Transcript Lesson 1

Lesson 1
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’ll learn to:
Relate the nation’s health goals and objectives in
Healthy People 2010 to individual, family, and community
health.
Develop evaluation criteria for health information.
Discuss 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, being healthy means striving to be the best you can
be at any given time.
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The Importance of Good Health
The Health Continuum
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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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Promoting Your 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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Promoting Your Health
Wellness and Prevention
A key to your wellness is prevention.
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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 give tools to live long,
energetic, and productive lives.
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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.
Communities can provide health services and offer
behavior-changing classes.
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Promoting Your Health
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.
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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
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.
1. Health education
_________ 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.
2. Prevention
3. Health literacy
4. Wellness
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Quick Review - Answer
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
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q.
Write a paragraph using the terms health, wellness, and
health education.
Click Next to view the answer.
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Quick Review - Answer
Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional,
and social well-being.
Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total health.
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
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Explain how being health literate helps you achieve and maintain
good health.
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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, being healthy 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.
Lesson 1
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 health
of well-being, or
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
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
The Importance of Health Education
Health is critical to quality of life.
The goal of health education is to give tools to live long,
energetic, and productive lives.
Health
education involves
providing accurate
health information to
help people make
healthy choices.
Lesson 1
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.
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.
Lesson 1
Promoting Your Health
Becoming Health Literate
A health-literate individual needs to
be:
Health
refers to
A critical thinker
andliteracy
problem
solver. a person’s capacity to learn
about and understand basic
health productive
informationcitizen.
and
A responsible,
services and use these
A self-directed
learner.
resources
to promote his or
her health and wellness.
An effective communicator.