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Your Health and Wellness
Lifestyle factors help determine a person’s level of health.
Establishing a regular sleep schedule can help you get enough
sleep each night. Such lifestyle factors promote good health.
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Lesson Objectives
In this lesson, you will learn to:
• Explain how the nation’s health goals relate to individual,
family, and community health
• Describe the criteria for evaluating health information
• Understand the importance of health literacy for achieving
and maintaining good health
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The Importance of Good Health
What Is Good Health?
Good health is much more than just the absence of disease.
Instead, achieving good health means striving to be the best
you can be at any given time.
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The Health Continuum
The Importance of Good Health
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The Importance of Good Health
Health Along the Continuum
• Health is dynamic.
• The health continuum spans the complete spectrum of
health from chronic disease and premature death to a
high level of health.
• Along the continuum are many points where your health
could be located at any given time.
• Changes along the continuum may occur suddenly or
gradually.
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The Importance of Good Health
Wellness
A person with a balanced life has a high degree of wellness.
Achieving wellness requires you to:
• Make decisions and practice behaviors based on sound
health knowledge and healthful attitudes.
• Have an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical,
mental/emotional, and social health.
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The Importance of Good Health
Lifestyle Factors
Experts have identified habits that affect people’s overall
health, happiness, and longevity, or how long they live. These
habits, or lifestyle factors, are personal behaviors related to
the way a person lives.
Lifestyle factors that promote good health include:
• Getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night.
• Starting each day with a healthy breakfast.
• Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
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Promoting Your Health
More Lifestyle Factors
• Being physically active for at least 20 minutes a day, three
or more days a week
• Maintaining a healthy weight
• Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
• Abstaining from sexual activity before marriage
• Managing stress
• Maintaining positive relationships
• Practicing safe behaviors to prevent injuries
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Wellness and Prevention
A key to your wellness is prevention.
Promoting Your Health
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Promoting Your Health
The Importance of Health Education
• Health is critical to quality of life.
• The goal of health education is to provide health information
to help people make healthy choices.
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Promoting Your Health
The Nation’s Health Goals
Healthy People 2010 is a plan that is revised every 10 years to
promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death.
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Promoting Your Health
Goals of Healthy People 2010
• Individuals can take an active role in their own health.
• Families can shape their attitudes and beliefs that results
in healthful behaviors.
• Communities can provide health services and offer
behavior-changing classes.
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Becoming Health Literate
A health-literate individual needs
to be:
• A critical thinker and problem
solver.
• A responsible, productive
citizen.
• A self-directed learner.
• An effective communicator.
Promoting Your Health
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q.
_________ is 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.
1. Healthy People
2010
2. Health education
3. Health literacy
4. Health
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Quick Review - Answer
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1. Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 is 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.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q.
_________ is a person’s
capacity to learn about and
understand basic health
information and services and
use these resources to
promote his or her health and
wellness.
1. Health education
2. Prevention
3. Health literacy
4. Wellness
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Quick Review - Answer
3. Health literacy
Health literacy is a person’s capacity to learn about and
understand basic health information and services and
use these resources to promote his or her health and
wellness.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q.
Health education involves
providing accurate health
information to help people
make healthy choices.
True
False
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Quick Review - Answer
True. Health education involves providing accurate
health information to help people make healthy choices.
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q.
Health literacy refers to a
person’s ability to read and
understand basic health
information.
True
False
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Quick Review - Answer
False. Health literacy is a person’s capacity to learn
about and understand basic health information and
services and then use these resources to promote his
or her health and wellness.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review - Answer
Correct! Healthy People 2010 is 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.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try
again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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Quick Review - Answer
Correct! Health literacy is a person’s capacity to learn
about and understand basic health information and
services and use these resources to promote his or her
health and wellness.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try
again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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The Importance of Good Health
What Is Good Health?
Good health is much more than just the absence of disease.
Instead, achieving good health means striving to be the best
you can be at any given time.
Health is the
combination of physical,
mental/emotional, and
social well-being.
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The Importance of Good Health
Wellness
A person with a balanced life has a high degree of wellness.
Achieving wellness requires you to:
Wellness is
an overall state
• Make decisions and practice behaviors based on sound
of well-being, or
health knowledge and healthful attitudes.
total health.
• Have an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical,
mental/emotional, and social health.
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Promoting Your Health
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Wellness and Prevention
A key to your wellness is prevention.
Prevention is
practicing health and
safety habits to
remain free of
disease and injury.
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Promoting Your Health
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The Importance of Health Education
• Health is critical to quality of life.
• The goal of health education is to provide health information
to help people make healthy.
Health
education involves
providing accurate
health information to
help people make
healthy choices.
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Promoting Your Health
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The Nation’s Health Goals
Healthy People 2010 is a plan that is revised every 10 years to
promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death.
Healthy People 2010 is
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.
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Becoming Health Literate
A health-literate individual needs
to be:
Health
literacy
refers to
• A critical thinker
and
problem
solver. a person’s capacity to learn
about and understand basic
health information
• A responsible,
productive and
citizen. services and use these
resources to promote his or
• A self-directed learner.
her health and wellness.
• An effective communicator.
Promoting Your Health
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Quick Review - Answer
Correct! Health education involves providing accurate
health information to help people make healthy choices.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try
again, or click Next to view the correct answer.
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Quick Review - Answer
Correct! Health literacy is a person’s capacity to
learn about and understand basic health
information and services and then use these
resources to promote his or her health and
wellness.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review - Answer
You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try
again, or click Next to view the correct answer.