• Why is it important to comprehend health
concepts related to health promotion and
prevention?
• What is a carcinogen?
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Goals/Objectives
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Draw and label the health triangle.
Discuss ten factors that affect health status.
Identify seven life skills to practice.
Discuss the steps to follow
to help you comprehend
health concepts related
to health promotion and
disease prevention.
5. Discuss four kinds of skills
needed to be a healthliterate person.
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Key Terms
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health
mental-emotional health
family-social health
health status
health knowledge
risk
random event
wellness
health concept
health-literate person
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Your Health
• Health is a collective quality of life,
that include physical, mentalemotional, and family-social health.
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What to Know About the Health Triangle
• The Health Triangle shows relationships among:
– Physical health is the condition of a
person’s body.
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What to Know About the Health Triangle
– Mental-emotional health is the condition
of a person’s mind and the ways that a
person expresses feelings.
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What to Know About the Health Triangle
– Family-social health is the condition of
a person’s relationships with family
members and with others.
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What to Know About the Health Triangle
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What to Know About the Health Triangle
• If one of the points on the Health Triangle is
missing or impaired, it can begin to lose its
balance, which can affect the other two points.
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Health Status
• Health status is the
sum of positive and
negative influences on a
person’s health and
well-being.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
1. Health knowledge
– Health knowledge is the information and
understanding a person has about health.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
2. Accessing health information, products,
and services
– When you access useful health information,
you help yourself make decisions about
products or services and choose behaviors
that will keep you healthy.
– A health service is help that is provided by a
health-care facility or a health-care provider.
– A health product is something that is used to
restore or maintain health.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
3. Behaviors
– A person’s behavior is the way a person
chooses to act or respond to a situation.
– Two types of behavior can affect health:
healthful behaviors and risk behaviors.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
Behavior Choices and Health Status
Healthful Behavior
Risk Behavior
• Promotes health
• Threatens health
• Prevents injury, illness,
and premature death
• Can cause injury, illness,
and premature death
• Improves the quality of
the environment
• Damages or destroys the
environment
• Examples: wearing a
safety belt, exercising
regularly, and eating
healthful foods
• Examples: playing sports
without safety equipment,
smoking, and drinking
alcohol
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Factors That Affect Health Status
4. Influences such as culture, media,
and technology
– Many people and circumstances affect your
health each day, including:
• Culture: the arts, beliefs, and customs that
make up a way of life for a group of people at
a certain time
• Media: various forms of mass communication
• Technology: the practical application or use
of knowledge
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Factors That Affect Health Status
5. Communication skills
– Communication skills are the ways in
which a person chooses to share feelings,
thoughts, and information with others.
• Resistance skills are methods a person can use
to say “no” to an action or situation that could
damage health status.
• Conflict-resolution skills are steps that you can
take to settle a disagreement in a responsible way.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
6. Decisions involving choices
– Many decisions you make have long-term
consequences and might cause you to take
actions that affect health status.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
TABLE 1.1 Decisions and Health Status
Responsible Decisions
Irresponsible Decisions
• Promote health
• Can harm health
• Keep safety in mind
• Result in unsafe behaviors
• Follow laws
• May be illegal
• Show respect for self
and others
• Show disrespect for self
and others
• Follow guidelines of parents
and adults
• Show disregard for guidelines
of parents and others
• Demonstrate good character • Are part of normal character
development
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Factors That Affect Health Status
7. Health-advocacy skills
– Health-advocacy skills are used to
influence the health behavior and decisions
of others and to advance health-related
beliefs and concerns.
– A health advocate is a person who
influences the health behavior and
decisions of others and advances certain
health-related beliefs and concerns.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
8. Heredity
– Heredity is the passing of characteristics or
traits from biological parents to their children.
– Inherited characteristics may be protective
factors or risk factors.
• A protective factor is something that increases
the odds of a positive outcome, such as
healthful traits.
• A risk factor is something that increases the
odds of a negative outcome, such as a risk factor
for some diseases.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
9. Your environment
– Your environment is everything around you,
including the air, the water, and the place in
which you live.
– An environment can be a protective factor
or a risk factor depending on access to
basic needs.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
10. Random events
– A random event is an incident over which a
person has little or no control.
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Factors That Affect Health Status
Health Skills to Practice for Life
You promote the health of others and the quality of the
environment when you:
• comprehend health
concepts related to health
promotion and disease
prevention;
• access information
about health products and
services;
• analyze influences on
health, such as culture,
media, technology, and
other factors;
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• practice healthful behaviors;
• use communication skills,
resistance skills, and
conflict-resolution skills;
• set goals and make
responsible decisions;
• advocate for personal,
family, and community
health.
