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Understanding the Importance of Lifestyle Factors in Promoting Good Health

This lesson explores how lifestyle factors impact health, emphasizing the importance of good health habits. Topics include wellness, prevention, health literacy, and the Healthy People 2010 initiative.

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Understanding the Importance of Lifestyle Factors in Promoting Good Health

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  1. Lifestyle factors help determine a person’s level of health. Your Health and Wellness Establishing a regular sleep schedule can help you get enough sleep each night. Such lifestyle factors promote good health.

  2. In this lesson, you will learn to: • Explain how the nation’s health goals relate to individual, family, and community health • Describe the criteria for evaluating health information • Understand the importance of health literacy for achieving • and maintaining good health Lesson Objectives

  3. What Is Good Health? Goodhealthis much more than just the absence of disease. Instead, achieving good health means striving to be the best you can be at any given time. The Importance of Good Health

  4. The Health Continuum The Importance of Good Health

  5. Health Along the Continuum • Health is dynamic. • The health continuum spans the complete spectrum of health from chronic disease and premature death to a high level of health. • Along the continuum are many points where your health could be located at any given time. • Changes along the continuum may occur suddenly or gradually. The Importance of Good Health

  6. Wellness • A person with a balanced life has a high degree of wellness. • Achieving wellness requires you to: • Make decisions and practice behaviors based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes. • Have an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical, mental/emotional, and social health. The Importance of Good Health

  7. Lifestyle Factors Experts have identified habits that affect people’s overall health, happiness, and longevity, or how long they live. These habits, or lifestyle factors, are personal behaviors related to the way a person lives. The Importance of Good Health • Lifestyle factors that promote good health include: • Getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night. • Starting each day with a healthy breakfast. • Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

  8. More Lifestyle Factors • Being physically active for at least 20 minutes a day, three or more days a week • Maintaining a healthy weight • Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs • Abstaining from sexual activity before marriage • Managing stress • Maintaining positive relationships • Practicing safe behaviors to prevent injuries Promoting Your Health

  9. Wellness and Prevention A key to your wellness isprevention. Promoting Your Health

  10. The Importance of Health Education • Health is critical to quality of life. • The goal ofhealth educationis to provide health information to help people make healthy choices. Promoting Your Health

  11. The Nation’s Health Goals Healthy People 2010is a plan that is revised every 10 years to promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death. Promoting Your Health

  12. Goals of Healthy People 2010 • Individuals can take an active role in their own health. • Families can shape their attitudes and beliefs that results in healthful behaviors. • Communities can provide health services and offer behavior-changing classes. Promoting Your Health

  13. Becoming Health Literate • A health-literateindividual needs to be: • A critical thinker and problem solver. • A responsible, productive citizen. • A self-directed learner. • An effective communicator. Promoting Your Health

  14. Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q._________ is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. • 1. Healthy People 2010 • 2. Health education • 3. Health literacy • 4. Health

  15. A.1.Healthy People 2010 Healthy People 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. Quick Review - Answer Click Next to attempt another question.

  16. Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q._________ is 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. • 1. Health education • 2. Prevention • 3. Health literacy • 4. Wellness

  17. A.3. Health literacy Health literacy is 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. Quick Review - Answer Click Next to attempt another question.

  18. Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q.Health education involves providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices. True False

  19. A.True.Health education involves providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices. Quick Review - Answer Click Next to attempt another question.

  20. Quick Review Choose the appropriate option. Q.Health literacy refers to a person’s ability to read and understand basic health information. True False

  21. A.False.Health literacy is a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and then use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness. Quick Review - Answer Click Next to attempt another question.

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  23. A.Correct!Healthy People 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. Quick Review - Answer Click Next to attempt another question.

  24. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

  25. A.Correct!Health literacy is 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. Quick Review - Answer Click Next to attempt another question.

  26. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

  27. What Is Good Health? Goodhealthis much more than just the absence of disease. Instead, achieving good health means striving to be the best you can be at any given time. Health is the combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being. The Importance of Good Health

  28. Wellness • A person with a balanced life has a high degree of wellness. • Achieving wellness requires you to: • Make decisions and practice behaviors based on sound health knowledge and healthful attitudes. • Have an ongoing, lifelong commitment to physical, mental/emotional, and social health. Wellness is an overall state of well-being, or total health. The Importance of Good Health

  29. Wellness and Prevention A key to your wellness isprevention. Promoting Your Health Prevention is practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.

  30. The Importance of Health Education • Health is critical to quality of life. • The goal ofhealth educationis to provide health information to help people make healthy. Promoting Your Health Health education involves providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices.

  31. The Nation’s Health Goals Healthy People 2010is a plan that is revised every 10 years to promote health and prevent illness, disability, and early death. Healthy People 2010 is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States. Promoting Your Health

  32. Becoming Health Literate • A health-literateindividual needs to be: • A critical thinker and problem solver. • A responsible, productive citizen. • A self-directed learner. • An effective communicator. 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. Promoting Your Health

  33. Quick Review - Answer A.Correct!Health education involves providing accurate health information to help people make healthy choices. Click Next to attempt another question.

  34. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

  35. Quick Review - Answer A.Correct! Health literacy is a person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and then use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness. Click Next to attempt another question.

  36. Quick Review - Answer You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again, or click Next to view the correct answer.

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