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Lesson 4
Promoting Health and Wellness
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The Importance of Health Education
• Health Education– Providing accurate health information and
teaching health skills to help people make healthy decisions
– Understanding health information and learning health skills empower people to live healthfully and improve their quality of life
– $7,600 per person/$2.3 trillion each year on health care
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The Nation’s Health Goals
• Healthy People – A nationwide health promotion and disease
prevention plan designed to serve as a guide for improving the health of all people in the United States
– It is revised every 10 years with new goals, we are in the final year Health People 2010
– Planning is underway for 2020
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Goals of Health People 2020
• General:– Increase quality and length of life for all
Americans– Remove differences in health outcomes that
result from factors such as gender, race, education, disability, and location
• Health Disparities– Differences in health outcomes among groups
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Becoming Health Literate
• Know where to find health information
• Decide if the information is correct
• Assess the risks and benefits of treatment
• Figure out how much medicine to take
• Understand test results
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What You Can Do
• Health Literacy– Person’s capacity to learn about and understand
basic health information and services, and to use these resources to promote one’s health and wellness
• Qualities of a health-literate individual include being:– A critical thinker and problem solver– A responsible, productive citizen– A self-directed learner– An effective communicator
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Homework
• Read Lesson 4
• Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary #1-5 on page 25 of your text