This document discusses the three elements of health: physical, mental/emotional, and social. It provides examples of each element, such as exercising and eating nutritious foods for physical health, accepting responsibility and developing higher thinking skills for mental/emotional health, and communicating well and showing respect for social health. The document also discusses lifestyle factors that can affect health, such as getting enough sleep, eating breakfast, and refraining from smoking. Maintaining good health involves balancing all three elements through preventing disease and practicing healthy habits daily.
4. Health-
• The combination of physical,
mental/emotional, and social well being
Not an absolute state
Being healthy means knowing various
strategies when making decisions related to
health needs and risks of young adults
5. Physical Health
• They way parts and systems of your body work
together
Mental and Emotional Health
• The way you feel about yourself and relate to
others
Social Health
• The way you get along with others
6. Physical Health- How well your body
functions
Good physical health provides simplicity in
dealing with the activities of daily life, and to resist
diseases, and avoid injury.
What are examples of things you can do
for good physical health?
7. Mental/Emotional Health- Includes feelings
about yourself, how well you relate to others,
and how well you meet the demands of
everyday life.
People who have good mental/emotional health enjoy
challenges and learning, understand that mistakes
encourage growth, accept responsibility and develop
higher thinking skills
What are some ways to tell if you have good
Mental/ Emotional health?
8. Social Health- Involves the way you get
along with others.
• Includes the ability to make and keep friends. It
also involves communicating well and showing
respect for yourself and others.
What are way people express good social
health?
9. Consists of the three
elements of health
• Physical
• Mental/emotional
• Social
10. Your health is not an absolute state it
can change rapidly depending on
every day activity.
11. What are the three
sides of the health
triangle and an
example of each
13. Loss of Health
and Wellness
Improved
Health and
Wellness
Lack of energy,
inattention, minor
ache and pains
Premature
Death
High
Level of
Health
Chronic
Disorders
Free from
aches and
pains
Optimal level
of energy,
feeling of well
being
Moderate
level of
energy
Wellness- An overall state of well-being, or total health
14. Lifestyle Factors- Personal behaviors related
to the way a person lives.
• Decisions made daily affect your health.
15. Get between 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night
Eat nutritious foods from the various food groups
Refrain from smoking and using tobacco products
Eat breakfast daily
Do 20 to 30 minutes of non stop vigorous activity a
minimum of three times a week
Do not use alcohol or other drugs
Maintain your recommended weight
16. Prevention-
• Practicing healthy habits to keep a person well and
free from disease
What are some preventive measures that
you practice daily?
19. Heredity-
All the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your
parents
Environment-
The sum of your surroundings, such as your family,
neighborhood, school, job, and your life experiences
Peers-
People of the same age who share similar interests. Includes your
friends and classmates.
Culture-
The collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group. This
group may be an ethnic group, a community, a nation, or a
specific part of the world.
20. Physical Environment
• Where you go everyday
Social Environment
• Who you come in contact with
Cultural Environment
• Collective beliefs, customs and behavior of a group
23. Risk Factors-
• Actions or behaviors that represent a potential
health threat
24. 33% of teens interviewed smoked
cigarettes
36% admitted to being in a physical fight
during the previous year
25. Cumulative Risks- related risks that increase
in effect with each added risk
• EX: smoking and bad diet
Cumulative risks may also result from a
combination of risk factors
• Give an example of combination risk factors???
26. It is important to understand what behaviors may
cause you or others harm
You must be aware of the consequences of your
choices and behaviors
Risk Behaviors- actions that can potentially
threaten your health or the health of others
27. Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs-
• you avoid many negative consequences
including physical, and psychological effects
• addiction
• bodily harm
• even death
28. Sexual Activity
• Never have to worry about unplanned
pregnancy- 100% effective
• Do not have to worry about STI
• Free from emotional problems that accompany
sex: guilt, regret, rejection, confusion
• Making choices that are always legal
Editor's Notes
Vocabulary words will appear in Red so you know when we come across one
If you could have 3 wishes what would you wish for?
Call on a few students to see what they say
Would your wishes stay they same if you had an incurable disease?
Why do people take their health for granted when it is perhaps the most precious gift of all?
Can your health change from day to day?
Give an example
What are example of things you can do for food physical health?
Proper nutrition
Regular physical activity
Enough rest
Good hygiene
Medical checkups
Paying attention to what you put in your body
What are some ways to tell if you have good Mental and Emotional Health
Use your mind to develop thinking skills
Enjoy learning
See mistakes as opportunities to learn, grow and change
Take responsibilities for their actions
Stand up for their beliefs
In touch with your feelings
Can handle stress of life without getting overwhelmed
People with good Social Health can?
The way you get along with others
Ability to make and keep friends
Ability to work, play, cooperate with others
Good communication with others
Respecting and caring for yourself and others
When one side of the triangle receives to much attention the other sides of the triangle change as well.
There are very seldom times when your health triangle is balanced.
Same with the other categories
People on the left side of the continuum usually do not take responsibility for maintaining their own health
People on the right side of the continuum usually exhibit a high degree of responsibility, discipline, and positive direction in life. They accept responsibility for maintaining their own health
People usually function below the wellness midpoint
Since the health continuum is always moving you can go to sleep at one point and wake up at another. Since the change can be very gradual you might not be fully aware of some changes
What are some factors that might change your level of wellness?
What lifestyle factors may be dangerous?
Drinking
Your Attitude and Your Health-
For you to want to be healthy you have to understand they benefits you will see in return to being healthy.
What are some benefits of being healthy?
Studies have shown that people who are optimist (people who tend to see the positive in situations) are less likely to suffer illness and die young compared to pessimistic (people who look for and see negative in situations)
Studies have also shown that it is now what happens to a person but that person attitude and responding behaviors that determine how well that person will cope and how happy he or she will be
What are some preventive measures you practice regularly?
Seatbelts
Wearing protective eye covering
Sunscreen
Avoiding unsafe areas
Physical Environment-
What is in your environment?
Parks
Schools
Home
Work
Social Environment-
To what extent can you control your own environment?
You can choose your friends,
Which aspects can you not control?
Family, Neighbors,
Family
Friends
Teachers
Coaches
Peers
Cultural Environment-
Ethnic group
Community
Nation
Entire section of a globe
If you family has a history of cardiovascular disease, does this mean you must “ follow in their footsteps”
You can reduce your chances of developing the condition through positive choices and habits
What can you do to reduce you chances?
Reduce intake of fried foods
Reduce intake of high fat foods
Exercise
The CDC conducts nationwide surveys of Americans youth in the following catogories
Behaviors that contribute to unintentional and intentional injuries
Tobacco Use
Alcohol and other drug use
Sexual behaviors
Unhealthy eating behaviors
Physical inactivity
Activity
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Speeding and not wearing a seat belt
Drinking and driving
Riding a bike on a main street and not wearing a helmet