1. Chapter 1: Leading a
Healthy Life
Section 1: Health and Teens
Section 2: Health and Wellness
Section 3: Health in Your Community

2.  Knows:
◦ The major causes of death in the past
compared with the causes of death today.
◦ The difference between controllable risk factors
and uncontrollable risk factors.
◦ The major causes of death for teens compared
to those of other age groups.
◦ The six health risk behaviors that lead to
health problems in teens.

3.  Do’s:
◦ Read pages 6-10
◦ Name three behaviors you can adopt now to
improve your health (Life Skill).
◦ Define the Key Terms:
 Lifestyle Disease
 Risk Factor
 Sedentary

4.  Do’s:
◦ What’s Your Health IQ? Page 4
◦ Analyzing DATA page 9
◦ What risk behaviors do you think are the most
common at JCHS?
◦ Homework

5. Chapter 1: Leading a
Healthy Life
Section 2: Health and Wellness
Section 3: Health in Your Community

6.  Knows:
◦ The six components of health.
◦ The importance of striving for optimal health.
◦ Influences on wellness.
◦ Ways to take charge of your wellness.
◦ Four ways society addresses health problems.
◦ “HEALTH KNOWLEDGE IS USELESS WITHOUT
POSITIVE HEALTH BEHAVIOR. YOU MUST PUT
WHAT YOU KNOW INTO ACTION FOR IT TO
WORK!”

7.  Do’s:
◦ Define the key terms:
 Health
 Value
 Wellness
 Health Literacy
 Public Health
 Advocate
 Public Service Announcement (PSA)

8.  Do’s:
◦ Name two ways you can improve two
components of your health.
◦ What is character? Why is good character
important?
◦ List three ways you can promote an issue to
improve the health of others.

9. Six Components of Health
 Physical Health
◦ Refers to the way your body functions.
◦ You don’t have to be an athlete or even good
at sports to be physically healthy.
◦ Includes eating right, getting regular exercise
and being at your recommended body weight.
◦ Avoiding drugs and alcohol
◦ Being free of disease and sickness

10.  Emotional Health
◦ Expressing your emotions in a positive,
nondestructive way.
◦ Emotionally healthy people can cope with
unpleasant emotions and NOT get
overwhelmed by them.
◦ Are YOU aware of how you feel?
◦ Where can you go for support?

11.  Social Health
◦ The quality of your relationships with friends,
family, teachers and others you are in contact
with.
◦ Respects others
◦ Supportive relationships
◦ Expresses needs to others
◦ Stays clear of those who do not treat him/her
with respect and tolerance.
◦ Able to work out disagreements calmly

12.  Mental Health
◦ The ability to recognize reality and cope with
the demands of daily life.
◦ High self-esteem
◦ Enjoys trying new things.
◦ Free of mental illness

13.  Spiritual Health
◦ Maintaining harmonious relationships with
other living things and having spiritual
direction and purpose.
◦ Includes living according to one’s ethics,
morals and values.
 Ethics is defined as the standards of conduct and
moral judgment.
 Morals is defined as being able to make the
distinction between right and wrong.

14.  Environmental Health
◦ Keeping your air and water clean, your food
safe and the land around you enjoyable and
safe.
◦ Made up of the living and nonliving things in
your world.
◦ YOUR environment is YOUR surroundings.
◦ Constantly changing.

15. Wellness: Striving or Optimal
Health
 Optimal Health
 Improved Health
 Average Health
 Illness
 Death
 The wellness continuum shows that wellness
is about ALWAYS striving for optimal health,
even though most people are never
completely healthy.

16.  Many components of health can be
affected by the other components.
 Why?

17. Influences on Your Wellness
 Hereditary Influences
◦ The traits you inherit from your parents
 Social Influences
◦ Peer pressure
◦ Family
◦ teachers
 Cultural Influences
◦ Culture is the values, beliefs and practices shared by
people that have a common background.
◦ Culture can strongly influence your health!
◦ Why?
 Environmental Influences
◦ Pollutants, safety regulations and the availability of
medical care.

18. Taking Charge of Your Wellness
 IF NOT YOU, WHO?
 Knowledge
◦ keep up with current health issues
◦ Family health history
 Lifestyle
◦ Make behavioral changes in your lifestyle
 Attitude
◦ A person’s way of thinking greatly affects a person’s
health.
◦ Why?
◦ A POSITIVE attitude is KEY!

19. Four Ways Society Addresses
Health Problems
 Medical Advances
◦ Medical research
 Technology
◦ The use of computers, lasers and other
revolutionary technologies, new and better products
have been made to help people lead healthier lives.
 Public Policy
◦ Congress passes laws that provide funds for
research on diseases such as diabetes.
 Education
◦ Health education is a key factor in the prevention of
disease and illness in this country.

20. What Can You Do?
 Be an advocate!
◦ We all have the potential to better our own
wellness as well as the wellness of others.
◦ Be a positive influence!
◦ ACTIONS speak louder than words!
 Get your point across!
◦ Public Service Announcements