Achieving Wellness: Your Guide to Health and Longevity

1. Chapter 1 Lesson 1

2. Your Health and Wellness You’ll Learn in this lesson: • Relate the nation’s health goals and objectives in Healthy People 2010 to individual, family, and community health. • Develop evaluation criteria for health information • Discuss the importance of health literacy for achieving and maintaining good health Vocabulary: Health Wellness Prevention Health Education Healthy People 2010 Health Literacy

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

4. Health ContinuumHealth is dynamic or subject to change Look at figure 1.1 Page 5

5. Health is dynamic (ALWAYS CHANGES) • Injury Sickness- • Progression of Age-

6. Oldest Man/Women • Jeanne Calment-122 years 164 days, born 21 February1875, died August1997-Oldest person ever verified. French. • Shigechiyo Izumi-120 years 237 days, born 29 June1865, died 21 February1986-Oldest male ever verified. Japanese.

7. Wellness • Wellness- overall state of well being, or total health. • Achieving wellness requires an ongoing, lifelong commitment To physical, mental, and social health. “Wellness is based on making sound health decisions and practicing healthy behaviors.”

8. Promoting Health • Lifestyle factors, or the way a person lives effects health, happiness, and longevity of life. • Longevity- refers to how long a person lives.

9. 10 Guidelines to promote longevity of life. Getting 8-10hrs of sleep per night. Eat breakfast Eat nutritional foods Physically active for 30 minutes 3x per week. Maintaining a healthy weight.

10. Longevity Cont. 6) Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. 7) Abstain from sexual activity before marriage. 8) Manage stress 9) Maintain positive relationships 10) Practice safe behaviors

11. Wellness/Prevention • Prevention- is practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury. • Health Education- the providing of accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.

12. Healthy People 2010 • Healthy people 2010- is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention for improving the health of all people in the United States. Physical Activity  Overweight and Obesity  Tobacco Use  Substance Abuse  Responsible Sexual Behavior  Mental Health  Injury and Violence  Environmental Quality  Immunization  Access to Health Care 

13. Healthy People 2010 • Goals of HP2010 include: increase the quality of life and remove health differences that result in factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location. • Individuals, families, and communities.

14. http://healthypeople.gov/2020/about/default.aspx

15. Health Literacy • Health Literacy- refers to a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness.

17. Chapter 1 • Lesson 2

18. Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle You’ll Learn To: • Describe the importance of taking responsibility for establishing and implementing health maintenance for individuals of all ages • Explain how influences such as hereditary, environment, culture, media, and technology have impacted the health status of individuals, families, communities, and the world • Analyze the health messages delivered through media and technology. Vocabulary: Heredity Environment Peers Culture Media

19. Health Triangle

20. Physical Health • How well you body functions • Good physical health • Perform daily activities • Cope with everyday challenges and stress • Resist Diseases • Avoid injury

21. Being Physically Healthy Getting adequate sleep Eating nutritious meals Drinking enough water Being physically active on a regular basis

22. Mental/Emotional Health • Feelings about yourself • Demands of daily life • Ability to process information

23. Good Mental Health • In touch with your feelings • Can express your feelings in appropriate ways • Deal with life frustrations without getting overwhelmed • Don’t dwell on negative thoughts

24. Social Health • The way that you get along with others • Ability to make and keep friends • Communication • Respect

25. Influences on your Health • Heredity- refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents. • NO CONTROL

26. Environment • Environment- the sum of your surroundings. • Physical/social realm • Evansville vs. New York city (Air Pollution) • Peers- are people of the same age who share similar interests.

27. Culture • Culture- refers to the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group. • Attitude- The way that you view a situation, your attitude greatly affects the choices you make. • Media- the various methods of communicating information. • Technology- impacts the health status of individuals, families, communities, and the world.

28. Chapter 1 • Lesson 3

29. Your Behavior and reducing Health Risks You’ll Learn to: • Describe ways to promote health and reduce risks. • Associate risk-taking with consequences. • Analyze the importance of abstinence from sexual activity as the preferred choice of behavior in a relationship to all sexual activity for un married persons of school age. • Communicate the importance of practicing abstinence. Vocabulary: Risk Behaviors Cumulative risks Abstinence

30. Health Risks • Risk Behaviors- are actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others. • Cumulative Risks- are related risks that increase in effect with each added risk. • Repeated over time • More behaviors involved= more increased risks

31. Health Risks

32. Abstaining from Risk Behaviors • Abstinence- avoiding harmful behaviors including tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and sexual activity.

33. Teens who abstain from sexual activity…. • Never worry about pregnancy • Caring for a child • STD’s • Are free from emotional problems such as guilt, regret, and rejection.

34. USA/Africa Average life expectancy in Africa is 50. While in the USA the average life expectancy is around 80. WHY?