Your Health and Wellness
The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
What is health?
This type of health has to do with how well your body functions.
What is physical health?
Actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others
What are Risk Behaviors?
Life skills, or specific tools and strategies that help you maintain protect and improve all aspects of your health
What are health skills?
Something you aim for that takes planning and work
What is a goal?
Total Health or an overall state of well-being
What is wellness?
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents.
What is heredity?
Related risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
What is cumulative risk?
What are refusal skills?
A goal that you plan to reach over an extended period of time
What is a long term goal?
List 3 Lifestyle factors that promote good health
Getting 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night.
Starting each day with a healthy breakfast.
Eating a variety of nutritious foods each day.
Being physically active for at least 20 minutes a day, three or more days a week.
Maintaining a healthy weight.
Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
Abstaining from sexual activity before marriage. Managing stress.
Maintaining positive relationships.
Practicing safe behaviors to prevent injuries.
Name 2 environmental factors that affect you health.
Physical Environment- Air pollution, Pollen, dust, smog, smoke, etc.
Social Environment- peers (positive) , peer pressure (negative) , friends, family, etc.
Not ever wearing your seat belt in the back seat is a cumulative risk. True or False?
The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving
What is conflict resolution?
Those distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
What is character?
Practicing health and safety habits to remain free of disease and injury.
What is prevention?
The various methods of communication that influence on your health.
What is media?
Avoiding harmful behaviors
What is Abstinence?
Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief.
What is advocacy?
Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for others
What is a role model?
A person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services and use these resources to promote his or her health and wellness
What is Health Literacy?
How does technology influence our health?
Advances is modern medicine and testing, treatments, clean air land and water (positive)
Technology has replaces physical activities such as driving instead of walking, watching tv and playing video games instead of going outside (negative)
Name a reason why abstaining from sexual activity as a teen is a good health choice.
Don't have to worry with unplanned pregnancy, face difficult decisions like single parenthood, extra responsibility to raise a child, STIs/ STDs, emotional problems, etc.
Name 2 health skills
Interpersonal Communication, Self management, Analyzing influences, Accessing Information, Decision Making/Goal Setting, Advocacy
Name 2 traits of good character