Section 1.3 Taking Responsibility for Your Health
Taking Responsibility for Your Health
Objectives
Describe the broad goals of Healthy People
2010.
Identify three steps you can take to meet your
personal health goals.
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Quick Quiz How many of these statements accurately describe
your behaviors?
I exercise at least three times a week.
I set aside some time each day to relax.
I get about eight hours of sleep each night.
I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
I always wear a seat belt when riding in a car.
Make a connection between the number of “Yes”
answers and how responsible you are about your health.
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Healthy People 2010
• Healthy People 2010 has two broad goals.
• Increase the years of healthy life for each
American
• Eliminate differences in health based on race,
ethnic group, or income
• Healthy People 2010 includes a set of smaller goals
aimed at reducing risky health behaviors.
• A major focus of this effort is on preventiontaking action to avoid disease, injury, and other
negative health outcomes.
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The graph shows causes of death for young people in
the United States.
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A Healthy You
There are three steps you can take to help meet your
personal health goals
• gaining awareness
• gaining knowledge
• building skills
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Gaining Awareness
You must first be able to recognize a health problem
before you can do anything about it.
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Gaining Knowledge
• The next step is to learn about the problem.
• Most importantly, you need to learn about risk
factors, especially those related to behavior.
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Building Health Skills
Knowledge isn’t very useful if you do not have the
skills to apply it.
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Building Health Skills
Analyzing Influences An important skill for promoting
health is recognizing the influence culture, media, and
friends have on your health habits.
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Building Health Skills
Accessing Information You need to know how to
find and evaluate health information.
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Building Health Skills
Communicating Good communication skills allow
you to resolve conflicts.
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Building Health Skills
Making Decisions Making wise decisions is key to
protecting your health.
• This skill teaches you to consider your values.
• Your values are the standards and beliefs that are
most important to you.
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Building Health Skills
Setting Goals
• The goals you set help you translate knowledge into
behavior.
• Once you set a goal, you can develop an action
plan—a series of specific steps you can take to
achieve the goal.
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Building Health Skills
Practicing Healthful Behaviors You need to develop
strategies for maintaining healthy behaviors and
reducing risky behaviors.
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Advocacy
The skill of advocacy involves using communication to
influence and support others in making positive health
decisions.
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Achieving Health Literacy
A person with health literacy has the ability to gather,
understand, and use health information to improve his
or her health.
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Vocabulary
prevention
values
action plan
advocacy
health literacy
Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other
negative health outcomes.
The standards and beliefs that are most
important to you.
A series of specific steps you can take to
achieve a goal.
The use of communication to influence and
support others in making positive health
decisions.
The ability to gather, understand, and use health
information to improve one’s health.
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QuickTake Quiz
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