1. A Healthy You!

2. Learning Outcomes Define health and wellness
Chapter 1 A Healthy You!
Learning Outcomes
Define health and wellness
Explain how to strive for wellness
Describe the health concerns of
women and men from different
ethnic backgrounds
Describe the goals of the government
project Healthy People
Explain ways of thinking critically about
health-related information
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3. Take Charge of Your Health!
Become more aware of health risks
Keep informed
Practice prevention
Become a more knowledgeable consumer of health care services
Change your health-related behavior

4. Health & Wellness Defined
Soundness of body and mind; a state of vigor and vitality that permits a person to function physically, psychologically, and socially
Wellness:
A state of optimum health, as characterized by active efforts to maximize one’s physical health and well-being

5. Six Dimensions of Health
Physical: “soundness of body”
healthy physical functioning and the absence of disease
Emotional:
emotional well-being and ability to share one’s feelings
Social:
ability to relate effectively with other people
Spiritual:
connectedness with a higher order or a purpose beyond oneself
Intellectual:
ability to use one’s intellectual resources to meet challenges
Environmental:
relationship between humans and other organisms and their physical
environment

6. Six Dimensions of Health

7. Striving for Wellness Involves making changes in your lifestyle
and behavior that enhance your health and well-being and improve your quality of life
Changing and maintaining health behaviors depends on:
Predisposing Factors: (promote/hinder healthy changes)
beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, expectancies, values
Enabling Factors: (enable change)
skills or abilities, physical and mental capabilities, and the availability and accessibility of resources
Reinforcing Factors:
includes praise and support – including self-praise

8. Human Diversity & Health
Health status and life expectancy differs by race, ethnicity, and gender.
European Americans live longer than African Americans.
Females live longer than males.

9. Factors influencing differences in health status and life expectancy.
Socioeconomic status
Income, education
Access to health care
Environmental Factors
Stress, living conditions, violence
Genetic Factors
Tay-Sachs, sickle-cell anemia
Predispositions – CVD, Cancer, Diabetes
Cross–Cultural Factors
Diets, environment
Gender
Males – higher risk for heart disease
Women – higher risk for chronic conditions, depression

10. Healthy People 2020 Overarching Goals
The U.S. government’s Healthy People program has set goals and objectives to improve the health and quality of life of Americans since 1990 with the release of Healthy People 2000.
Healthy People 2020 Overarching Goals
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death;
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups;
Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all; and
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages [

11. Be a “Critical Thinker”
Think critically about health information by:
Being skeptical
Examining definitions
Recognizing that correlation is not causation
Considering the quality of evidence upon which conclusions are based
Not oversimplifying
Not overgeneralizing
For online health-related information, also make sure to:
Check out the credentials of the source
Look for citations
Beware of product claims