Lesson One: Take Responsibility for your Health
- Health Status: condition of a person’s body, mind, emotions, and relationships
- Ten Factors that effect health status:
- Heredity: passing of biological characteristics
- Environment: Everything around a person
- Random Event: event which a person has little or no control
- Health Care: Professional medical help a person receives
- Healthful Behavior: promotes health, prevents injury, illness, and death, improves the quality of life
- Relationships: healthful or harmful
- Decisions: good or bad
- Resistance Skills: Help a person to say no in harmful situations
- Risks: Chance a person takes that has an unknown outcome
- Resiliency: ability to adjust, recover or bounce back from difficult times
- Protective Factor: something that increases the likelihood of a positive outcome
- Risk Factor: Something that increases the likelihood of a negative outcome.
Six Categories of Risk Behaviors in Teens:
- Behaviors that result in unintentional injury or intentional injury
- Tobacco
- Alcohol/Drugs
- Sexual Behaviors
- Diet
- Lack of physical activity
- Quality of Life: How you live your life
- Wellness Scale: Shows the ranges of a quality of life
- Health Triangle: