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Health Skills Handbook

Health Skills Handbook. Teen Health (Nevada Edition) Pages HSH-2 through HSH21. Mr. McCarthy Rogich MS. This Set of Lessons Will Cover:. Part 1 : Health and Wellness (HSH- 2, 3 & 4) Part 2 : Health Influences, Risks, and Skills (HSH- 5 through 14)

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Health Skills Handbook

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  1. HealthSkillsHandbook TeenHealth(Nevada Edition)Pages HSH-2 through HSH21 Mr. McCarthy Rogich MS

  2. This Set of Lessons Will Cover: • Part 1: Health and Wellness (HSH- 2, 3 & 4) • Part 2: Health Influences, Risks, and Skills (HSH- 5 through 14) • Part 3: Decision Making (HSH- 15 & 16) • Part 4: Goal Setting (HSH- 17)

  3. Health Skills HandbookPart 2Pages HSH-5 through HSH-14 Health Influences, Risks, and Skills

  4. Lots of Things Influence Your Health Your Knowledge Your Environment Heredity Personal likes and dislikes Attitudes and Emotions Family and Culture Your Health Friends and Peers Media and technology Behavior and Lifestyle School

  5. Let’s look at a few definitions of big influences on your health:

  6. 1. HEREDITY • The passing of traits from parents to their biological children • Not just eye color, hair color, and skin color

  7. 1. HEREDITY • Parents can pass both positive and negative health-related traits to their children • Genes are the basic units of heredity

  8. 2. ENVIRONMENT • All the living and non-living things around you • Your home, school, the land, and people around you make up your environment

  9. 2. ENVIRONMENT • Your environment has a HUGE impact and influence on your health • Can you control all of the people and things in your environment?

  10. 3. PEERS • People close to you in age who are a lot like you • Peers can greatly influence our attitudes our behavior, and our choices

  11. 3. PEERS • Peers can influence us in good ways and in bad ways • How do your peers influence YOUR choices?

  12. 4. CULTURAL BACKGROUND: • Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people • Our nation is a “melting pot” of cultural backgrounds

  13. 4. CULTURAL BACKGROUND: Cultural background influences your family’s language, food choices, holidays, religion, and free time activities

  14. 5. MEDIA • Various methods of communicating information • This includes: TV, Internet, Phones, Radio, Magazines, Billboards

  15. 5. MEDIA • Which forms of media influence YOU the most?

  16. Now let’s look at some definitions which show how your behavior and your health are related

  17. 6. Lifestyle Factors: • Behaviors and habits that help determine a person’s level of health • Lifestyle factors can be either positive or negative

  18. 6. Lifestyle Factors: • Lifestyle involves habits: things we do repeatedly and often • Lifestyle involves choices we make continually over a long period of time

  19. 7. Sedentary Lifestyle: • A way of life that involves little physical activity or exercise • A sedentary lifestyle increases your risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and high blood pressure

  20. 7. Sedentary Lifestyle: • Why is a sedentary lifestyle more common in today’s modern world than in the past?

  21. Do any of these causes of death involve Sedentary Lifestyle? LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE US: • Heart Disease approx 600,000 deaths • Cancer 575,000 • Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases (Lungs) 138,000 • Stroke 130,000 • Accidents 118,000 • Alzheimer's Disease 83,000 • Diabetes 69,000 • Kidney Disease 51,000 • Influenza and Pneumonia 50,000 • Suicide 38,000

  22. 8. Attitude: • Your feelings and beliefs • Your attitude has a big influence on your choices and overall health

  23. 8. Attitude: • If you have a good attitude, you will probably have much more positive relationships and have a more happy, more successful, and healthy life

  24. 8. Attitude: • If you have a bad attitude, you will probably have more negative, destructive relationships and have a less happy, less successful, less productive life

  25. 9. Risk: • Chance or possibility of something happening • The choices you make can either increase or decrease the risk of something happening to you

  26. 9. Risk: • For example: wearing sun screen decreases your risk of a sunburn • Example 2: high blood pressure increases your risk of heart attack and stroke

  27. 9. Risk: • You need to avoid things that put your health at risk.

  28. 10. Cumulative Risks: • When one risk factor added to another to increase danger • One risk is bad … many risks added together can create a really risky situation!

  29. 10. Cumulative Risks: • For example, driving drunk is bad enough • But driving drunk, combined with speeding, driving in the dark of night, and not wearing a seat belt, makes it a lot more risky!

  30. 10. Cumulative Risks: • Another example: being overweight has health risks • But if you are overweight, combined with not exercising, having Diabetes, and a family history of Heart Disease … is bad news!

  31. 11. PREVENTION: • Taking steps to avoid something • Thinking about the consequences of your actions before you act

  32. 11. PREVENTION: • Watch out for dangers • You show self-control • A way of reducing risks

  33. 12. Abstinence: • A deliberate decision to avoid a high risk behavior • “Abstaining” from something means not doing it

  34. 12. Abstinence: • For example, if you “abstain” from cigarettes, it means you do not smoke cigarettes • Example 2: Abstinence from sex means you do not have sex

  35. 12. Abstinence: Abstinence is a special form of prevention

  36. The following definitions involve Health Skills

  37. 13. Health Skills: • Skills that help you become and stay healthy • The Health Triangle Mental & Emotional Physical Social

  38. 13. Health Skills: Just like you learn math, reading, or science skills, you also learn health-related skills you use your entire life

  39. 13. Health Skills: • See page HSH-10 for a list of Health Skills

  40. 14. Stress: • The body’s response to real or imagined danger • Learning how to manage stress is an important life skill

  41. 14. Stress: Stress causes your blood pressure to rise, heart rate to speed up, indigestion, and lack of emotional control

  42. 14. Stress: Unmanaged stress can lead to a variety of health problems

  43. WHAT STESSES YOU OUT?

  44. 15. RELIABLE: • Trustworthy and dependable • Your sources of information should be reliable

  45. 15. RELIABLE: The internet and friends are not always reliable Unreliable information can lead to very poor decisions

  46. 16. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: • The exchange of information through the use of words and actions • Our relationships with others depend on good communication skills

  47. 16. COMMUNICATION SKILLS: • Telling others how you feel • Listening to others and understanding how they feel • Both verbal and non-verbal

  48. 17. REFUSAL SKILLS: • Skills that help you to say NO effectively • Saying “No” is an important communication skill

  49. 17. REFUSAL SKILLS: You need to say no to things that are wrong or things you are not comfortable doing

  50. 17. REFUSAL SKILLS: • Sometimes you need to say “No” to stay healthy and avoid risks

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