1. Health and Wellness
Day 6
Let’s refresh our memories with the
continuums!
Go over homework sheets.
Family history
2. I can…
Understand and apply my knowledge of risk factors
(hereditary, behavioural, environmental) to my own
assessment of health.
Identify important influences on my health and describe:
a) why it is an important influence;
b) what effect this influence has on adolescents and;
c) what this means for me personally (i.e. awareness and
prevention).
Summarize and assess their behaviour Inventory and propose
SMART ways to improve.
4. Risk Factors affecting Health
Risk Factor
Explanation
Examples
Hereditary
The traits passed
biologically from
parents to child
Carrying
Environmental
The influence of the
physical and social
conditions
surrounding a person
Quality
Behavioural
Conditions resulting
from a person‟s
actions and decisions
Smoking
genes that
increase the risk of
mental illness, cancer,
diabetes, alcoholism
of drinking
water
Exposure to tobacco
smoke
Influence of friends,
family, or culture
Not
wearing seat belts
High-fat diet
Keeping feelings
“bottled up”
6. …What can you do to
improve your behavioural
risk profile?
7. After the questionnaire…
Please write a few sentences for each
dimension that talks about your behaviour
in each dimension.
What did you score and why?
How can you improve?
8. What are the factors that influence our health
behaviour?
We have explored the cultural influences on our health...
Brainstorm, discuss in pairs, and list in your books other
influences.
Internal Influences: Thoughts and emotions, such as likes and
dislikes, curiosity, fears and hereditary factors, what you feel is
right or wrong.
External Influences: Situations or settings, such as family
members, media/advertising, peers, culture/ethnicity,
geographical location, societal pressure and technology.
13. Summative Assessment: Wellness Test
Dimensions of Health
Cultural Differences of Health
Wellness Continuum
Risk Factors – behavoural, environmental, hereditary
Influences on our health – internal, external
Editor's Notes
Tuesday January 22nd, 2013Health Behaviour Inventory:
External if you are influenced by media, what about self esteem and the internal issues that are a part of why this happens? Yes you are right! This is true, but w
Summarize. Positive or negative influence on others? How about your parents, siblings?
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