UNIT 1 – TOTAL HEALTH
WHAT IS TOTAL HEALTH?
TOTAL HEALTH
CONTENT OBJECTIVE: THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE THREE COMPONENTS OF THE HEALTH TRIAD WHILE USING IT TO
EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OF TOTAL HEALTH ON AN EXIT SLIP.
LANGUAGE OBJECTIVE: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO CREATE THEIR OWN DEFINITION OF TOTAL HEALTH THAT INCLUDES THE
ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS ON AN EXIT SLIP.
GROUP WORK FROM LAST CLASS…
• Take 5-10 minutes to add any additional characteristics you have
thought of between last class and now.
• We will conclude with a class discussion on what was included on
each drawing and how it represents wellness
HEALTH TRIAD COMPONENTS
• Based on what you included in
your project, what do you
think make up the three
components of the health
triad?
HEALTH TRIAD
Family
/Social
Physical
Mental/Emotional
Why a triangle?
• Each relationship forms a point of the triangle with each side supporting
the other sides.
WHAT IF A COMPONENT OF THE HEALTH TRIAD IS
MISSING?
• When one is out of balance, need to learn skills to regain
balance
• Having poor health in one area can effect the other areas.
• What examples can you think of?
• Someone persuading you to smoke a cigarette is caused by lack of
resistance skills in the area of mental/emotional health but it also
harms your physical health from smoking.
DEFINITIONS
• Health – The quality of life that includes physical, mentalemotional and family-social health.
• Wellness – The quality of life that results from a person’s
health status.
• Physical Health – The condition of the body.
• Mental-Emotional Health – The condition of the mind and
the ways that a person expresses feelings.
• Family-Social Health – The condition of one’s relationship
with family members and others.
PHYSICAL HEALTH
• Talk with someone sitting near you:
• What can you do to enhance or maintain your physical health?
• What are examples of being physically healthy?
MENTAL-EMOTIONAL HEALTH
• Talk with someone sitting close
to you:
• What can you do to enhance or
maintain your mental-emotional
health?
• What are examples of being
mental-emotionally healthy?
FAMILY-SOCIAL HEALTH
• Talk with someone sitting close to
you:
• What can you do to enhance or
maintain your family-social health?
• What are examples of being familysocially healthy?
OTHER TYPES OF WELLNESS
• Intellectual Wellness: Involves having a mind open to new ideas
and concepts.
• Intellectual wellness = seeking new experiences and challenges
• Spiritual Wellness: State of harmony with yourself and others
• Occupational Wellness: Able to enjoy what you do to earn a living
and contribute to society.
• Examples: Going to college, being a doctor, construction manager, accountant,
learning a trade, carpenter, plumber, electrician
OTHER TYPES OF WELLNESS CONT.
• Environmental Wellness – Desire to
respect the delicate balanced
between the environment and
yourself.
• Examples: Respecting living things and
respecting the physical environment.
WELLNESS
• Wellness is a dynamic process that takes into
account all the decisions we make in a day.
• Every choice we make potentially affects
health and wellness.
• What choices do you make that can potentially
affect your heath?
• What diseases are known to be caused by the
decisions you make in terms of your health?
HEALTH RISK FACTORS
• What factors contribute to being
unhealthy that you can control?
• Think behavioral factors
• What factors may predispose you to being
unhealthy?
• Think genetic and demographic
• Are there factors that are predisposed but
enhanced by your choices?
• Think environmental and biomedical
Factors of Total Health
Controllable Factors
Uncontrollable Factors