Section 1.1 What
What Is
Is Health?
Health?
Objectives
Section 1.1 What Is Health?
Health Today
Health refers to the overall well-being of your body,
your mind, and your relationships with other people.
List three components of overall health.
Explain how the choices that
people make can affect their
positions on the health continuum.
Component of Health
To achieve a high quality of life, a person must work
hard to improve all components of health.
The components of health that are important to overall
well-being are physical, mental, emotional, social,
spiritual and environmental health.
Section 1.1 What Is Health?
Section 1.1 What Is Health?
Physical Health
• Physical health refers to how well
your body functions.
• A healthy diet, regular
exercise, adequate sleep,
and proper medical and
dental care are all important
for physical health.
Mental Health
• The state of being comfortable with yourself, with
others, and with your surroundings is called mental
health.
Section 1.1 What Is Health?
Spiritual Health
Emotional Health
• Emotional health refers to how you react to events
in your life.
Social Health
• Social health refers to how well you get along with
others.
• Building healthy relationships with family and friends
is important for social health.
Section 1.1 What Is Health?
A Continuum of Health
Spiritual Health is not only religion,
it’s about finding meaning and purpose in your life,
discovering who you truly are and connecting with the
sources that provide you inner strength, comfort, hope
and inner peace.
Environmental Health
The environmentally healthy person is conscious of
the need to use resources carefully and willingly takes
action to protect them.
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