Health Skills
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Shows relationships among the three kinds of
health:
1. Physical Health
2. Mental-Emotional Health
3. Family-Social Health
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Is the condition of a person’s body.
Examples: Eating healthy meals, getting
enough sleep, exercise
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Is the condition of a person’s mind and the
ways that a person expresses feelings.
Examples: reading, having challenging
conversations, and taking the time to
understand one’s feelings.
Meeting one’s own needs without interfering
with the rights of others.
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Is the condition of a person’s relationships
with family members and with others.
Examples: expressing yourself clearly, and
listening when others speak.
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Example: Expressing feelings is a skill that
helps maintain mental & emotional health.
* if this skill is lacking, the other 2 sides
are affected…
(a) physical health is affected because you
might feel stress…
(b) family-social health is affected because
you have problems expressing your
feelings.
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Health Knowledge;
Access a person has to health information,
Behavior a person practices;
Way a person responds to influences on
health, such as culture, media, & technology;
Communication skills, including resistance
skills, and conflict-resolution skills;
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The decisions a person makes;
A person’s heredity;
The quality of the environment in which a
person lives;
Random events that occur in a person’s life
and how that person deals with risks.
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The information and understanding a person
has about health.
Example: Outside in the sun for several
hours…
(a) select sunscreen and reapply on a
regular basis; (b) wear certain types of
clothing; (c) understand that UV rays are
associated with causing skin cancer.
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Two types of behaviors that can affect your
health:
1. Healthful behaviors
2. Risk behaviors
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Culture
Media
Technology
Communication Skills
Resistance Skills
Health Advocate
Protective Factor
Risk Factor
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A chance that has an unknown outcome is a
RISK.
Types of Risks:
1. Calculated Risk – a chance that someone
takes after carefully considering all the
possible outcomes.
2. Unnecessary Risk – a chance that, after
weighing all the possible outcomes, you
decide is not worth it.
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Incident over which someone has no control
over.
Objectives
ID 10 responsible values that make up good
character;
Discuss reasons why character is important; how to
practice life skills.
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Use of self-control to act on responsible
values.
What is self-control?
- degree to which a person regulates
his or her own behavior.
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A belief that guides you to act in
responsible ways:
- honesty
- determination
- fairness
- courage
- respect
- citizenship
- self-discipline
- responsibility
- abstinence from sex
-integrity
- self-respect
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A person’s overall character as judged by
other people.
Temptations …
What are they?
How can they affect your
reputation?
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Your inner sense of right & wrong.
“gut feeling”
Examples: friend wants you to cheat,
steal, or lie … etc
1. Choose the best way to communicate.
2. Express your thoughts & feelings clearly.
3. Listen to the other person.
4. Make sure you understand each other.
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Nonverbal Communication:
- use of actions or body language to
express emotions & thoughts.
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Active Listening:
- the way you respond in a conversation to show
that you hear & understand what the speaker is
saying.
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Skills that help a person say “no” to an action
or to leave a situation that they feel or know
is dangerous or illegal.
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Say “no” with confidence.
Give reasons for saying “no”.
Repeat “no”.
Use nonverbal behavior to match your verbal
behavior.
Avoid certain situations & people.
Influence others to make responsible
decisions.
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Self-Confidence is the belief in oneself.
** when your behavior is self-confident & assertive
you show others that you are in control of yourself
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Assertive Behavior: honest expression of
ideals, feelings, & decisions without worrying
about what others think or without feeling
threatened by the reactions of others.
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Passive Behavior
* the holding back of ideas, feelings, &
decisions.
Example: don’t stand up for themselves, make excuses,
look away or laugh when sharing feelings or making
decisions. Lack self-confidence.
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Aggressive Behavior
* use of words or actions that are disrespectful
toward others.
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Example: interrupt others or monopolize a conversation;
others cruel names or threaten b/c they lack selfconfidence.
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Pattern of behavior a person uses in a conflict
situation.
