This document contains information about leading a healthy life, including the six components of health and influences on wellness. It discusses taking charge of one's wellness through knowledge, lifestyle choices, and attitude. Society addresses health problems through medical advances, technology, public policy, and education. The document emphasizes that knowledge is useless without positive health behavior and action.

1. Chapter 1: Leading a
Healthy Life
Section 1: Health and Teens
Section 2: Health and Wellness
Section 3: Health in Your Community

2.  Knows:
◦ The major causes of death in the past
compared with the causes of death today.
◦ The difference between controllable risk factors
and uncontrollable risk factors.
◦ The major causes of death for teens compared
to those of other age groups.
◦ The six health risk behaviors that lead to
health problems in teens.

3.  Do’s:
◦ Read pages 6-10
◦ Name three behaviors you can adopt now to
improve your health (Life Skill).
◦ Define the Key Terms:
 Lifestyle Disease
 Risk Factor
 Sedentary

4.  Do’s:
◦ What’s Your Health IQ? Page 4
◦ Analyzing DATA page 9
◦ What risk behaviors do you think are the most
common at JCHS?
◦ Homework

5. Chapter 1: Leading a
Healthy Life
Section 2: Health and Wellness
Section 3: Health in Your Community

6.  Knows:
◦ The six components of health.
◦ The importance of striving for optimal health.
◦ Influences on wellness.
◦ Ways to take charge of your wellness.
◦ Four ways society addresses health problems.
◦ “HEALTH KNOWLEDGE IS USELESS WITHOUT
POSITIVE HEALTH BEHAVIOR. YOU MUST PUT
WHAT YOU KNOW INTO ACTION FOR IT TO
WORK!”

7.  Do’s:
◦ Define the key terms:
 Health
 Value
 Wellness
 Health Literacy
 Public Health
 Advocate
 Public Service Announcement (PSA)

8.  Do’s:
◦ Name two ways you can improve two
components of your health.
◦ What is character? Why is good character
important?
◦ List three ways you can promote an issue to
improve the health of others.

9. Six Components of Health
 Physical Health
◦ Refers to the way your body functions.
◦ You don’t have to be an athlete or even good
at sports to be physically healthy.
◦ Includes eating right, getting regular exercise
and being at your recommended body weight.
◦ Avoiding drugs and alcohol
◦ Being free of disease and sickness

10.  Emotional Health
◦ Expressing your emotions in a positive,
nondestructive way.
◦ Emotionally healthy people can cope with
unpleasant emotions and NOT get
overwhelmed by them.
◦ Are YOU aware of how you feel?
◦ Where can you go for support?

11.  Social Health
◦ The quality of your relationships with friends,
family, teachers and others you are in contact
with.
◦ Respects others
◦ Supportive relationships
◦ Expresses needs to others
◦ Stays clear of those who do not treat him/her
with respect and tolerance.
◦ Able to work out disagreements calmly

12.  Mental Health
◦ The ability to recognize reality and cope with
the demands of daily life.
◦ High self-esteem
◦ Enjoys trying new things.
◦ Free of mental illness

13.  Spiritual Health
◦ Maintaining harmonious relationships with
other living things and having spiritual
direction and purpose.
◦ Includes living according to one’s ethics,
morals and values.
 Ethics is defined as the standards of conduct and
moral judgment.
 Morals is defined as being able to make the
distinction between right and wrong.

14.  Environmental Health
◦ Keeping your air and water clean, your food
safe and the land around you enjoyable and
safe.
◦ Made up of the living and nonliving things in
your world.
◦ YOUR environment is YOUR surroundings.
◦ Constantly changing.

15. Wellness: Striving or Optimal
Health
 Optimal Health
 Improved Health
 Average Health
 Illness
 Death
 The wellness continuum shows that wellness
is about ALWAYS striving for optimal health,
even though most people are never
completely healthy.

16.  Many components of health can be
affected by the other components.
 Why?

17. Influences on Your Wellness
 Hereditary Influences
◦ The traits you inherit from your parents
 Social Influences
◦ Peer pressure
◦ Family
◦ teachers
 Cultural Influences
◦ Culture is the values, beliefs and practices shared by
people that have a common background.
◦ Culture can strongly influence your health!
◦ Why?
 Environmental Influences
◦ Pollutants, safety regulations and the availability of
medical care.

18. Taking Charge of Your Wellness
 IF NOT YOU, WHO?
 Knowledge
◦ keep up with current health issues
◦ Family health history
 Lifestyle
◦ Make behavioral changes in your lifestyle
 Attitude
◦ A person’s way of thinking greatly affects a person’s
health.
◦ Why?
◦ A POSITIVE attitude is KEY!

19. Four Ways Society Addresses
Health Problems
 Medical Advances
◦ Medical research
 Technology
◦ The use of computers, lasers and other
revolutionary technologies, new and better products
have been made to help people lead healthier lives.
 Public Policy
◦ Congress passes laws that provide funds for
research on diseases such as diabetes.
 Education
◦ Health education is a key factor in the prevention of
disease and illness in this country.

20. What Can You Do?
 Be an advocate!
◦ We all have the potential to better our own
wellness as well as the wellness of others.
◦ Be a positive influence!
◦ ACTIONS speak louder than words!
 Get your point across!
◦ Public Service Announcements