Introduction to Health

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Introduction to Health
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• - Health education is the providing of health
  information in such a way that it influences
  people to change their attitudes so they take
  positive action about their health.

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• Knowledge does NOT equal behavior change.
• What does this mean?
• Answer on your outline

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• Quality vs. Quantity
• Quality The level of satisfaction a person has
  in being alive
• Quantity Life expectancy how long a person
  will live

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• Life Expectancy
• Female 80.5 years
• Male 75.4 years
• www.cdc.gov

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• Health is
• 20 Heredity
• 10 Environment
• 20 Health Care
• 50 Lifestyle

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• Health A range of states including
• Physical
• Social
• Intellectual
• Behavioral
• Emotional
• Spiritual

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Behavioral Health

• Control over actions
• Flexible problem solving
• Relatively free of self-defeating habits
• Time and money management

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Intellectual Health

• Challenge self
• Stimulate intelligence
• Control over thinking
• Self-expectations are positive, flexible and
  realistic

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Social Health

• Comfortable with others
• Time with self and others
• Strong friendships/support system
• How you act in different situations

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Emotional Health

• Aware of emotions
• Accepting and understanding of own emotions

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Physical Health

• Deals with body, energy
• Includes nutrition, sleep, fitness and relaxation

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Spiritual Health

• Beliefs and values
• Sense of purpose
• In touch with inner self
• May or may not include religion

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• Answer on your outline
• - In what areas of the TPC do you feel you need
  to improve the most? How can you accomplish this?

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Habits

• Habits are things we do repeatedly
• On your outline list 3 good habits, 3 bad
  habits, and 3 habits that do not matter

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California Study 6 Healthy Habits

• 1) Sleeping regularly and adequately
• 2) Eating regular meals, including breakfast
• 3) Engaging in regular physical activity
• 4) Not smoking
• 5) Not using alcohol
• 6) Keeping weight under control

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Paradigms - Self

• Write on outline how you saw yourself in the
  past, how you see yourself now, and why that
  changed

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Paradigms - Others

• A person or group I may have judged inaccurately
  without having all the details is
• This paradigm changed because

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Paradigms - Life

• What has been a life center?
• Examples include friends, stuff, boy/girl friend,
  school, parents, and sports or hobbies
• Why did it change?

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Values

• Not something you say but something you do!
• Chosen freely (not forced or coerced)
• Chosen from among alternatives
• Not impulsive
• Tend to have persistence and assume a pattern in
  our lives (habits)
• Show up in EVERY ASPECT of our living
• Have a positive quality for us

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Motivation

• The force that moves people to actinstinctive or
  learned (hunger, sleep)
• Motivation is shaped by four factors
• 1) Value of the reward
• 2) Timing
• 3) Cost
• 4) Probability