Transcript healthful behavior

• Why is it important to write things down or have
them on paper?
• Why are contracts important?
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What You’ll Learn
1. Discuss the purpose of a health behavior
inventory.
2. Discuss healthful behaviors.
3. Give examples of
risk behaviors.
4. List the six categories
of risk behaviors
in teens.
5. List the five parts of a
health behavior contract.
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Key Terms
• behavior
• habits
• healthful behaviors
• risk behaviors
• health behavior
inventory
• health behavior
contract
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Health Behavior Inventories
• A behavior is the way
you act or choose to act in
a situation.
• Habits are fixed behaviors that
you use automatically.
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Health Behavior Inventories
• Healthful behaviors are
behaviors that promote health,
prevent injury and premature
death, and improve the
quality of the environment.
• Risk behaviors are behaviors that threaten
health, can cause injury or premature death
and harm, or destroy the environment.
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The Value of a Health Behavior Inventory
• You can have optimal health.
– Practicing healthful behaviors and avoiding
risk behaviors helps you to maintain optimal
health status.
– A health behavior inventory is a tool that
helps a person decide how well he or she is
practicing healthful behaviors.
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The Value of a Health Behavior Inventory
Six Categories of Risk Behaviors in Teens
These behaviors threaten health, can cause injury or
premature death, and/or destroy the environment:
• Behaviors that result in unintentional and
intentional injuries
• Tobacco use
• Alcohol and other drug abuse
• Sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection or other
sexually transmitted diseases and in unplanned
pregnancies
• Diet choices that contribute to disease
• Lack of physical activity
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Completing a Health Behavior
Inventory
• You can use this inventory to
become aware of healthful
behaviors that you already
practice and discover new
habits that could improve your
health status.
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How to Complete a Health
Behavior Inventory
• To take the inventory, number from 1 to 100 on
a sheet of paper.
• Click here to read each behavior (or refer to
pages 28–31 of your textbook). Write yes or no
next to the same number on your paper.
– Each yes indicates a behavior you practice.
– Each no indicates a behavior you do not
currently practice on a regular basis.
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How to Complete a Health
Behavior Inventory
• Review your responses and plan to continue
each healthful behavior that
you already practice.
• Make a list of the healthful
behaviors that you do not
yet practice.
• Select one and set realistic
steps to achieve the goal
of practicing this healthful
behavior.
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Health Behavior Contracts
• A health behavior contract is a
written plan that a person makes
in which he or she agrees to
develop the habit of practicing a
specific healthful behavior.
• The healthful behavior you want to
practice becomes a health goal.
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How to Create a Health
Behavior Contract
• The five steps to follow when making a health
behavior contract are:
1. Write your name and the date.
2. Write the healthful behavior you want to practice as a
health goal.
3. Write specific statements that describe how this
healthful behavior reduces health risks.
4. Make a specific plan for recording your progress.
5. Complete the evaluation of how the plan helped you
accomplish the health goal.
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Study Guide
1. Match the following terms and definitions.
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C behavior
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B healthful behavior
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D habit
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A risk behavior
A. health-threatening behavior
that can cause injury or early
death, or harm the
environment
B. health-promoting behavior
that can prevent injury and
early death or improve the
environment
C. way of acting in a situation
D. a fixed, automatic behavior
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Study Guide
2. Identify whether the following
statements are true or false.
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Healthful behaviors in the health behavior
false
inventory are of equal value.
_______
A health behavior contract is a written plan
true
to develop the habit of practicing a
healthful behavior.
_______
Lack of physical activity is a risk behavior
true
in teens.
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A habit is the way you act or choose to act
false
in a situation.
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Study Guide
3. List the six categories of risk
behaviors in teens.
1. Behaviors that result in unintentional and
intentional injuries
2. Tobacco use
3. Alcohol and other drug abuse
4. Sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection or
other sexually transmitted diseases and in
unplanned pregnancies
5. Diet choices that contribute to disease
6. Lack of physical activity
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