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Promoting Health and Wellness

2. Health eSpotlight Video
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Health eSpotlight Video
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3. LESSON 4 Promoting Health and Wellness
Staying healthy takes knowledge, a plan, and practicing healthful behaviors.
BIG IDEA
New Vocabulary
health education
health disparities
Healthy People
health literacy
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4. The Importance of Health Education
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The Importance of Health Education
Main Idea
Individual, family, community, and national health require planning and responsible behavior on everyone’s part.
Educating the public is the key to creating a healthier nation.
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5. The Importance of Health Education
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The Importance of Health Education
Health education can empower people to live healthfully and improve their quality of life.
New Vocabulary
health education
Includes providing accurate health information and teaching health skills to help people make healthy decisions.
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6. The Nation’s Health Goals
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The Nation’s Health Goals
The Federal government has established national health goals and objectives through Healthy People.
New Vocabulary
Healthy People
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.
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7. The Nation’s Health Goals
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The Nation’s Health Goals
One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to reduce the overweight and obesity rates in the United States.
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8. The Nation’s Health Goals
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The Nation’s Health Goals
One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to reduce the overweight and obesity rates in the United States.
The nation has set a goal of reducing these percentages to five percent of children and adolescents.
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9. Goals of Healthy People
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Goals of Healthy People
One goal of Healthy People 2020 is to remove health disparities that result from factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location.
New Vocabulary
health disparities
Differences in health outcomes among groups.
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10. Goals of Healthy People
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Goals of Healthy People
The health goals of Healthy People 2020 include:
promoting the best possible health in order to end preventable death, illness, injury, and disability. 1
eliminating health disparities. 2
making wellness a way of life and enhance quality of life for individuals and communities. 3
promoting healthy places and environments. 4
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11. Becoming Health Literate
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Becoming Health Literate
Main Idea
A health-literate person knows how to find and use reliable health information.
Every day people all around the world must make important decisions that affect their health.
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12. Becoming Health Literate
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Becoming Health Literate
To become an informed individual who can make sound health decisions, one must know how to:
find health information
decide if the information is correct
assess the risks and benefits of treatment
figure out how much medicine to take
understand test results
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13. LESSON 4 Promoting Health and Wellness
What You Can Do
To improve your knowledge and take steps to improve your wellness, you need to develop health literacy.
New Vocabulary
health literacy
A person’s capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services, and to use these resources to promote one’s health and wellness.
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14. Qualities of a Health-Literate Individual
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A health literate individual displays the following qualities:
critical thinker and problem solver
responsible, productive citizen
Qualities of a Health-Literate Individual
self-directed learner
effective communicator
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15. After You Read 1. Why is health education important?
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Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
1. Why is health education important?
Health education provides information about health so people can make responsible health-related decisions. It helps people maintain a high quality of life and can reduce national health-care costs.
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16. After You Read 2. What are health disparities?
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After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
2. What are health disparities?
Health disparities are differences in health outcomes among groups.
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17. After You Read List five criteria that are needed for
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After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List five criteria that are needed for
an individual to make sound health
decisions.
Know where to find health information; decide
if information is correct; figure out the risks and benefits of treatment; figure out when and
how to take medications safely; understand
test results.
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