2. Myth or Fact? A physically fit person is perfectly healthy.
Heart disease and cancer just run in some families; there’s nothing that can prevent it.
Because of the advances in medicine and technology, today’s teens are much healthier than teens were in the 20th century.

3. Components of Health
Physical Health: Physical characteristics and the way your body functions.
Social Health: Relationship w/ other people.
Spiritual Health: Purpose of life; may involve a religion
Mental Health: Coping w/ the daily demands of life; recognize reality.
Emotional Health: Expressing your feelings in an appropriate way.

4. Components of Health WELLNESS
Physical Health: Physical characteristics and the way your body functions.
Social Health: Relationship w/ other people.
Spiritual Health: Purpose of life; may involve a religion
Mental Health: Coping w/ the daily demands of life; recognize reality.
Emotional Health: Expressing your feelings in an appropriate way.
WELLNESS

5. Health Definitions
Health: The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
Wellness: Optimal health in each of the five areas of health.
Health-Illness Continuum: Your overall health can be plotted on the health-illness continuum.
Each of the five aspects of health can be plotted on the continuum.
Self-Esteem: Feeling good about yourself and your abilities.
To achieve wellness, you must feel good about yourself.

7. Health Triangle

8. Influences On Your Health
1. Health knowledge
2. Access a person has to health information
3. Behaviors that a person practices
4. The way a person responds to influences on health; culture, media, technology
5. Communication skills; resistance skills; conflict resolution
6. Decisions a person makes
7. A person’s health advocacy (influence on others)
8. Heredity
9. Quality of the environment in which a person lives
10. Random events in a person’s life and how that person deals with risks

9. Advertisements What are things or people that influence you?
How do you evaluate advertisements?

10. Health Concerns in the United States
Today, lifestyle factors are the major threat to teen health.
Top two causes of death in the USA are heart disease and cancer.
Top three underlying causes of death in the USA for one year are:
1. Tobacco Use.
2. Poor Diet/Inactivity.
3. Alcohol and other drugs.

11. You Decide Your Health! Unintentional Injuries:
Injuries that are not the result of purposeful acts.
Not considered accidents because at least 85% of them could have been prevented.
Leading Causes of Death (ages 15-24):
1. Unintentional Injuries.
2. Homicide.
3. Suicide.
4. Cancer.
5. Heart Disease
6. HIV/AIDS

12. Health Skills Interpersonal Communication Refusal skills
Interacting between two or more people
Use “I” messages
Pay attention to how you say it
Be a good listener
Refusal skills
Say “No” firmly- calm and clear
Explain why
Suggest alternatives
Use appropriate alternatives
Use appropriate body language
Leave if necessary

13. Conflict Resolution Skills
Types of conflicts:
Intrapersonal
Occurs within a person
Interpersonal
Occurs between two or more people
Intragroup
A difference between people belonging to the same group
Intergroup
Disagreement between two or more groups of people
Conflict Resolution Skills
The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving
Calm down and think through the situation
Speak calmly and listen
Ask questions when appropriate
Work to resolve problem peacefully

14. Prejudicial Behavior What is discrimination? Prejudice? Stereotype?
Distinguish between things or people by noticing or emphasizing differences
Prejudice?
An adverse judgment formed without looking at the facts
Stereotype?
A prejudiced attitude that assigns a specific quality or characteristic to all people who belong to a particular group

15. How to Avoid Prejudicial Behavior
Show RESPECT for ALL people
Challenge stereotypes
Create synergy (positive outcome from cooperation)
Show empathy (share other persons feelings or emotions)
Avoid prejudicial comments
Learn about people that are different! HOW?

16. Goal Setting Benefits? Short-Term Long-Term
You plan to achieve in near future
Long-Term
You plan to achieve after a period of time
How do you go about doing this?

17. The “Quality of your Life” is based on the decisions you make daily.
The Decision Making Model:
1. State the Problem.
2. List the Options.
3. Imagine the Benefits and Consequences.
4. Consider your Values.
5. Weigh the Options and Decide.
6. Act.
7. Evaluate the Results.