Transcript Factors that affect health status

September 15, 2011
J.E. #2: Wellness Wheel
 What dimensions of health did you score highest in?
 What dimensions of health do you need improvement
in?
 Are you balanced in all dimensions of health?
 Describe the relationship between the shape of your
wellness wheel (perfect circle, jagged uneven spokes of
the wheel, etc) and the “shape” of your wellness
Uncontrollable vs. Controllable
Factors
 In your groups, make two columns:
Uncontrollable
Controllable
 Categorize each of the factors into a column
 Group should come to a consensus
 Be prepared to explain your reasoning
1. Heredity
 The passing of characteristics from biological parents
to their children
 Things that you inherit
 Eye Color
 Hair color
 Height
 Diseases
2. Quality of the Environment
 Everything around a person
 This includes:
 The air you breathe
 The water you drink
 The place you live
3. Random Events
 An event over which a person has little or no control
 Unexpected occurrences
 Accidents
4. Health Care
 The professional medical and dental care that
promotes a person’s health
 Availability to:
 Doctor/Hospital visits
 Health Insurance
 Medications-OTC and Prescription
5. Behaviors You Choose
 Healthful Behavior
 Risk Behavior- an action a person chooses that
threaten health; can cause injury, illness, and
premature death; and destroys the environment.
 Based on what you have learned:
 The actions you take
 How you respond to things
6. Quality of your Relationships
 A connection a person has with another person
 Healthful relationship
 Harmful relationship
 This could be:
 Family
 Friends
 Peers
 Co-workers
 Teacher/Coach
 Significant Other
7. Decisions You Make
 A choice you make
 Inactive decision- failure to make a decision
 Reactive decision- letting others choose for you
 Proactive decision- measuring pros and cons, evaluating
consequences, owning the outcome
8. Ability to use Resistance Skills
 Skills that help a person say “no”
 Say no with confidence
 Give Reasons
 Broken-Record
 Non-verbal (body language)
 Avoid pressure situations
 Peer pressure- influence that people of similar age or
status place on others to behave in a certain way.
9. Risks You Take
 A chance that a person takes that has an unknown
outcome
 Calculated Risk-a chance that a person takes after
careful consideration
 Unnecessary Risk- a chance that is not worth taking
after the possible outcomes are considered
10. Your Resilience
 Ability to adjust, recover, bounce back and learn from
difficult times
 Getting help and support from others
 Staying optimistic
 Learn and grow
Exit Ticket
 List 5 controllable factors that affect a person’s health
status.