1. TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR HEALTH
LESSON 1
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR HEALTH

2. Health status
– condition of person’s body, mind, emotions & relationships
10 factors that affect a person’s health status
Heredity, environment, random events, health care, behaviors & situations, relationships, decisions, resistance skills, risks & resilient.

3. Heredity
Passing of characteristics from biological parents to their children
Protective factor – increases the chance of a positive outcome
Risk factor – increases chance of a negative outcome

4. Environment Everything around a person.
Air you breathe, water you drink & place you live
May produce a positive protective factor or negative risk factor

5. Random Event
An event in which a person has little or no control over

6. Health Care
Professional medical and dental help that promotes a person’s health
The kind of health care and the way you use it affects your health status

7. Behaviors & Situations
Healthful behavior choice – promotes health, prevents injury, illness & premature death, improves the quality of the environment (Seat belts, exercising regularly, proper foods)
Risk behavior choice – threatens health, may cause injury, illness early death, destroys the environment (smoking, drugs)

8. Risk Behaviors Behaviors that result in unintentional injuries
Tobacco, alcohol, and/ or drug use
Poor diet choices & activity choices
Sexual risks of HIV & STD’s

9. 6 Risk Behaviors in Teens
Behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries
Tobacco use
Alcohol and drug use
Sexual behaviors resulting in HIV or STD’s
Diet choices that contribute to disease
Lack of physical activity

10. Relationships:
Healthy relationships are free of violence &/or drug misuse, promotes self-respect & encourages good health
Harmful relationships includes violence &/or drug misuse, lowers self-respect & interferes with health

11. Decisions: Your decisions you make affect your health status
Responsible decisions – promote health, protect safety, follows laws, self respect for you & others, & follows guidelines
Wrong decisions - opposite

12. Resistance Skills:
These are skills that help a person say “NO” to an action or to leave a situation.
Dealing with pressure from peers.
Responsible decisions when others are pressuring you to make a wrong decision.

13. Risk-Taking:
Risk- a chance that a person takes that has an unknown outcome
Calculated risk – chances taking after careful consideration of possible outcomes
Unnecessary risk – taking chances after weighing risks

14. Resiliency:
Ability to adjust, recover, bounce back and learn from difficult times
Able to make quick adjustments to difficult situations
You don’t let tough times interfere with your goals and dreams
Learn from mistakes

15. You Are Responsible for Your Health:
Quality of life – the degree in which a person lives life to the fullest capacity
Wellness – the quality of life that results from a person’s health status

16. Wellness Scale:
Scale that shows the ranges of the quality of life
Optimal to Premature Death
The more positive factors you have the greater your optimal wellness

17. Communication is effective Self directed learning
Health literate person is skilled in:
Communication is effective
Self directed learning
Able to problem solve
Responsible citizen

18. Communication – expressing ideas & beliefs concerning health knowledge
Self Directed Learning – gathering, keeping up to date and using health related information

19. Problem Solving – evaluating the facts, examining possible outcomes before making decisions
Responsible citizenship – behaving in ways to make home, school, community a better place

20. A person who promotes health
Health Advocate
A person who promotes health