Lesson 1 Taking Charge of Your Health

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Lesson 1 Taking Charge of Your Health

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Three Parts of Health

• Health is the condition of your body, mind,
  emotions and relationships.
• Three Parts of Health
• Physical Health
• Mental and Emotional Health
• Family and Social Health

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List 3 Healthful behaviors that you can do to
keep yourself healthy in each category.
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Three Parts of Health

• Risk Behaviors
• An action that threatens health increases the
  likelihood of illness, injury or premature death
  may harm the quality of the environment.

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Factors that Effect your Health Status

• Environment
• Living in a congested area exposes you to
  pollutants.
• Heredity
• Determines a persons likelihood of contracting
  certain diseases.
• Access To Health Care
• The availability of doctors in your area and
  whether or not you have health insurance.
• Random Events
• Ex Floods, tornados, car accidents, etc

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Being health literate

• Be knowledgeable about skills needed to take care
  of yourself!
• Where can you go to find good health information?