Section 1.1 What Is Health?
What Is Health?
Objectives
Describe two factors that can be used to
evaluate overall health.
List three aspects of overall health.
Explain how the choices that people make can
affect their positions on the health continuum.
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Health Stats The graph shows data on the average life span of people
in the United States.
How did the average life span change from 1900 to 2000?
What are some possible reasons for this trend?
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Health Today
Health refers to the overall well-being of your body,
your mind, and your relationships with other people.
Life Expectancy
The number of years a person can expect to live is called life
expectancy.
Quality of Life
• Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a
person gets from life.
• High quality of life can be a person’s goal.
• A goal is a result that a person aims for and works hard
to reach.
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Aspects of Health
• To achieve a high quality of life, a person must work
hard to improve all aspects of health.
• The aspects of health that are important to overall
well-being are physical health, mental and emotional
health, and social health.
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Physical Health
• Physical health refers to how well your body
functions.
• A healthy diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and
proper medical and dental care are all important for
physical health.
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Mental and Emotional Health
• The state of being comfortable with yourself, with
others, and with your surroundings is called mental
health.
• Emotional health refers to how you react to events
in your life.
• A healthy diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and
proper medical and dental care are all important for
physical health.
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Social Health
• Social health refers to how well you get along with
others.
• Building healthy relationships with family and friends
is important for social health.
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Health in the Balance
In this activity you will create a mobile that balances
the three aspects of health.
Materials
cardboard • scissors • pen or pencil • magazines
glue • string • tape
Try This
Cut out a cardboard triangle that is 8 inches on each
side. Label the sides of the triangle “Physical Health,”
“Mental and Emotional Health,” and “Social Health.”
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Health in the Balance
Carefully punch a small hole through the center of the
triangle. Thread a piece of string through the hole, then
tie a knot.
Cut pictures from magazines that show healthy
activities.
Glue each picture onto cardboard. Use string and tape to
attach each picture to the appropriate side of the
triangle.
Hang the mobile from the center string to see how well it
balances.
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Health in the Balance
Think and Discuss
Describe each of the activities in your mobile and explain
how it contributes to physical, social, or mental and
emotional health.
How well did the mobile balance? In your life, are your
physical, social, mental, and emotional health in
balance? Explain.
Describe some things you could do to improve each
aspect of your over all well-being.
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A Continuum of Health
Defining a Continuum
A continuum (kun TIN yoo um) is a gradual progression through
many stages between one extreme and another.
A Health Continuum
• One end of the continuum represents poor health (illness).
• The other end represents perfect, or ideal, health (wellness).
• Wellness is a state of high-level health.
Movement Along the Continuum
Many of the choices you make on a daily basis affect your
position on the health continuum.
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A Continuum of Health
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Vocabulary
health
The overall well-being of your body, mind, and
your relationships with other people.
life expectancy
The number of years a person can expect to
live.
quality of life
The degree of total satisfaction that a person
gets from life.
goal
physical health
A result that a person aims for and works hard to
reach.
The aspect of health that refers to how well your
body functions. When you are physically healthy
you have enough energy to carry out everyday
tasks.
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Vocabulary
mental health
emotional health
social health
continuum
wellness
The state of being comfortable with yourself,
with others, and with your surroundings.
The aspect of health that refers to how you react
to events in your life. You are emotionally
healthy when the feelings you experience are
appropriate responses to events.
The aspect of health that refers to how well you
get along with others.
A gradual progression through many stages
between one extreme and another.
A state of high-level health.
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