Lesson 3
Practicing Healthful Behaviors
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Health Behavior
• Behavior
• The way you act or choose to act in a situation
• Can be healthful, or they can put you and others at risk
• Habits
• Fixed behaviors that you use automatically
• Healthful behaviors
• Behaviors that promote health, prevent injury and premature
death, and improve the quality of the environment
• Risk behaviors
• Behaviors that threaten health, can cause injury or premature
death and harm, or destroy the environment
Health Behavior
Inventory
• Health Behavior Inventory
• Is a tool that helps a person decide how well he/she is
practicing healthful behaviors
• 6 categories of risk behaviors in teens
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Behaviors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries
Tobacco use
Alcohol and/or drug use
Sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection or other sexually
transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies
• Diet choices that contribute to disease
• Lack of physical activity
Completing a health
behavior inventory
• Go to the next clean page in your notebook
• Number your paper 1-100
• Page 28-31
Review your responses
• Plan to continue each health behavior that you
already practice
Analyze each health
behavior
• Select a behavior you are not doing that could
be an important, positive change to your
health status
• Set realistic steps to achieve this goal
• Make a health contract to develop this healthful
behavior
Health behavior
contracts
• A written plan to develop the habit of practicing a healthful
behavior
• 5 steps:
• 1. Write your name and the date
• 2. Write the healthful behavior you want to practice as a
health goal
• 3. Write specific statements that describe how this healthful
behavior reduces health risks
• 4. Make a specific plan for recording your progress.
• 5. Complete the evaluation of how the plan helped you
accomplish the health goal
• Page 32
Make your own
• Make a health behavior contract for a behavior
your are not currently doing.
• Use page 32 as a guide
Lesson 3 homework
• Inventory
• Contract
• Page 33
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