Warm up
• List some healthful behaviors
you already practice. What
healthful behaviors would you
like to add to your life?
Behaviors
• Behavior
– The way you act or choose to act in a situation.
– Behaviors can be healthful, or they can put you or others
at risk.
– They can be learned and become habit.
• Healthful behaviors
– Behaviors that promote health, prevent injury and
premature death, and improve the quality of the
environment.
– It is more beneficial to your health status to learn and
practice healthful behaviors.
Identifying Health Risks
• Every day you are faced with some degree of risk.
– Simple events such as crossing a street or using electrical
appliances, carry a degree of risk.
• Risk behaviors – actions that can potentially
threaten your health or the health of others.
• It is important to recognize that you can control
most risk behaviors.
• By understanding the risks associated with certain
behaviors, you can make safe and responsible
decisions about which risks to avoid.
Recognizing Risk Behaviors
• The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has identified six risk
behaviors that account for most of the deaths and disability
among young people under age 24.
• These risk factors can lead to heart disease, cancer, and
other serious illnesses later in life:
– Tobacco use
– Unhealthy dietary behaviors
– Inadequate physical activity
– Alcohol and other drug use
– Sexual behaviors that may result in STD’s and
unintended pregnancies
– Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and
violence.
Risks and Consequences
• Risk behaviors carry significant consequences. Both the
short-term and long-term consequences can harm your
health.
• Before you engage in risk behaviors, it’s important to
evaluate the consequences.
– For example, smoking can have immediate health consequences,
such as bad breath, yellow teeth, and headaches. The long-term
consequences of smoking can include lung cancer, emphysema, and
heart disease.
• Risks can add up over time. Cumulative risks are related
risks that increase in effect with each added risk.
– For example, eating an occasional high-fat meal at a fast food
restaurant probably won’t permanently affect your overall health.
However, if you regularly eat high-fat meals, the negative affects
accumulate and could lead to serious health problems.
Risks & Consequences
• Cumulative risks also increase when several risk
factors are combined.
• For example, using a cell phone while driving carries
risks. So does speeding. If an individual engages in
both of these risk behaviors, the chance of getting
into a car accident becomes even greater.
How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
• You can take action to reduce your
exposure to health risks.
• You can reduce health risks through
prevention:
– Taking steps to keep something from
happening or getting worse.
– For example, getting regular medical
exams and dental checkups.
How to Avoid or Reduce Risks
• You can also reduce health risks through
abstinence:
– A deliberate decision to avoid high-risk
behaviors, including sexual activity and the use
of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
• All areas of your health triangle benefit
when you prevent and abstain from high
risk behaviors.
– You protect yourself from injury and chronic
diseases, you feel good about yourself, which
strengthens your mental/emotional health and
social relationships.
Top Ten Teen Risk Behaviors
 Alcohol
 Eating Disorders
 Tobacco
 Drug Abuse
 STD’s
 Teen Pregnancy
 Obesity
 Anemia
 Depression
 Diabetes
WAKE UP
Where do you stand in terms
of your healthful behavior?
• Health Behavior Inventory
– Each of you will assess your present health status in
10 categories described by current research.
– Because the assessment is 100 questions, it is fairly
accurate. The more elements an assessment has the
more accurate it is likely to be.
– The most comprehensive medical evaluations
include 600 or more questions.
– This health appraisal uses several questions from
other appraisals and simplifies them.
Total Health Assessments
1. Take your time and be honest.
2. At the end of each section you should tally your
score in that particular section.
3. At the end of the assessment, create a bar graph
and graph your scores.
• The idea behind the graph is to see whether any area of
your health is greatly out of alignment with the others.
• Balance in all areas of health is the ultimate goal.
4. After you finish assessment and graph, write your
two highest scores and your two lowest scores on
the board so that we can get a general appraisal of
the health of the class.
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Health Behavior Contract
• A written plan that a person makes to develop the
habit of practicing a specific healthful behavior.
5 steps to follow:
1. Write your name and the date.
2. Write the healthful behavior you want to practice
as a health goal.
3. Write specific statements that describe how the
healthful behavior reduces health risks.
4. Make a specific plan for recording your progress.
5. Complete the evaluation of how the plan helped
you accomplish the health goal.
Reminder
– REMINDER: Random binder checks; make
sure your binder is organized!!
– Turn in syllabus if you have not already
done so!