Leading a Healthy Life
Objective Ch. 1:
Identify and define the major health
issues we face today and the risks
factors involved in these issues.
Define the 5 dimensions of health
and how behavior affects each
component.
Health Issues:What’s Your IQ?
1. Most deaths are caused by our behavior.
2. If you have a history of heart disease in
your family, there is nothing you can do.
3. The leading cause of death among teens is
car accidents.
4. Smoking in the single leading preventable
cause of death in the US.
5. If you are not physically sick, then you are
healthy.
Chapter 1: Vocabulary
Health: The state of well being in which all the
components of health are in balance.
Physical
Mental
Emotional
Social
Spiritual
Wellness:
The achievement of a person‘s optimal
wellness in all 5 components.
5 Components of Health
 Physical Health- Your physical characteristics
and the way your body functions
 Mental health- The ability to recognize reality
and cope with the demands of life
 Emotional health- Expressing feelings in an
appropriate way
 Social Health- Interactions with people to
build satisfying relationships
 Spiritual Health- Maintaining harmonious
relationships with other living things and having
spiritual direction and purpose
Health-Illness Continuum
 Your overall health can be illustrated by a plot
on the health-illness continuum. Your health
status on the continuum depends on how well
you attend to each of the five areas that make
up your total health picture
Warm Up
Day 2/Lesson
 What is risky behavior or a risk factor when
it comes to health behaviors?
 Describe the difference between a
controllable risk factor and an uncontrollable risk
factor? Give some examples.
 What decisions have you made over the
last couple of days that have affected your
health? (+ or -) Explain.
Influences on Your Wellness
 Hereditary: the traits you inherit from your
parents
Risk factors…focus on the controllable
 Social: your relationships you have with
others
Negative peer pressure; parents talking out problems-not
yelling
 Cultural: Culture is the values, beliefs, and
practices shared by people of the same
background.
Risk Factors
Controllable vs. Uncontrollable
 Controllable Factors- behaviors or
actions you can choose to do or not
do.
 Uncontrollable Factors- things you
can not change…
1. Heredity
2. Gender
3. Race
4. Age
Ways to Take Charge
 Health Literacy: is the knowledge of health
info needed to make good decisions
 Lifestyle: behavioral changes; put your
knowledge into action
#1 factor that controls a person level of wellness…Choices
/decisions they make
People don’t always behave in a way that shows they know what
is healthy!
 ATTITUDE
Self-esteem and social support
 Self-esteemFeeling good about
yourself and your
abilities
 Social SupportDeriving positive
feelings from
sharing life
situations with
others
Ch. 1.2- Health concerns in the
U.S.
 Communicable disease: A disease that is passed
from person to person by an organism
 Health concerns for teens
 Early 1900’s vs. today
 1900’s- Communicable diseases
 Today- Lifestyle factors
 Your choices and behaviors are part of your
lifestyle and the development of habits (both
good & bad)
 Therefore…CHOICES
#1 in what your
health will be like!
Health – Then & Now
 Crisis Health- not taking action about your
health until something happens…
illness or injury
then seeking medical help
 Preventative Health- taking action to
maintain a high level of wellness so there is
little risk of illness/injury.
Prevention: eating right, stress management
exercise, adequate sleep, support
Teen Health Issues
O
overall causes of death
10%
Inadequate
Health
care
20% Biological and
environmental factors
70% Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors
Teen Health Issues
 One in five teens in
the U.S. has at
least one serious
health problem
 Each year 3 million
teens are infected
with a STD
Teens at risk
 Each action you take has a
consequence
 Some actions have greater risk than
others
-driving drunk, talking on cell, etc.
 Teen Health Statistics on pg. 12
National Health Risks
 Causes of death in the U.S.
today
 Underlying causes of death
 33% heart disease
in the U.S. in one year
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23.9% cancer
18.2% other causes
6.6% stroke
4.3% accidents
4.2% COPD
3.5% Pneumonia and
influenza
2.3% diabetes
1.5% HIV infection
1.4% Suicide
1.2% Homicide
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Tobacco use 400,000
Poor diet/inactivity 300,000
Alcohol & other drugs 120,000
Microbial agents 90,000
Toxic agents 60,000
Firearms 35,000
Sexual behavior 30,000
Motor vehicles 25,000
National Health Risks
 Most of the premature deaths in the
U.S. can be prevented.
 If people would exercise regularly, eat
properly, have periodic medical
exams, avoid the use of tobacco, and
manage stress, more premature
deaths could be avoided
Developing Life Skills
 Health professionals and medical
professionals have now switched to
prevention as their guiding principle
to achieving wellness
 Health Risks Survey is one way to
help with prevention
Continuous Health Assessments
“Health knowledge is
useless without
positive health behavior.
You must put what you
know into Action
for it to Work!”
Santonio Holmes #10
WR - Pittsburgh Steelers
Super Bowl Champions XLIII
Chapter 2
Making Responsible
Decisions
Decisions and your health
 Responsible decision making is an
important part of health; the choices you
make give you a great deal of control
over your own health.
 Sometimes the choices you make affect
your health immediately (short-term
consequences). Other times the
consequences are not seen until many
years later (long-term consequences).
Short-term vs long-term
consequences
 Short-term consequences
of health decisions and
leading causes of death
among people ages 15-24
 Unintentional injuriesinjuries that are not the
result of purposeful acts
~14,000
 Homicide ~8,000
 Suicide ~4,500
 Cancer ~2,000
 Heart Disease ~1,000
 HIV/AIDS ~500
 Long-term consequences
of health decisions and
leading causes of death
among people ages 55-64
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Cancer ~90,000
Heart disease ~70,000
COPD ~10,000
Stroke ~10,000
Diabetes ~8,000
Unintentional Injuries
~7,000
 Each of these is often the
result of choices made
early in life
Vocabulary
 Quality of life- The degree to which a
person lives life to its fullest capacity
with enjoyment and reward.
 Unintentional injuries- Injuries that are
not the result of purposeful acts.
2.2 How to make a responsible decision
Decision-Making Model
A series of steps that helps a person
make a responsible decision.
 Step 1. State the Problem
 Step 2. List the options
 List all available options to consider
 Try talking to someone whose opinion you
trust, but don’t be persuaded by them to do
something that isn’t good for you.
Decision-Making Model cont.
 Step 3. Imagine the benefits and
consequences
 Take some time and carefully think through the
benefits and negative consequences of each of
your options that you listed in step 2
 Step 4. Consider your values
 Values- a person’s strong beliefs and ideals
 Your values allow you to choose between good
and bad, and between right and wrong. Your
values show the kind of most about.
 person you are and what you care
Decision-Making Model cont.
 Step 4. Consider your values cont.,
 A person’s values develop over time and are
influenced by the teachings of family, culture, and
religious and spiritual leaders
 Each person develops his or her own value system,
based on individual life experiences. It’s important to
realize that not everyone will share your values.
 Universal Values:
 Values that seem to be important to people from
many backgrounds and cultures.
 Honesty, trustworthiness, responsibility to
oneself and others, self-control, and social justice
*respect
Decision-Making Model cont.
 Step 5. Weigh the options and decide
 Carefully examine the possible benefits
and negative consequences of each
option
 Step 6. Act
 Step 7. Evaluate the results