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Striving For Personal Wellness

Striving For Personal Wellness. Making Healthy Choices and Decisions. What Determines Health?. Health Behavior Physical Environment Heredity Health-Care Services. Striving for Personal Wellness. Risky behavior can directly affect your health

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Striving For Personal Wellness

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  1. Striving For Personal Wellness Making Healthy Choices and Decisions

  2. What Determines Health? • Health Behavior • Physical Environment • Heredity • Health-Care Services

  3. Striving for Personal Wellness

  4. Risky behavior can directly affect your health The Wellness Continuum illustrates the relationship between health and risk behaviors The Decision Making Model can help you handle times of conflict Making Healthy Choices

  5. Understanding Risks • Risk is a degree of danger that goes along with a situation • Health risks are based on what has happened to a number of people in the recent past. Epidemiology is a study of factors that cause illnesses in an effort of determine their chances of occurring. • Responsibility to self and to others

  6. Making Decisions • Identify the problem: what is the cause for your problem? • Consider your options: What are your choices? Consider your values. • Evaluate the outcomes: What are possible consequences: positive and negative. • Decide and act: What do you choose to do? • Review your decision (the results): What can I learn from this experience?

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