Chapter 2 Taking Charge of your
Health.
•Building Health Skills
•Making Responsible Decisions and
Setting Goals
•Being a Health-Literate Consumer
•Managing Consumer Problems
Building Health Skills
You can develop skills that will help
you manage your health throughout
your life.
health skills
stress
interpersonal
communication
stress management
skills
refusal skills
advocacy
conflict resolution
Health skills
Specific tools and strategies
to maintain, protect, and
improve all aspects of your
health
The Health Skills
Communication
Refusal
Conflict Resolution
Accessing Information
Analyzing Influences
Practicing Healthful Behaviors
Stress Management
Advocacy
Decision Making
Goal Setting
Communication Skills
The exchange of thoughts,
feelings, and beliefs between
two or more people
Refusal skills
• Communication strategies that can
help you say No when you are
urged to take part in behaviors that
are unsafe or unhealthful or that go
against your values.
Conflict resolution
skills can help people resolve problems
in ways that are agreeable to everyone
involved.
Accessing Information
To decide whether health
information is valid, determine the
reliability of the group or individual
sharing the information.
Analyzing Influences
The more aware you are of the
various influences in your life and
how they affect you, the better
able you are to make informed
choices about your health.
Analyzing Influences
These
positive
behaviors can
contribute to
all aspects of
your health.
Self-Management Skills
Stress is a normal part of life,
but too much unrelieved stress
can lead to illnesses. That’s
why it’s important to learn
stress-management skills.
Advocacy
Advocacy allows you to share
health knowledge and promote
healthful behaviors.
•Making Responsible Decisions
and Setting Goals
You can actively promote your
well-being by making healthful
choices and setting positive
goals.
values
decision-making skills
goals
short-term goal
long-term goal
action plan
Achieving good health begins
with making responsible
decisions.
• The HELP Strategy
When weighing the options for any decision, asking yourself these questions:
H
(Healthful) Does this choice present any health risks?
E
(Ethical) Does this choice reflect what you value?
L
P
(Legal) Does this option violate any local, state,
or federal laws?
(Parent Approval) Would your parents or guardians approve
of this choice?
Steps of the Decision-Making Process
State the Situation.
List the Options.
Weigh the Possible Outcomes.
Consider Values.
Make a Decision and Act on It.
Evaluate the Decision.
Types of Goals
A short-term goal can be
accomplished fairly quickly.
A long-term goal that you
plan to reach over an
extended period of time
•Being a Health-Literate Consumer
A health literate
consumer carefully
evaluates health
products and services.
Take Charge of Your Health
Being a smart shopper is especially
important when it comes to making
choices about health products and
services.
Making Informed Choices
Being a health-literate consumer means being aware of and
knowing how to evaluate hidden messages in advertising so
you make informed purchasing decisions.
Making Informed Choices
Evaluating Products
Comparison Shopping
Evaluating Information and Services
Product Labels
•Managing Consumer Problems
Knowing how to handle
consumer problems is an
important skill to learn.
Resolving Consumer Problems
Most products have
instructions that tell you
how to use them
correctly.
Protect yourself from health fraud.
You have the power and the responsibility to
protect your health and well-being!
Health Fraud
You can consult a
registered pharmacist if
you have questions about
a product’s health claims.
Health Fraud
Look out for claims like the following:
Secret
Formula!
Miracle
Cure!
All Natural!
Overnight
Results!
Offer
Expires
Soon!