Leading a Healthy Life

1. Leading a Healthy Life Objective Ch. 1: Identify and define the major health issues we face today and the risks factors involved in these issues. Define the 5 dimensions of health and how behavior affects each component.

2. Health Issues:What’s Your IQ? • Most deaths are caused by our behavior. • If you have a history of heart disease in your family, there is nothing you can do. • The leading cause of death among teens is car accidents. • Smoking in the single leading preventable cause of death in the US. • If you are not physically sick, then you are healthy.

3. Chapter 1: Vocabulary Health: The state of well being in which all the components of health are in balance. Physical Mental Emotional Social Spiritual Wellness: The achievement of a person‘s optimal wellness in all 5 components.

4. 5 Components of Health • Physical Health- Your physical characteristics and the way your body functions • Mental health- The ability to recognize reality and cope with the demands of life • Emotional health- Expressing feelings in an appropriate way • Social Health- Interactions with people to build satisfying relationships • Spiritual Health- Maintaining harmonious relationships with other living things and having spiritual direction and purpose

5. Health-Illness Continuum • Your overall health can be illustrated by a plot on the health-illness continuum. Your health status on the continuum depends on how wellyou attend to each of the five areas that make up your total health picture

6. Warm Up Day 2/Lesson • What is risky behavior or a risk factor when it comes to health behaviors? • Describe the difference between a controllable riskfactor and an uncontrollable risk factor? Give some examples. • What decisions have you made over the last couple of days that have affected your health? (+ or -) Explain.

7. Influences on Your Wellness • Hereditary: the traits you inherit from your parents Risk factors…focus on the controllable • Social: your relationships you have with others Negative peer pressure; parents talking out problems-not yelling • Cultural: Culture is the values, beliefs, and practices shared by people of the same background.

8. Risk FactorsControllable vs. Uncontrollable • Controllable Factors- behaviors or actions you can choose to do or not do. • Uncontrollable Factors- things you can not change… • Heredity • Gender • Race • Age

9. Ways to Take Charge • Health Literacy: is the knowledge of health info needed to make good decisions • Lifestyle: behavioral changes; put your knowledge into action #1 factor that controls a person level of wellness…Choices/decisionstheymake People don’t always behave in a way that shows they know what is healthy! • ATTITUDE

10. Self-esteem and social support • Self-esteem- Feeling good about yourself and your abilities • Social Support- Deriving positive feelings from sharing life situations with others

11. Ch. 1.2- Health concerns in the U.S. • Communicable disease: A disease that is passed from person to person by an organism • Health concerns for teens • Early 1900’s vs. today • 1900’s- Communicable diseases • Today- Lifestyle factors • Your choices and behaviors are part of your lifestyle and the development of habits (both good & bad) • Therefore…CHOICES #1 in what your health will be like!

12. Health – Then & Now • Crisis Health- not taking action about your health until something happens… illness or injury then seeking medical help • Preventative Health- taking action to maintain a high level of wellness so there is little risk of illness/injury. Prevention: eating right, stress management exercise, adequate sleep, support

13. Teen Health Issues O overall causes of death

14. Teen Health Issues • One in five teens in the U.S. has at least one serious health problem • Each year 3 million teens are infected with a STD

15. Teens at risk • Each action you take has a consequence • Some actions have greater risk than others -driving drunk, talking on cell, etc. • Teen Health Statistics on pg. 12

16. Causes of death in the U.S. today 33% heart disease 23.9% cancer 18.2% other causes 6.6% stroke 4.3% accidents 4.2% COPD 3.5% Pneumonia and influenza 2.3% diabetes 1.5% HIV infection 1.4% Suicide 1.2% Homicide Underlying causes of death in the U.S. in one year Tobacco use 400,000 Poor diet/inactivity 300,000 Alcohol & other drugs 120,000 Microbial agents 90,000 Toxic agents 60,000 Firearms 35,000 Sexual behavior 30,000 Motor vehicles 25,000 National Health Risks

17. National Health Risks • Most of the premature deaths in the U.S. can be prevented. • If people would exercise regularly, eat properly, have periodic medical exams, avoid the use of tobacco, and manage stress, more premature deaths could be avoided

18. Developing Life Skills • Health professionals and medical professionals have now switched to prevention as their guiding principle to achieving wellness • Health Risks Survey is one way to help with prevention

19. Continuous Health Assessments “Health knowledge is useless without positive health behavior. You must put what you know into Action for it toWork!”

20. "Don't be afraid to be great!" Santonio Holmes #10 WR - Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl Champions XLIII

21. Chapter 2Making Responsible Decisions

22. Decisions and your health • Responsible decision making is an important part of health; the choices you make give you a great deal of control over your own health. • Sometimes the choices you make affect your health immediately (short-term consequences). Other times the consequences are not seen until many years later (long-term consequences).

23. Short-term consequences of health decisions and leading causes of death among people ages 15-24 Unintentional injuries- injuries that are not the result of purposeful acts ~14,000 Homicide ~8,000 Suicide ~4,500 Cancer ~2,000 Heart Disease ~1,000 HIV/AIDS ~500 Long-term consequences of health decisions and leading causes of death among people ages 55-64 Cancer ~90,000 Heart disease ~70,000 COPD ~10,000 Stroke ~10,000 Diabetes ~8,000 Unintentional Injuries ~7,000 Each of these is often the result of choices made early in life Short-term vs long-term consequences

24. Vocabulary • Quality of life- The degree to which a person lives life to its fullest capacity with enjoyment and reward. • Unintentional injuries- Injuries that are not the result of purposeful acts.

25. 2.2 How to make a responsible decision Decision-Making Model A series of steps that helps a person make a responsible decision. • Step 1. State the Problem • Step 2. List the options • List all available options to consider • Try talking to someone whose opinion you trust, but don’t be persuaded by them to do something that isn’t good for you.

26. Decision-Making Model cont. • Step 3. Imagine the benefits and consequences • Take some time and carefully think through the benefits and negative consequences of each of your options that you listed in step 2 • Step 4. Consider your values • Values- a person’s strong beliefs and ideals • Your values allow you to choose between good and bad, and between right and wrong. Your values show the kind of most about. • person you are and what you care

27. Decision-Making Model cont. • Step 4. Consider your values cont., • A person’s values develop over time and are influenced by the teachings of family, culture, and religious and spiritual leaders • Each person develops his or her own value system, based on individual life experiences. It’s important to realize that not everyone will share your values. • Universal Values: • Values that seem to be important to people from many backgrounds and cultures. • Honesty, trustworthiness, responsibility to oneselfand others, self-control, and social justice *respect

28. Decision-Making Model cont. • Step 5. Weigh the options and decide • Carefully examine the possible benefits and negative consequences of each option • Step 6. Act • Step 7. Evaluate the results