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Health Styles

Health Styles. What makes someone healthy?. Draw a picture of a healthy person. What are the characteristics that makes someone healthy?. Health: Yesterday and Today. World Health Organization-1947

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Health Styles

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  1. Health Styles

  2. What makes someone healthy? Draw a picture of a healthy person. What are the characteristics that makes someone healthy?

  3. Health: Yesterday and Today • World Health Organization-1947 • “Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or infirmity.” • This was the first time health meant more than an absence of illness

  4. Defining Health and Wellness • Health: a dynamic, ever-changing process of achieving individual potential in each of the following dimensions: • Physical • Intellectual • Emotional • Social • Spiritual • Environmental • Wellness: the achievement of the highest level of health in each dimension.

  5. The 6 dimensions of Health • Physical • Includes body functioning, physical fitness, Activities of Daily Living (ADL) • Intellectual • Ability to think clearly, reason objectively • Emotional • Self-efficacy and self-esteem

  6. The 6 dimensions of Health • Social • Ability to have satisfying relationships • Spiritual • Feeling as if part of a greater spectrum of existence • Environmental • Appreciation of the external environment and one’s role in caring for it

  7. Group activity • 6 groups • Each group assigned a dimension of health • Your task is to list the behaviors and/or characteristics of that dimension • 5 minutes to complete • Groups will then share with class

  8. How do you take care of your car? Pick one…. • Drive it ‘til it breaks • Maintenance • True car lover

  9. Cars and health What are the similarities between how you take care of your car and how you take care of your health?

  10. Health Styles: Traditional Approach Preventative Approach Wellness Approach Car Care Styles: Drive it ‘til it breaks Maintenance True car-lover Similarities between health and cars

  11. The Traditional Approach (Drive it till it breaks) Characteristics Include: • Concerned only when signs/symptoms of illness or disease exist • Relies on physician for cure or treatment • Evolved from the Communicable Disease Era • Does not work well on contemporary problems such as heart disease, cancer, or accidents

  12. The Preventative Approach (Preventative Maintenance) Characteristics Include: • focuses on disease to determine risk factors • Works to reduce risk factors to eliminate or minimize potential for disease • Focus is more negative or disease-oriented, with several "do nots" and "should nots" to avoid negative consequences

  13. The Wellness Approach (True Car Lover) Characteristics Include: • Attempts to move the person from a neutral to a higher level of health • Focuses on signs of health rather than on signs of illness or disease • Indicates the key to wellness is self-responsibility • Educates towards a balance in all health domains • Establishes a positive approach

  14. Health Characteristics • Realistic sense of self, accepts personal limitations • Ability to laugh, cry, feel • Maintains and supports friendships • A balance in all areas of life • Respect for self and others • Can you think of others?

  15. Group Share Determine your health style. Sit with people with the same health style as you. What are the characteristics of your health style? What is the relationship between the dimensions of health and your health style?

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