Person may use one or a combination of the
following styles:
* conflict avoidance
* conflict confrontation
* conflict resolution
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Remain calm
Set a positive tone
Define the conflict
Take responsibility for personal actions
Listen to the needs & feeling of others
List & evaluate possible solutions
Agree on a solution
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Be respectful
Keep your word & follow the agreement that
you made
Ask for assistance if the agreement seems to
be falling apart.
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Commercials…
The average American child may
view up to 40,000 commercials on
television each year.
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Identify people/things that might influence
you.
Evaluate how the influence might affect your
health behavior & decisions.
Choose positive influences on health.
Protect yourself from negative influences on
health.
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Media: Mass Communication
Advertisement: Paid announcement about a
product or a service
Commercial: Advertisement on TV or radio
Technology: High-tech equipment to
communicate information
Media Literacy: Recognizing & evaluate the
influence of messages in media
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Culture:
Arts, beliefs, & customs that make up a
way of life for a group of people at a certain
time.
When you are looking at the ads in a
newspaper, magazine, or catalog, keep in
mind that photographers work for hours to
create the perfect photos in which all the
models look attractive and happy.
1. Brand Loyalty: One brand is better than another.
2. False Image: Certain image by using a particular
product or a service.
3. Bandwagon: “Everyone” is using this brand…
4. Humor: “hook” to purchase the product.
5. Glittering Generality: Exaggerated appeal that
gets to your emotions. Product will take
care of “your needs”.
6. Scientific Evidence:
Uses data to “convince”
that product is the best.
7. Progress: The “latest” version is the BEST.
8. Reward: Offers a special prize, gift, or coupon.
9. Sex: Brand will make you more attractive & alluring
beyond your wildest dreams.
10. Testimonial:
Uses a spokesperson, who is sometimes
“famous”, to name the benefits of the product/service.
Unit 1
Lesson 6
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Health Goal:
- a healthful behavior a person works to
achieve & maintain.
2 Types: (a) short-term health goal
* period of time …
(b) long-term health goal
* lifetime …
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Write your health goal.
Make an action plan to meet your goal.
Identify obstacles to your plan.
Set up a timeline to accomplish your goal.
Keep a chart or diary in which you record
your progress toward your goal.
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Build a support system
Revise your action plan or timeline, if
necessary
Reward yourself when you reach your goal!
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Goal 1: To increase quality and years of
healthy life
Life Expectancy: average number of years that people are
expected
to live.
1900’s: average age of death: 47.3 years
2000’s: life expectancy from birth: 77 years
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Goal 2: To eliminate health disparities in
the population
Example of disparities: gender, race, education, income level,
disability
status, sexual orientation, and whether a person lives in a
urban or
rural area.
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Physical activity
Overweight & Obesity
Tobacco use
Substance abuse
Responsible sexual behavior
Mental health
Injury & violence
Environmental quality
Immunization
Access to medical care
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Inactive decision-making style:
- person that fails to make choices
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Reactive decision-making style:
- a habit in which a person allows others to make his or her
decisions
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Proactive decision-making style:
- a person that describes the situation, identifies & evaluates
possible decisions, makes a decision, and takes
responsibilities for the outcome.
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Describe the situation that requires a
decision
List possible decisions you might make
Share the list with a responsible adult
Ask if the decision: promotes health, is safe,
follows laws, shows respect to you and
others, promote your morals/values, and
does it show good character?
5. Decide which decision is most responsible
and appropriate.
6. Act on your decision, and evaluate the
results.
Wrong Decision: is a choice that can lead to
actions that harm health, are unsafe, illegal,
show disrespect for self & others, and show a
lack of good character.
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Take responsibility & admit you
made a mistake.
** don’t make excuses … wrong is wrong.
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Do not continue actions based
upon the wrong decision.
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Discuss the wrong decision with
a responsible adult.
Make restitution for harm done
to others.
Restitution: is making up for any loss,
damage, or harm you have caused. (pay
money, or volunteer time to make things
right)