1. Self, Family and Community
For next class:
Read Supplement 6 and Chapter 5 (Nutrition)
For the textbook:
How to use the e-book:
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2. Learning objectives What is ‘health’? What is ‘wellness’?
Describe the ‘ecological model of health and wellness.
What are some personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors regarding health?
How do genes influence our health?
How might these factors influence health:
Age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economics
Describe 2 models describing how people make changes in their lives?
Think about why different communities have different average levels of health and wellness

3. What does it mean to be “healthy”? What does “wellness” mean?
Absence of disease
WHO definition (1947):
State of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing
Not just the absence of disease
Wellness:
Active process of adapting behaviors that can lead to improved health and satisfaction with life.

8. Age Matters

9. Gender matters

10. Ethnicity matters

11. Socio-economics matter

13. Next class… Read Supplement 6 and chapter 5
Think about your own nutrition and ways you could improve it.