1. Wellness and Decision-Making Lesson 3
Five Areas of Wellness
Wellness and Decision-Making
Lesson 3

2. Review: What Is Wellness?
The quality of life that results from a person’s health status

3. Five Areas of Wellness Physical
Personal choice to maintain health (self-care)
Improve health, prevent disease, manage conditions, and restore health
Examples:
Maintain physical fitness and good health
Using self-medications to treat and prevent illness
Manage health after tertiary health care

4. Five Areas of Wellness Mental/Emotional
An individual’s emotional and psychological well-being
Feeling capable and competent
Able to handle normal levels of stress
Maintain satisfying relationships
Lead independent life
Resilient

5. Five Areas of Wellness Social
The social conditions in which a person lives
Income and social status
Social support networks
Education and health literacy
Employment/Working conditions
Social environments
Physical environments
Personal health practices and coping skills
Healthy child development
Heredity
Health services
Gender
Culture

6. Five Areas of Wellness Spirituality A belief in another higher spirit
A sense of connection to a much greater whole
Based on personal experience, culture, religious beliefs and views