Your Health & Wellness Chapter 1 Lesson #1 pg 4-9

1. Your Health & WellnessChapter 1Lesson #1 pg 4-9 Today’s Lesson Objectives: Objective 1: Explain how the nation’s health goals relate to individual, family, and community health. Objective 2: Describe the criteria for evaluating health information. Objective 3: Understand the importance of health literacy for achieving and maintaining good health.

2. In-Class Assignment:Write your answers on your own paper • Define Health: • Define Wellness: • Describe in your own words the difference between health and wellness. • What lifestyle factors do you need to improve on??? • If you were to pick one lifestyle factor to improve on, what would you do in order to achieve it??

3. Health • A combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being. • Health is dynamic, meaning it is subject to constant change.

4. Think of your health at any moment as a point along a continuum spanning the complete spectrum of health.

5. Wellness • Is an overall state of well being, or total health

6. The decisions you make every day effect your health and wellness. • Positive lifestyle factors include: • Getting 8-10 hours of sleep each night • Starting each day with a healthy breakfast • Maintaining a healthy weight • Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other harmful drugs • Abstaining from risky sexual behaviors • Managing stress • Practicing safe behaviors in all other areas

7. Prevention • Practicing health and safety habits to remain free from disease and injury

8. Learning how to become and stay healthy should be a top priority. • Health Education provides accurate health information for people to use as a guide to make healthy choices

9. National Health Goals • Healthy People 2020 • A Nationwide plan to promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death • 1st goal: Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death • 2nd goal: Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups • 3rd goal: Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all • 4th goal: Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages Web site: http://www.healthypeople.gov/LHI/

10. As more individuals take charge of their own wellness, global health can improve • Individuals: play an active role in their own health through daily decisions • Families: shape the attitudes and beliefs that result in healthful individual behaviors • Communities: provide health services and ensure a safe environment

11. Health Literacy • A person’s ability to learn about and understand basic health information and services, and how to use these resources to promote his/her health and wellness • A health literate person knows how to access resources from home, school, and the community

12. In class activity… • In regards to the health spectrum, where are you right now? • Where do you want to be a month from now? • Where do you want to be a year from now? • Explain how being health literate can help you to achieve and maintain these health related goals.