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Factors that can influence health include
• heredity
• environment
• media
• technology
• healthcare
• behavior
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• Advances in technology help doctors to detect health problems sooner and improve the quality of life for patients.
• Some Web sites provide accurate information about health.
• Others are filled with misleading or self-serving information.
• Be sure to consider the source of the information on a Web site and the purpose of the site.
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• Healthcare includes the medical services provided by doctors, nurses, dentists, and therapists.
• Healthcare also includes the places these people work, such as clinics and hospitals.
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A risk factor is any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome.
• Consider both short- and long-term consequences.
• Decide whether you can control the risk factor.
• Analyze the possible benefits and risks of a decision.
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• Some behaviors can have an immediate effect on your health.
• With some risky behaviors, the consequences are not immediate.
• It can be very difficult to change habits that have existed for years. Even if you do change your risky behaviors later in life, you may not be able to repair the damage you may have done to your body.
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• You can’t control the color of your skin or other risk factors that are part of your heredity.
• Nor can you control all the risk factors in your environment.
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You can control these risk factors that are related to your behavior.
• your level of physical activity
• your intake of fat, sugar, or salt
• your use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
• your use to protective gear, such as seat belts
• your choice of friends
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• Without taking risks and trying new things, it would be impossible to grow as a person.
• You need to weigh the risks of an action against the possible benefits.
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At your table, read the situations below and identify the health risk for each situation. Decide what you could do to reduce the risk.
You are going to a party where you know people will be
Drinking alcohol and using drugs.
You are out with friends who choose to have lunch in a
Fast-food restaurant.
A person at school has been spreading false rumors about
You, which is making you very angry.
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Objectives
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.
Switch to QuickTake version of the quiz.
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The graph shows causes of death for young people in the United States. *Other injuries: Poisoning, Drowning,
Fall, Fire/Burn, etc.
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There are three steps you can take to help meet your personal health goals
• gaining awareness
• gaining knowledge
• building skills
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You must first be able to recognize a health problem before you can do anything about it.
• The next step is to learn about the problem.
• Most importantly, you need to learn about risk factors, especially those related to behavior.
Knowledge isn’t very useful if you do not have the skills to apply it.
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Accessing Information You need to know how to find and evaluate health information.
Communicating Good communication skills allow you to resolve conflicts.
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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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.
Practicing Healthful Behaviors You need to develop strategies for maintaining healthy behaviors and reducing risky behaviors.
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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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prevention Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes. values The standards and beliefs that are most important to you. action plan A series of specific steps you can take to achieve a goal.
advocacy The use of communication to influence and support others in making positive health decisions.
health literacy The ability to gather, understand, and use health information to improve one’s health.
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• There is a process, called DECIDE, that can help you think through decisions.
• This process is easy to remember because each letter in the word DECIDE stands for a step in the process.
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The
Process efine the problem.
Consider the decision you are facing, and state the issue clearly.
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Process xplore the alternatives.
Make a list of possible alternatives for solving your problem.
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Process onsider the consequences.
One by one, think through what might happen if you were to choose each alternative on your list.
• Include both positive and negative results.
• Consider what probably would happen, not what you hope would happen.
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Process dentify your values.
• Consider your long-term goals as well as the beliefs or your family and culture.
• Consider your own and others’ health and safety, and your self-respect.
• Identify those choices that are a good match for your values.
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Process ecide and act.
• Use the information you have collected to compare the alternatives. Decide which one is best for you.
• Make a plan to act on your decision.
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Process valuate the results.
Sometime after you have put your decision into effect, take some time to review it.
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Suppose your best friend asks you to go on a camping trip. Later, you discover that a group of students known for abusing drugs are also going. Next to each statement, write the word for the appropriate step in the DECIDE process.
explore a. You consider going camping at a different time or to a different location.
evaluate b. When you return from the trip, you and your friend discuss identify define decide consider the trip and decide to go camping again sometime.
c. You believe that drug use is dangerous and you do not want to be around people who use drugs.
d. You do not know whether to go on the camping trip.
e. You and your friend choose to go camping at a different location.
f. You worry that your friend might be upset if you do not go with the other students.
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