Transcript Your Health and Wellness Chapter 1, pages 4-31

Your Health and Wellness
Chapter 1, pages 4-31
Health
• The combination of
your physical,
mental/emotional, and
social well-being
Physical Health
• How well your body
functions.
• Having a high level of
physical health means
having enough energy
to perform your daily
activities, deal with
everyday stresses, and
avoid injury.
Physical Health
5 important lifestyle
• Engage in 30-60
factors to keep a healthy
minutes of physical
body include:
activity every day
• Get 8-10 hours of sleep • Avoid the use of
each night
tobacco, alcohol, and
other drugs.
• Eat nutritious meals and
drink 8 cups of water
• Bathe daily, and use
each day.
floss and brush your
teeth every day.
Mental/Emotional Health
• How you feel about
yourself, how you relate
to others, how you
meet the demands of
life, and how you cope
with the problems that
occur in your life
Mental/Emotional Health
People who are mentally
and emotionally healthy:
• Enjoy challenges that
help them grow.
• Accept responsibility for
their actions.
• Have a sense of control
over their actions.
• Can express their
emotions in appropriate
ways.
• Usually can deal with
life’s stresses and
frustrations.
• Generally have a
positive outlook.
• Make thoughtful &
responsible decisions.
Mental/Emotional Health
Spiritual Health
• Mental/Emotional
health also includes
spiritual health, a deep
seated sense of meaning
and purpose in life.
• Being spiritually healthy
does not necessarily
mean that you belong
to a religious group, but
involves having a sense
of purpose and a sense
of values.
Social Health
The way you get along
with others.
Maintaining healthy
relationships involves:
• Seeking and lending
support when needed
• Communicating clearly
and listening to others
• Showing support and
care for yourself and
others.
Health Triangle
• A visual reminder that
all aspects of health are
of equal importance.
• If you concentrate too
much or too little on
one area, the triangle
becomes unbalanced.
Wellness
• An overall state of well- • Maintaining wellness
being or total health.
means keeping a
balance among the
• Wellness comes from
three components of
making decisions and
health.
practicing behaviors
that are based on sound
health knowledge and
healthful attitudes.
Health Continuum
• Your health changes
throughout your lifetime.
• Your health at any
moment can be seen as a
point along a continuum,
or sliding scale.
• The continuum spans the
complete range of health,
from loss of health and
wellness at one end to
high-level wellness at the
other.
Influences On Your Health
• It is your responsibility
to make healthy
decisions and take
actions to ensure your
well being.
• Some common
influences include:
1.Heredity
2.Environment
3.Attitude
4.Behavior
5.Media & Technology
Influences On Your Health
1. Heredity
• All the traits and
properties that are
passed along
biologically from both
parents to the child.
Influences On Your Health
2. Environment
• Sum total of your
surroundings – your
family, where you grew
up, where you live now,
and all your experiences
Influences On Your Health
2. Environment
a) Physical Environment
• Includes home,
neighborhood, school,
city, state, and country
Influences On Your Health
2. Environment
b) Social Environment
• Includes family, friends
and other people with
whom you come into
daily contact.
Influences On Your Health
2. Environment
Peers
• People of the same
age who share a
similar range of
interests.
Peer Pressure
• The urge to follow along
with the crowd.
a) Positive peer pressure
supports healthful
decisions.
b) Negative peer pressure
increases your health
risks.
Influences On Your Health
2. Environment
c) Cultural Environment
• Culture is the
collective beliefs,
customs, and
behaviors of a group.
• It includes influences
placed upon us by
society, religion and
ethnic beliefs.
It may include:
• Language you speak
• Foods you eat
• Your spiritual beliefs
• Traditions you practice
Influences On Your Health
3. Attitude
• The way you view a
situation.
• Optimists are people
who “see the glass as
half full” (positive) and
are usually in better
health than pessimists
(negative) who “see the
glass as half empty.”
Influences On Your Health
4. Behavior
• How you choose to
respond to your
environment.
• You have total control
over your own
behaviors.
Influences On Your Health
5. Media & Technology
• One of the most
powerful influences on
your health.
• Media are the various
methods for
communicating
information.
• This content is delivered
via technology, such as
radio, television, the
Internet, and through
print media.
Risk Behaviors
• Actions and behaviors
that can potentially
threaten you health or
the health of others.
• You can control most
risk behaviors.
Risk Behaviors
1. Tobacco use
4. Unhealthy eating
habits.
2. Alcohol and other drug
use.
5. Physical inactivity.
3. Sexual behaviors that
6. Behaviors that
may result in HIV
contribute to
infection, STDs, and
unintentional injuries
unintended
and violence.
pregnancies.
Cumulative Risks
Risks that increase
• Several risk factors that
gradually and may add up
are combined (i.e. using
to a negative consequence
cell phones while
that is greater than
driving)
expected.
• Related risks that
increase in effect with
each added risk (i.e.
smoking, eating fatty
foods, sunburns, etc.)
Cumulative Risks
You can protect your
health and minimize the
possibility of risk by:
1. practicing positive
health behaviors (i.e.
wearing seat belts,
checking water depth
before diving, wearing
a helmet)
2. Practicing prevention,
taking steps to keep
something from
happening or getting
worse (i.e. yearly
medical and dental
checkups)
Cumulative Risks
One of the most effective
strategies for protecting
your health is practicing
abstinence, the deliberate
decision to avoid high-risk
behaviors (deciding not to
do something).
Lifestyle Factors
Personal behaviors and
habits related to the way a
person lives, that help
determine his or her level
of health.
Lifestyle Factors
1. Get between 7-8 hours
of sleep per night.
2. Eat breakfast every
day.
3. Eat nutritious foods
from the various food
groups each day.
4. Do 30-60 minutes of
physical activity most
days of the week.
5. Maintain your
recommended weight.
6. Refrain from smoking
and using tobacco
products.
7. Do not use alcohol or
other drugs.
Health Education
Providing of accurate
health information and
teaching health skills in
such a way as to influence
people to change
attitudes so that they
make positive decisions
about their health.
Healthy People 2020
A nationwide health
promotion and disease
prevention plan designed
to serve as a guide for
improving the health of all
people in the United
States.
• The plan is revised
every 10 years
• The title changes
according to the year in
which the plan’s goals
apply.
Healthy People 2020
Goals of Healthy People
2020 include:
1. Promote the best
possible health in
order to end
preventable death,
illness, injury, and
disability.
2. Eliminate health
disparities.
3. Make wellness a way
of life and enhance
quality of life for
individuals and
communities.
4. Promote healthy
places and
environments.
Health Literacy
A person’s capacity to
learn about and
understand basic health
information and services,
and to use these
resources to promote
one’s health and wellness.
Health Literacy
Four qualities of a healthliterate individual include:
1. A critical thinker and
problem solver – a
person who can develop
evaluation criteria for
health information
before making decisions
2. A responsible,
productive citizen –
someone who acts in a
way that promotes the
health of the
community.
•
This person chooses
safe, healthful and legal
behaviors that are
consistent with family
guidelines and that
show respect for the
individual and others.
Health Literacy
3. A self-directed learner
– someone who
searches for health
information to make
health-related
decisions
4. An effective
communicator – a
person who is able to
express health
knowledge in a variety
of ways.