healthy choices: health today lawndale high school ms. mai
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HEALTHY CHOICES: Health Today
Lawndale High School
Ms. Mai
Health
What does “health” mean?
Health – a state of well-being
What defines a person’s state of well-being has changed considerable over the years
Health: Past and Present
In the past, a healthy person was someone who was considered to be free from disease
In the 1900, the leading cause of death were infectious diseases from bacteria or viruses
Ten Leading Causes of Death
T en L ead ing C auses of D eath in the U .S . (1900)
R a n k C a u s e o f d e a t h
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P n e u m o n ia / in f lu e n z a
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D ia r r h e a a n d e n t e r i t is
H e a r t d is e a s e
S t r o k e
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A c c id e n t s
C a n c e r
D ip h t h e r ia
M e n in g i t isC a u s e s in w h ic h d ie t p la y s a p a r t
C a u s e s in w h ic h a lc o h o l p la y s a p a r t
T en L ead ing C auses of D eath in the U .S . (2000)
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H e a r t d is e a s e
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A c c id e n ts
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P n e u m o n ia / in f lu e n z a
A lz h e im e r ’s d is e a s e
K id n e y d is e a s e
S e p t ic e m ia
C a u s e s in w h ic h d ie t p la y s a p a r t
C a u s e s in w h ic h a lc o h o l p la y s a p a r t
Medical Advances
Over the years, research has been able to identify many causes of life-threatening diseases
Through improved working and living conditions and new medicine, many diseases were brought under control in the last 100 years
Today, poor health is highly related to our own personal lifestyle
Medical Advances
Therefore, the health focus of today is on wellness instead of preventing infection
Wellness – a positive, whole-health approach that includes physical, intellectual, social, and emotion well-being (PISE)Wellness does not mean that you have to be the best, but it does mean striving to live your life to its fullest potential and acting in healthy ways to prevent unnecessary illness
Longevity
Controlling diseases has greatly increased the life expectancy of people around the world
Life Expectance – the measure of the average number of years that a group of people may expect to live
In the 1900, life expectancy was only 47 years. Today, as long as you maintain good health, life expectancy has increased to 78 years.
What Determines Health?
The United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) have identified 4 main factors that determine your health
1. Personal health behavior
2. Your physical environment
3. Hereditary influences
4. Quality of health-care services available
1. Personal Health Behavior
Health behaviors refers to patterns of behaviors that affect your health now and as you get older
Therefore, your personal lifestyle greatly affects the quality of your health
Good health behaviors can increase the average length of you life
Eight Good Healthy Behaviors1. Sleeping 7 to 8 hours daily
2. Eating breakfast daily
3. Rarely eating between meals
4. Maintaining a healthy weight
5. Reducing fat and salt in meals
6. Getting regular physical exercise
7. Avoiding tobacco and alcohol
8. Appropriately using only legal medication
2. Your Physical Environment
Physical Environment – your surrounding (any place you live, work, and play)
Your physical environment, including the quality of air you breath, the noise level, infected food or water, can all affect your health
3. Hereditary Influences
Heredity – the biological passing of physical traits from parents to their children
Sometimes your ability to prevent diseases may be limited by hereditary factors
Although hereditary may effect your health, the effects on your health can often be reduced by choosing responsible health behaviors
4. Quality of Health-Care Services
Regular medical and dental care can help prevent many health problems
Preventing illnesses is usually easier than curing an illness
Health
1. Personal health behavior (50%)
2. Your physical environment (20%)
3. Hereditary influences (20%)
4. Quality of health-care services available (10%)
Discuss with a partner how much you think each of the four main factors affect your health. Come up with a percentage for each of the factors.
Striving for Personal Wellness
As we now understand, the concept of health has changed a lot over the years
Remember that wellness involves physical, intellectual, social, and emotional (PISE) well-being
The key to health lies in your ability to achieve balance in all four areas of health
The 4 Factors of Health
1. Physical Wellness – health of your body (exercise, nutrition, preventive care, and avoiding abusive substances)
2. Intellectual Wellness – gathering knowledge through stimulating learning experiences (challenging your mind, solve problems)
3. Emotional Wellness – awareness and acceptance of your feelings and self-image (self-expression, self-control, self-evaluation, enthusiasm for life)
4. Social Wellness – relationships with others (make friends, cooperate with others, productive member of society)
The 4 Factors of Health
In Your Wellness Journal…
THE FOUR FACTORS OF HEALTH
Discuss each of the 4 factors of health in your life. Rate each factor on a scale of 1 to 10. Which factor is your strength? Which factor is your weakness? What is one thing you can change in your lifestyle to improve on your weakness?
Health in our Generation
Achieving personal wellness should be everyone’s goal
Healthy People 2000 was published in 1990 as a response to the concern of the well-being our our nation as a whole with 3 major goals
1. Increase the span of a healthy life
2. Reduce health differences
3. Achieve better access to health service
Healthy People 2000
Along with these 3 goals, there were also objectives in 22 areas related to health that addressed age, income, race, and gender
Healthy People 2000 was published with the goal of making the United States a healthier nation by the year 2000. Read each objective and consider what you think our current status is. Also compare 2000 and 2010’s goal.