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Section 1.3
Taking Responsibility for Your Health
Objectives
Describe the broad goals of Healthy People 2010.
Identify three steps you can take to meet your
personal health goals.
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Quick Quiz How many of these statements
accurately describe your behaviors?
I exercise at least three times a week.
I set aside some time each day to relax.
I get about eight hours of sleep each night.
I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
I always wear a seat belt when riding in a car.
Make a connection between the number of Yes
answers and how responsible you are about your
health.
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Efforts to Improve Health

• The Department of Health and Human Services has
  lead a national effort to improve the health in
  the United States. (18)
• PREVENTION!
• Developed the Healthy People 2010 Program (19)

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Healthy People 2010

• Healthy People 2010 has two broad goals. (20)

• Increase the years of healthy life for each
  American

• Eliminate differences in health based on race,
  ethnic group, or income

• Healthy People 2010 includes a set of smaller
  goals aimed at reducing risky health behaviors.

• A major focus of this effort is on
  prevention-taking action to avoid disease,
  injury, and other negative health outcomes.

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The graph shows causes of death for young people
in the United States.
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A Healthy You
There are three steps you can take to help meet
your personal health goals (21)
gaining awareness
gaining knowledge
building skills
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Gaining Awareness
You must first be able to recognize a health
problem before you can do anything about it.
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Gaining Knowledge

• The next step is to learn about the problem.

• Most importantly, you need to learn about risk
  factors, especially those related to behavior.

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Building Health Skills
Knowledge isnt very useful if you do not have
the skills to apply it.
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Building Health Skills
Analyzing Influences An important skill for
promoting health is recognizing the influence
culture, media, and friends have on your health
habits.
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Building Health Skills
Accessing Information You need to know how to
find and evaluate health information.
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Building Health Skills
Communicating Good communication skills allow
you to resolve conflicts.
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Building Health Skills
Making Decisions Making wise decisions is key to
protecting your health.

• This skill teaches you to consider your values.

• Your values are the standards and beliefs that
  are most important to you. (22)

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Building Health Skills
Setting Goals

• The goals you set help you translate knowledge
  into behavior.

• Once you set a goal, you can develop an action
  plana series of specific steps you can take to
  achieve the goal. (23)

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Building Health Skills
Practicing Healthful Behaviors You need to
develop strategies for maintaining healthy
behaviors and reducing risky behaviors.
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Advocacy
The skill of advocacy involves using
communication to influence and support others in
making positive health decisions. (24)
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Achieving Health Literacy
A person with health literacy has the ability to
gather, understand, and use health information
to improve his or her health. (25)
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QuickTake Quiz
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