1. Analyzing your personal health notes Raft Personal Life Story
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2. Analyzing your Personal Health and Wellness

3. What makes you a healthy person?
How do your personal behaviors predict long and short term benefits and harmful consequences of behaviors?

4. Health and Wellness Continuum
Optimal Health – A state of excellent health and wellness in all areas of your life.
Physical, emotional, intellectual and social dimensions of health interact with and affect each other
Premature Death, Low Level of Health
Optimal High Level of Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness Continuum

5. Effects on Your Health and Wellness Continuum
Positive
Quit smoking
Eat a balanced Diet
Exercise
Get involved in activities
Visit the doctor
Negative
Illness
Injuries
Poor behavioral choices
Texting while driving
Inability to manage stress

6. Being a health consumer.
Knowledge is the first step towards a healthy lifestyle. Being a consumer who is health literate and knowledgeable will have you make informed choices and purchases. It will also help you access health services when needed.

7. Accessing Valid Information
Where can you go for sources of good health and how can they help you?
Source
Services Provided?
Family Doctor?
Specialist
Dentist
Psychiatrist or Psychologist
Hospital versus Health Clinic

8. Important Steps in Accessing Valid Information
Read the labels
Ingredients and side effects
Pay Attention to the source
Hospital
US government
Nonprofit health care organization
Medical and science journal
Universities
Compare different resources on the same topic
Check other websites and articles. Do they agree?
Ask yourself if the advice given makes sense

9. Accessing Valid Information For Asthma
asthma: a disease of the lungs that makes breathing difficult allergy: a physical reaction to a substance, such as swelling, itching, or coughing, that most people do not experience when they are exposed to that substance chronic illness: a sickness or disease that lasts a long time and cannot be cured inflammation: a redness or swelling caused by an injury, an infection, or an irritation inhaler: a device used to breathe in medicine and send it directly to the lungs respiratory system: the body system used in breathing, which includes the nose, mouth, trachea, lungs, and other organs symptom: a sign of a disease or condition, such as a cough or a fever trigger: something that sets off a process or a reaction

10. Journal Reflection
Suppose you had a serious medical problem. Why would relying on the internet as your only source of information not be a good idea? Where else could you go for information?