Factors That Affect Health Status
What decisions
can you make to
protect your
health status?
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Risks and Random Events
• A risk is a chance that has an unknown
outcome.
• Risks and random events can have positive
or negative effects on health status.
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How Risks Differ From Random Events
• Risks
– A calculated risk is a chance that a person
takes after carefully considering all possible
outcomes.
– An unnecessary risk is a chance that,
after weighing all the possible outcomes,
you decide is not worth it.
• Random event
– A random event is an incident over which a
person has little or no control.
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Responsibility for Health
• Quality of life is the degree
to which a person lives life
to the fullest capacity.
• Wellness is the quality of life that
results from a person’s health status.
• The Wellness Scale is a scale that
shows the range in quality of life.
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How to Use the Wellness Scale
• Ten factors (see page 6 in your textbook) can
affect your health status and wellness.
– Factors that have a positive effect promote
optimal wellness.
– Factors that have a negative effect
increase your risk of illness, injury, and
premature death.
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How to Use the Wellness Scale
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Comprehending Health Concepts
• A health concept is a general idea formed
from an understanding of health knowledge.
• Health concepts help you apply general
ideas to real-life situations.
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How to Comprehend Health Concepts
• There are skills that you
can learn and practice that
will help you become
better at recognizing
reliable health information.
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How to Comprehend Health Concepts
TABLE 1.2 Steps to Comprehend Health Concepts Related to
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
The Plan
Developing the Life Skill
Step 1 Study health
information about
heart disease.
Use valid sources, such as health textbooks and the American
Heart Association Web site. You learn that eating broiled foods
is more healthful for the heart than eating fried foods.
Step 2 Ask questions
about heart disease
information you
don’t understand.
Ask your health teacher, physician, or other health expert why
eating broiled foods is more healthful for the heart than eating
fried foods. They tell you fried foods may contain more
saturated fats. A diet high in saturated fats increases the risk
of heart disease.
Step 3 Use health
knowledge to form health
concepts to prevent heart
disease.
The health knowledge you have learned helped you form this
concept: I can reduce my risk of heart disease by eating fewer
fried foods.
Step 4 Use this health
concept to reduce your
risk of heart disease.
When you dine out, you order broiled food instead of
fried food.
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How to Comprehend Health Concepts
• You can understand more
about any point of the
health triangle using the
same steps.
• Staying informed and
asking questions about all
aspects of your health will
lead to health literacy.
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Health Literacy
• A health-literate person is a
person who demonstrates the
skills of effective communication,
self-directed learning, critical
thinking (and problem solving),
and responsible citizenship.
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How to Attain Health Literacy
• Everyone can learn to be a
health-literate person using
effective communication,
self-directed learning, critical
thinking, and responsible
citizenship.
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How to Attain Health Literacy
• Effective communication
– Effective communication
is expressing your health
knowledge, beliefs,
and ideas.
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How to Attain Health Literacy
• Self-directed learning
– Self-directed learning is
taking personal
responsibility for gathering
and using health-related
information.
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How to Attain Health Literacy
• Critical thinking
– Critical thinking is
evaluating the facts and
examining possible
outcomes before making
decisions.
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How to Attain Health Literacy
• Responsible citizenship
– Responsible citizenship is
behaving in ways that
improve your home,
school, community,
nation, and world.
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Study Guide
1. What are the three parts of the
Health Triangle?
The three parts of the
health triangle are
physical health, mentalemotional health, and
family-social health.
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Study Guide
2. How is a risk different from a
random event?
A risk is something that you choose
whether or not to do. A random event is
an incident over which you have little or
no control.
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Study Guide
3. Can you totally control all factors of your
health and wellness? Why or why not?
No; some factors, such as heredity and
random events that occur, are out of your
control. You can work to control many
factors, such as behaviors and decisions,
that will have long-term effects on your
health status.
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Study Guide
4. Match the following descriptions to the
skills of a health-literate person.
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B self-directed learning
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A critical thinking
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D effective communication
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C responsible citizenship
A. evaluating the facts and
examining possible outcomes
before making decisions
B. taking personal responsibility
for gathering and using
health-related information
C. behaving in ways that
improve your home, school,
community, nation, and world
D. expressing your health
knowledge, beliefs, and ideas
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