Living a Healthy Life

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Living a Healthy Life

• Chapter 1

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Your Health and Wellness

• Health is the combination of physical,
  mental/emotional, and social well-being

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The Health Continuum

• Your health is constantly changing
• Think of your health at any moment as a point
  along a continuum
• A health continuum shows that your health can
  be measured on a sliding scale with many degrees
  of health and wellness

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The Health Continuum

• A person with a balanced life is said to have a
  high degree of wellness, an overall state of
  well-being, or total health.

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Promoting your health

• The decisions that you make everyday have an
  impact on your health
• Doctors have identified habits that affect
  peoples overall health, happiness, and longevity
  or how they live

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Lifestyle Factors

• The habits that you have in your everyday life
  are called lifestyle factors, they are personal
  behaviors related to the way a person lives his
  or her life.
• Lifestyle factors determine your level of health,
  certain ones are linked to specific diseases,
  others promote good overall health

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Wellness and Prevention

• A key to your wellness is prevention or
  practicing health and safety habits to remain
  free of disease and injury

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The importance of Health Education

• Knowing how to become healthy and staying healthy
  should be a persons top priority
• Therefore health education or the providing of
  accurate health information to help people make
  healthy choices, is very important.

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The Nations Health Goals

• Everyone has health goals including our nation
• 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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Healthy People 2010

• They have established 2 main goals
• Increase the quality and years of healthy life
  for all Americans
• Remove health differences that result from
  factors such as gender, race, education,
  disability, and location

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Healthy People 2010

• In order to stay healthy you have to know how to
  evaluate your own health and where to get health
  information
• When evaluating health information it should be
  reliable, accurate, and current

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Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

• Lesson 2

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Your Health Triangle

• There are 3 main elements to your health
• Physical
• Mental/Emotional
• Social
• Otherwise known as your Health Triangle

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Your Health Triangle
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Physical

• Your physical side of your health triangle deals
  with how well your body functions.
• This side of the triangle deals with anything
  dealing with your body, such as substance abuse,
  fitness, nutrition, or any non-communicable
  disease

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Mental/Emotional

• This side of your health triangle deals with your
  feelings, how well you meet the demands of daily
  life, and your ability to process information.
• Other health categories that may fall under this
  side include suicide, mental disorders, and stress

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Social

• This side of the health triangle involves the way
  you get along with others. Your ability to make
  and keep friends, communicating, being able to
  show respect
• Other health categories on this side of the
  triangle may include, family relationships, peer
  relationships, public health

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Your Health Triangle

• Keeping your Triangle balanced is a big key.
• Each side of the health triangle is just as
  important as the other

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Influences on your health

• There are several things that can influence your
  overall health or well-being including
• Heredity
• Environment
• Media Technology
• Values
• Attitudes
• Behavior

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Heredity Environment

• Heredity refers to all the traits that were
  biologically passed onto you from your parents
• Environment is the sum of your surroundings they
  can be either physical or social

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Culture, Attitude Behavior

• Culture refers to the collective beliefs,
  customs, and behaviors of a group
• Attitude is the way you view situations. Your
  attitude greatly affects the choices you make
• Behavior refers to how you react or respond to
  certain situations

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Media Technology

• Media or various methods of communicating
  information can greatly have an affect on your
  health
• Technology advances also affect your health.
  Many technological advances in medicine have
  helped to prolong our lives

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Your Behavior and Reducing Health Risks

• Lesson 3

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Understanding Health Risks

• Risk Behaviors are actions that can potentially
  threaten your health or the health of others.
• The consequences of risk behaviors may add up
  over time these cumulative risks are related
  risks that increase in effect with each added risk

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Abstaining from risk behaviors

• Abstinence is avoiding harmful behaviors,
  including the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other
  drugs along with sexual activity