1. Chapter 1: Understanding Health and Wellness
Lesson 1: Your total health
Lesson 2: what affects your health
Lesson 3: health risks and your
behaviors
Lesson 4: Promoting health and
wellness

2. What thoughts come to mind when you see these pictures?

3. Lesson 1: your total health
Ch. 1, Lesson 1, p. 6-10
Lesson 1: your total health
Write a response in a complete sentence to each of the following questions:
What is health?
Why would you want to be healthy?
Who is most responsible for your health?
* Share your responses with a classmate!
BIG IDEA! Being in the best of health throughout your life means making healthy choices and practicing healthful behaviors.
What are some everyday decisions teens face that can affect their health?
THINK
ABOUT
IT!

4. Ch. 1 Lesson 1, p. 6-8
Health: “the combination of physical, mental /emotional, and social well-being.”
PHYSICAL HEALTH
How well your body functions
Having enough energy to perform daily activities
Can physically deal with everyday stresses
Avoiding illness and injury to body
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
HEALTH
Your feelings and thoughts
How you feel about yourself
Your ability to meet demands/stress of daily life
How you cope with problems in your life
NOTE: Mental/emotional health also includes spiritual health – feeling you have meaning, purpose in life, having sense of morals and values
SOCIAL HEALTH
Quality of your relationships in your social network (family, friends, teachers, others in community)
Ability to get along with others
Ability to make and maintain healthy relationships with others
Ability to share thoughts, feelings with others

5. KEEPING YOUR HEALTH IN BALANCE
Ch. 1 Lesson 1, p. 9-10
KEEPING YOUR HEALTH IN BALANCE
Maintaining wellness means
Keeping a balance among the three components of health.
Ignoring any of the three components affects your total health – your level of wellness!
Wellness: “An overall state of well-being or total health.”
Where is your
level of health
on the illness-wellness
continuum?
QUESTION: What behaviors can you change (or maintain) to improve your level of wellness (or maintain it) ?

6. Leading causes of death in the u.s. * all ages combined
Before the 1900S
Today
Infections
Infectious diseases
1st Cardiovascular disease 2nd Cancer 3rd Stroke

7. Why infections and infectious diseases are no longer the leading causes of death – in the united states
Antibiotics
Vaccines
Improved living conditions
Overall better health

8. Leading causes of death for teens ages 15-19
1st Accidents (accidental drug overdose, auto accidents) 2nd Suicide 3rd Homicide (murder)

9. How long will you live?
Life Expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in a given country would live if their mortality (death) rates at each age were to remain constant in the future. (In other words, the life expectancy for a particular infant born each year changes due to the conditions at that time).

10. Lesson 2: what affects your health?
Ch. 1 Lesson 2, p
Lesson 2: what affects your health?
Write a response in a complete sentence to the following questions:
What are factors or circumstances in your life that may affect your health and life expectancy?
What are some ways that a person’s surroundings can influence his or her health?
Share your responses with a classmate!
Main Idea: You can take control of your health by understanding how heredity, environment, attitude, behavior, media and technology can all influence it.

11. Influences on your health
Ch. 1, Lesson 2, p
Influences on your health
Certain factors can influence how you live.
FACT: IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE HEALTHY DECISIONS AND TAKE ACTIONS TO ENSURE YOUR WELL-BEING.
Heredity – biological traits passed on to you from parents Environment – physical surroundings, including people and culture Attitude – way you view situations, information Behavior – choices you make in life Media – various methods for communicating information Technology – a method of delivering media content through radio, TV and Internet
Question: Which of these influences on your health can you control?

12. Lesson 3: Health Risks and your behavior
Ch. 1, Lesson 3, p
Lesson 3: Health Risks and your behavior
Risk behaviors - actions that can potentially threaten your health or health of others.
Six risk behaviors that can lead to heart disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses later in life:
1. Tobacco use 4. Alcohol and other drug use
2. Unhealthy diet 5. Unprotected sex
3. Lack of exercise 6. Behaviors contributing to injury/violence
Controllable risk behaviors – actions that a person can do something about
Examples: Wearing a seatbelt, smoking, having sex, being kind to peers
Uncontrollable risk factors - circumstances that can affect a person’s health that they cannot control or do anything about
Examples: Heredity, Age, Gender, Race

13. Risks and consequences
Ch. 1, Lesson 3, p
Risks and consequences
Big Idea: Risk behaviors can have a serious impact on your health – can have significant short-term and long-term consequences.
Cumulative risks – related risks that increase in effect with each added risk. Note: Risks can accumulate over time, and other behaviors can add to each other (multiple risks behaviors).
Example: The longer the person smokes, the greater the chances
are they will develop lung cancer and heart disease. (Time = cumulative
risk.)
Example: If you smoke, are obese, and don’t exercise, these are cumulative risks for lung cancer and heart disease. (Multiple factors = cumulative risk).
Think of three cumulative risk behaviors for heart disease.
Big Idea: You can take action to reduce your exposure to health risks.
Lifestyle factors - the personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives. These habits can positively or negatively affect level of health.

14. Lesson 4: Promoting health and wellness
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Lesson 4: Promoting health and wellness
Main Idea: Individual, family, community, and national health require planning and responsible behavior on everyone’s part.
Facts:
Health care costs could be avoided if people made healthier decisions about the way they live.
Educating the public is the key to creating a healthier nation.
Healthy People Nationwide health promotion plan designed to improve health of all people in United States and eliminate health disparities.
Health disparities - the differences in health outcomes among groups of people.