illness.
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One can always be moving towards better
health, no matter how well you are.
 Wellness
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is not the absence of disease.
can be at a neutral point, without
discernible illness, yet still feel tired, run
down, bored, depressed, tense, anxious or
even not in control of your life….
• Shows that health can be measured on a sliding scale, with
many degrees of health and wellness.
• This continuum spans the complete spectrum of health from
chronic disease and premature death to a high level of
health.
• Since health is not constant, think of your health at any
moment as a point along the continuum. Changes can occur
suddenly.
 Traditional
medicine simply works with the
signs and symptoms of disease.
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Wellness Continuum extends the
definition of health to encompass a process
of awareness, education and growth, which
is based on self-responsibility.
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Wellness is the integration of body, mind
and spirit-all that you do, think and feel
impacts your state of health.
 Prevention:
practicing health and safety
habits to remain free of disease and injury
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AWARNESS: How are you living your life? How
could you pro-actively improve or change it?
EDUCATION: What are your options? Looking
within? Receiving from others
GROWTH: Trying out those options, then
reevaluating by going back to step one-back to
awareness
 1.
What are the components of health?
 2.What
is the health continuum?
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Where do you think you are on the
health continuum right now?
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What are some things you control over,
to improve your placement on the
continuum?
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What could happen to change your
placement on the health continuum today?